Composition

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 and details;

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;

Conjunctive adverbs;

Prepositions and prepositional phrases and their influence on subject-verb agreement;

Pronouns, including relative;

Subordinating conjunctions to form complex sentences and correlative conjunctions such as either/or and neither/nor;

Capitalization of proper nouns, including abbreviations, initials, acronyms, and organizations;

Punctuation marks, including commas in complex sentences, transitions, and introductory elements

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.