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The student uses the writing process recursively to compose multiple texts that are legible and uses appropriate conventions.
Plan a first draft by selecting a genre appropriate for a particular topic, purpose, and audience using a range of strategies such as discussion, background reading, and personal interests;
Develop drafts into a focused, structured, and coherent piece of writing by:
Organizing with purposeful structure, including an introduction, transitions, coherence within and across paragraphs, and a conclusion
Developing an engaging idea reflecting depth of thought with specific facts, details, and examples;
Revise drafts for clarity, development, organization, style, word choice, and sentence variety;
Edit drafts using standard English conventions, including:
Complete complex sentences with subject-verb agreement and avoidance of splices, run-ons, and fragments;
Consistent, appropriate use of verb tenses and active and passive voice;
Prepositions and prepositional phrases and their influence on subject-verb agreement;
Pronoun-antecedent agreement;
Correct capitalization;
Punctuation, including commas in nonrestrictive phrases and clauses, semicolons, colons, and parentheses
Correct spelling, including commonly confused terms such as its/it's, affect/effect, there/their/they're, and to/two/too
Publish written work for appropriate audiences.
The student uses genre characteristics and craft to compose multiple texts that are meaningful.
Compose literary texts such as personal narratives, fiction, and poetry using genre characteristics and craft;
Compose informational texts, including multi-paragraph essays that convey information about a topic, using a clear controlling idea or thesis statement and genre characteristics and craft;
Compose multi-paragraph argumentative texts using genre characteristics and craft
Compose correspondence that reflects an opinion, registers a complaint, or requests information in a business or friendly structure.

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