English Language Arts and Reading.4.11.D.v

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The student is expected to

edit drafts using standard English conventions, including:

 

adverbs that convey frequency and adverbs that convey degree;

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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.

The following is one example of how to assess proficiency of this student expectation (SE) or a portion of the SE. More examples coming soon.
 

As adverbs that convey degree are well suited for use in argumentative writing, a teacher may wish to pair SE 4.11.D.v with SE 4.12.C and assess both SEs at the same time. With SE 4.12.C, students compose argumentative texts, including opinion essays, using genre characteristics and craft. Task students with composing an argumentative essay on a topic that has multiple viewpoints. Students should incorporate examples of adverbs that convey degree in their writing. Have students read their essays to the class, and as they are reading, have the other students list all the adverbs that convey degree used in the essay.
 

Further Explanation

This SE requires students to understand that adverbs are words that modify verbs and can function to indicate how often something happens. Students should also be able to use adverbs to modify adjectives and other adverbs in their writing to indicate a level of intensity or to answer how much or to what degree.

 

Students should correctly use adverbs that convey degree in their writing. Adverbs are words that modify verbs or other modifiers and can function to indicate the level of intensity. Adverbs that convey degree answer how much or to what degree. For example, the adverb completely is a word that shows to what degree something is done. In the sentence, “Rachel cleared the table completely,” students will understand that completely conveys the degree to which the table was cleared.
Students should understand that adverbs can also function to indicate how often something happens. For example, the adverb always is a high-frequency word. In the sentence “I always do my homework on time,” students will understand that always describes the frequency with which the homework is completed on time.
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