Ms. Shields' Class

ELA Skills Introduced in the 1st Quarter

  1. Correctly identifies and uses subject/verb agreement and adjectives.
  2. Identifies and uses nouns (singular, plural, possessive) correctly.
  3. Speaks and writes in complete and coherent sentences.
  4. Distinguishes between complete and incomplete sentences.
  5. When appropriate, determines the meaning of a word based on how it is used in a sentence.
  6. Uses the dictionary and thesaurus to support word choices.
  7. Uses common rules of spelling and corrects words using dictionaries and other resources.
  8. Uses appropriate capitalization and punctuation (end marks, commas, apostrophes, quotation marks).
  9. Writes legibly in cursive, leaving space between letters in a word and between words in a sentence.
  10. Writes text of a length appropriate to address the topic or tell the story.
  11. Begins to use appropriate structures to ensure coherence (e.g., transition words and phrases, bullets, subheadings, numbering).
  12. Begins to use descriptive adjectives and verbs to communicate setting, character, and plot.
  13. Prewrites to generate ideas, develops a rough draft, rereads to revise, and edits to correct.
  14. Publishes by presenting an edited piece of writing to others.
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