English Language Arts and Reading.4.11.D.ix

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The student is expected to

edit drafts using standard English conventions, including:

 

capitalization of historical periods, events, and documents; titles of books; stories and essays; and languages, races, and nationalities;

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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.
Students are expected to accurately apply the rules for capitalizing a variety of proper noun types that are typically more than one word (e.g., Texas Revolution, the Great Plains), and/or are derived from other specific pronouns (e.g., American Indian, Spanish). Students should understand that when multiple words are included in one of these types of proper noun phrases, some words may be capitalized while others might not (e.g., the Bill of Rights). Students need to know when prepositions, articles, and conjunctions should or should not be capitalized within a title or proper noun phrase.
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