English Language Arts and Reading.7.10.D.ii

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The student is expected to

edit drafts using standard English conventions, including:

 

consistent, appropriate use of verb tenses;

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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.
Verb tenses indicate when an action or state of being occurred. The three main/primary tenses in the English language are past (indicating something has already happened), present (indicating something is currently happening), and future (indicating that something will happen later.) When multiple verbs appear in a clause, the tenses should be consistent.
During the editing stage of the writing process, students further improve their drafts and often prepare them for publication by correcting conventions errors. Applying the standard rules of the English language correctly helps the audience understand the information more easily by not having to interrupt their thinking to decide 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

Research

Voyager Sopris Learning. (2008). The writing process for step up to writing. Step Up For Writing Series, Expository Paragraphs.  Retrieved from www.voyagersopris.com

Summary: This one-page resource outlines eight steps in the writing process. The stages include prewriting, planning, drafting, revising, editing, writing a final copy, proofreading, and finally submitting the final copy.