Spanish Language Arts.4.11.A

listen actively, ask relevant questions to clarify information, and make pertinent comments;

follow, restate, and give oral instructions that involve a series of related sequences of action;

express an opinion supported by accurate information, employing eye contact, speaking rate, volume, enunciation, and the conventions of language to communicate ideas effectively; and

spelling palabras agudas and graves (words with the stress on the last and penultimate syllable) with an orthographic accent;

spelling palabras esdrújulas (words with the stress on the antepenultimate syllable) that have an orthographic accent;

spelling words with diphthongs and hiatus; and

marking accents appropriately when conjugating verbs such as in simple and imperfect past, past participle, perfect, conditional, and future tenses; and

identify the meaning of and use words with affixes such as mono-, sobre-, sub-, inter-, poli-, -able, -ante, -eza, -ancia, and -ura, and roots, including auto, bio, grafía, metro, fono, and tele;

identify, use, and explain the meaning of idioms, homographs, and homophones such as abrasar/abrazar; and

differentiate between and use homographs, homophones, and commonly confused terms such as porque/porqué/por qué/por que, sino/si no, and también/tan bien.

describe personal connections to a variety of sources, including self-selected texts;

write responses that demonstrate understanding of texts, including comparing and contrasting ideas across a variety of sources;

use text evidence to support an appropriate response;

retell, paraphrase, or summarize texts in ways that maintain meaning and logical order;

interact with sources in meaningful ways such as notetaking, annotating, freewriting, or illustrating;

respond using newly acquired vocabulary as appropriate; and

discuss specific ideas in the text that are important to the meaning.

demonstrate knowledge of distinguishing characteristics of well-known children's literature such as folktales, fables, legends, myths, and tall tales;

explain figurative language such as simile, metaphor, and personification that the poet uses to create images;

explain structure in drama such as character tags, acts, scenes, and stage directions;

the central idea with supporting evidence;

features such as pronunciation guides and diagrams to support understanding; and

organizational patterns such as compare and contrast;

identifying the claim;

explaining how the author has used facts for an argument; and

identifying the intended audience or reader; and

recognize characteristics of multimodal and digital texts.

explain the author's purpose and message within a text;

explain how the use of text structure contributes to the author's purpose;

analyze the author's use of print and graphic features to achieve specific purposes;

describe how the author's use of imagery, literal and figurative language such as simile and metaphor, and sound devices such as alliteration and assonance achieves specific purposes;

identify and understand the use of literary devices, including first- or third-person point of view;

discuss how the author's use of language contributes to voice; and

identify and explain the use of anecdote.

organizing with purposeful structure, including an introduction, transitions, and a conclusion; and

developing an engaging idea with relevant details;

revise drafts to improve sentence structure and word choice by adding, deleting, combining, and rearranging ideas for coherence and clarity;

complete simple and compound sentences with subject-verb agreement and avoidance of splices, run-ons, and fragments;

verb tense such as simple past, present, and future and imperfect past, past participle, and conditional;

singular, plural, common, and proper nouns, including gender-specific articles;

adjectives, including their comparative and superlative forms;

adverbs that convey frequency and adverbs that convey degree;

prepositions and prepositional phrases;

pronouns, including personal, possessive, objective, reflexive, and prepositional;

coordinating conjunctions to form compound subjects, predicates, and sentences;

capitalization of historical events and documents, titles of books, stories, and essays;

punctuation marks, including commas in compound and complex sentences and em dash for dialogue; and

correct spelling of words with grade-appropriate orthographic patterns and rules; and

publish written work for appropriate audiences.

compose literary texts such as personal narratives and poetry using genre characteristics and craft;

compose informational texts, including brief compositions that convey information about a topic, using a clear central idea and genre characteristics and craft;

compose argumentative texts, including opinion essays using genre characteristics and craft; and

compose correspondence that requests information.

generate and clarify questions on a topic for formal and informal inquiry;

develop and follow a research plan with adult assistance;

identify and gather relevant information from a variety of sources;

identify primary and secondary sources;

demonstrate understanding of information gathered;

recognize the difference between paraphrasing and plagiarism when using source materials;

develop a bibliography; and

use an appropriate mode of delivery, whether written, oral, or multimodal, to present results.