A student expectation is directly related to the knowledge and skills statement, is more specific about how students demonstrate their learning, and always begins with a verb. Student expectations are further broken down into their component parts, often referred to as “breakouts.”
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.
A knowledge and skills statement is a broad statement of what students must know and be able to do. It generally begins with a learning strand and ends with the phrase “The student is expected to:” Knowledge and skills statements always include related student expectations.
Glossary Support for ELA.4.11.D.iv
Students are expected to effectively use adjectives in their writing, demonstrating an understanding of how adjectives create specificity by describing the quality or quantity of something. Adjectives are words that describe or modify a noun or pronoun (e.g., gigantic in “a gigantic tree” and charming in “the painting is charming”). Different types of adjectives are used for different purposes such as descriptive, possessive, demonstrative, comparative, and superlative. Students are expected to use the appropriate type and form of adjectives when editing their compositions.
the form of an adjective (or adverb) used to compare two or more things (or actions)
Comparatives are formed using -er (e.g., taller or faster), -ier (e.g., happier), or the word more (e.g., “more traditional”).
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.
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 form of an adjective indicating the greatest or least degree of three or more things or people compared
Superlatives are usually formed by adding -est, (e.g., funniest, brightest, smartest), but superlative adjectives sometimes take an irregular form (e.g., most, best, worst).
