English Language Arts and Reading.6.10.D.ix

The student is expected to

edit drafts using standard English conventions, including:

 

correct spelling, including commonly confused terms such as its/it's, affect/effect, there/their/they're, and to/two/too; and

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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.

Have students use each of the following words in a sentence: its/it's, affect/effect, there/their/they're, and to/two/too. Have students review a peer’s work to determine whether each word was used correctly in the context of their sentences.
 

Further Explanation

Students should know how to spell commonly confused terms such as its/it's, affect/effect, there/their/they're, and to/two/too. Students should also be able to find misspellings in their own writing or someone else’s writing and correct those misspellings.

Correct spelling is important in effective communication. When a writer knows the correct sequence of letters needed to spell words, the message of a piece of writing is clearer. Because language requires a common understanding of words to build ideas, misspellings can interrupt the readers’ flow as they pause to determine what the writer meant to say. In some cases, the misspelling is confusing because it spells a real word. For instance, students who misspell two as too change the meaning from a number to a word indicating inclusion or degree.