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Knowledge and Skills Statement

Composition: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts--writing process. The student uses the writing process recursively to compose multiple texts that are legible and uses appropriate conventions.

Provide students with a teacher-created paragraph constructed with only simple sentences, some of which demonstrate incorrect subject-verb agreement. Have students edit the paragraph to reflect appropriate use of complete simple and compound sentences with subject-verb agreement.

Further Explanation

Students are expected to know what complete simple and compound sentences are and demonstrate this knowledge by correctly editing a piece of writing.

an independent clause that begins with a capital letter, contains at least a verb (such as in a command), and ends with a punctuation mark (period, question mark, or exclamation point)

Students are expected to use complete simple and compound sentences when they edit a piece of writing. A simple sentence consists of one independent clause (e.g., “The chicken crossed the road.”). A compound sentence is composed of at least two independent clauses linked with a coordinating conjunction and comma (e.g., “Muhammad walked to class, but Jesse ran.”).

During the editing stage of the writing process, students further improve their drafts and often prepare for publication by correcting conventions errors. Ensuring that the standards of the English language have been applied correctly helps the audience more easily comprehend the information because they do not have to interrupt their thinking to determine what the writer intended to say.
standard rules of the English language, including written mechanics such as punctuation, capitalization, spelling, paragraphing, etc. and written/oral grammar such as parts of speech, word order, subject-verb agreement, and sentence structure
the grammatical state of a sentence when the subject and verb match in number (singular or plural) and/or person (first person, second person, or third person)