English Language Arts and Reading.4.11.D.i

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The student is expected to

edit drafts using standard English conventions, including:

 

complete simple and compound sentences with subject-verb agreement and avoidance of splices, run-ons, and fragments;

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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.
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 are editing 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 them for publication by correcting conventions errors. Ensuring that the standard rules of the English language have been correctly applied helps readers more easily comprehend the information because they are not having to interrupt their thinking to determine what the writer intended to say.
an incorrect sentence structure that occurs when a sentence is incomplete, sometimes because it is missing a subject or predicate (e.g., “Some dogs in my house”)
a grammatically incorrect sentence structure that occurs when two or more independent clauses are joined without an appropriate conjunction or punctuation (e.g., “They went to the store we were out of milk.”)
a grammatically incorrect sentence structure that occurs when a comma alone without a conjunction is used to join two independent clauses (e.g., “The class is going to the museum, I plan to join them.”) These are commonly referred to as comma splices and are a subset of run-on sentences.
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 nouns and pronouns match in number and person (first person, second person, third person)