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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.

Deles a los estudiantes un fragmento de texto leído en clase que ha sido alterado para incluir algunos pronombres equivocados. Pídales a los estudiantes que editen el texto para reflejar el uso apropiado de pronombres, incluyendo personales, posesivos, de objeto y reflexivos. Pídales a los estudiantes que comparen su texto trabajado con el texto original antes de que hubiera sido cambiado.


Further Explanation

Esta expectativa estudiantil requiere que los estudiantes usen correctamente los pronombres para referirse a alguien o en sustitución de palabras que, de otra forma, hacen sentir las oraciones repetitivas. Se espera que los estudiantes revisen sus borradores para evaluar en qué lugares ocurren repeticiones innecesarias que podrían corregirse mediante el uso de los pronombres.

During the editing stage of the writing process, students further improve their drafts and often prepare for publication by correcting conventions errors. Ensuring that the standards of the Spanish language have been applied correctly helps the audience more easily comprehend the information because they do not have to interrupt their thinking to determine what the writer intended to say.
In Spanish, objective pronouns such as lo, la, los, and las replace the direct object in a sentence. In the following example, Me encontré en el patio unas canicas de colores. Las puse en el cajón de mi escritorio, the objective pronoun las, in the second sentence, replaces the direct object of the first sentence: canicas de colores.
Personal pronouns (yo, tú, usted, él/ella, nosotros/ nosotras, ustedes, ellos/ellas) may function as the subject in a sentence. They replace some simple and proper nouns. Consider the following example: Mis amigos disfrutan los meses de verano. The subject of this sentence (Mis amigos) can be replaced by the personal pronoun ellos: Ellos disfrutan los meses de verano.
Possessive pronouns indicate possession or ownership of something. They must always agree in gender and number with a given noun. For example: El teléfono celular de mi tío esá en la cocina = Su teléfono celular está en la cocina. (his).
Students are expected to know how to correctly use pronouns to refer to or in place of previously established nouns or noun phrases. Students should learn that pronouns are useful in writing because they help make sentences smoother and clearer. The following sentences exemplify the importance of pronouns in writing: Mi padre opina que los perros y los gatos son excelentes mascotas. Aunque los perros y los gatos son muy distintos, los perros y los gatos son una buena compañía. Mi padre me dijo que los perros y los gatos se adaptan a vivir con las personas. The sentences sound confusing because of the repetitive use of nouns. Consider the same sentence when pronouns are used to replace the nouns once they have been introduced: Mi padre opina que los perros y los gatos son excelentes mascotas. Aunque ellos son muy distintos, son una buena compañía. Mi padre me dijo que ellos se adaptan a vivir con las personas.
Reflexive pronouns indicate that the action of a verb is performed by the same person it affects. Some examples are: me (myself), te (yourself), se (himself/ herself). In the following sentence, Mi hermana se cayó en la pista de hielo, the pronoun se refers to the second person singular (she).
standard rules of the Spanish 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