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publish written work for appropriate audiences.

verb tense such as simple past, present, and future and imperfect past, past participle, perfect, and conditional, including the difference between ser and estar;

singular, plural, common, and proper nouns, including gender-specific articles;

compose literary texts, including personal narratives and poetry, using genre characteristics and craft;

adjectives, including their comparative and superlative forms;

compose informational texts, including brief compositions that convey information about a topic, using a clear central idea and genre characteristics and craft;

adverbs that convey time and adverbs that convey manner;

compose argumentative texts, including opinion essays, using genre characteristics and craft; and

prepositions and prepositional phrases;

compose correspondence such as thank you notes or letters.

pronouns, including personal, possessive, objective, and reflexive pronouns;

coordinating conjunctions to form compound subjects, predicates, and sentences;

generate questions on a topic for formal and informal inquiry;

capitalization of proper nouns, geographical names and places, historical periods, and official titles of people;

develop and follow a research plan with adult assistance;

punctuation marks, including commas in a series and dates that include the day of the week and correct mechanics, including indentations; and

identify and gather relevant information from a variety of sources;

correct spelling of words with grade-appropriate orthographic patterns and rules; and

identify primary and secondary sources;

publish written work for appropriate audiences.

demonstrate understanding of information gathered;

recognize the difference between paraphrasing and plagiarism when using source materials;

compose literary texts, including personal narratives and poetry, using genre characteristics and craft;

create a works cited page; and

compose informational texts, including brief compositions that convey information about a topic, using a clear central idea and genre characteristics and craft;

use an appropriate mode of delivery, whether written, oral, or multimodal, to present results.

compose argumentative texts, including opinion essays, using genre characteristics and craft; and

compose correspondence such as thank you notes or letters.

generate questions on a topic for formal and informal inquiry;

develop and follow a research plan with adult assistance;

identify and gather relevant information from a variety of sources;

identify primary and secondary sources;

demonstrate understanding of information gathered;

recognize the difference between paraphrasing and plagiarism when using source materials;

create a works cited page; and

use an appropriate mode of delivery, whether written, oral, or multimodal, to present results.

listen actively, ask relevant questions to clarify information, and make pertinent comments;

follow, restate, and give oral instructions that involve a series of related sequences of action;

express an opinion supported by accurate information, employing eye contact, speaking rate, volume, enunciation, and the conventions of language to communicate ideas effectively; and

decoding words with specific orthographic patterns and rules, including regular and irregular plurals;

decoding multisyllabic words with closed syllables; open syllables; VCe syllables; vowel teams, including digraphs and diphthongs; r-controlled syllables; and final stable syllables;

decoding words using advanced knowledge of syllable division patterns such as VV;

decoding words using knowledge of prefixes;

decoding words using knowledge of suffixes, including how they can change base words such as dropping e, changing y to i, and doubling final consonants; and

identifying and reading high-frequency words from a research-based list;

listen actively, ask relevant questions to clarify information, and make pertinent comments;

spelling multisyllabic words with closed syllables; open syllables; VCe syllables; vowel teams, including digraphs and diphthongs; r-controlled syllables; and final stable syllables;

follow, restate, and give oral instructions that involve a series of related sequences of action;

spelling homophones;

express an opinion supported by accurate information, employing eye contact, speaking rate, volume, enunciation, and the conventions of language to communicate ideas effectively; and

spelling multisyllabic words with multiple sound-spelling patterns;

work collaboratively with others to develop a plan of shared responsibilities.

spelling words using advanced knowledge of syllable division patterns;

spelling words using knowledge of prefixes; and

spelling words using knowledge of suffixes, including how they can change base words such as dropping e, changing y to i, and doubling final consonants; and

decoding palabras agudas, graves, esdrújulas, and sobresdrújulas (words with the stress on the last, penultimate, and antepenultimate syllable and words with the stress on the syllable before the antepenultimate);