Composition: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts--genres. The student uses genre characteristics and craft to compose multiple texts that are meaningful.
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.K.11
to create a piece of writing such as a speech or a story
the intentional and deliberate use of organizational patterns, text and graphic features, sentence structures, devices, and language to create an effective written work
Author’s craft varies by genre.
Students are expected to apply the elements and techniques of various literary genres and the craft elements common to the construction of texts in those genres to their own writing. Students should be able to synthesize these structures and techniques in their own compositions to achieve specific purposes.
