Created May 2015
SCCCR English Language Arts Standards
K-12 Conventions Matrix
*All grade levels should reinforce the conventions taught in previous grades.
Writing Language (WL)Standard 4:
Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking. / Writing Language (WL)
Standard 5: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.
Grade / Grammar and Usage
WL4.1 / Capitalization
WL5.1 / Punctuation
WL5.2 / Spelling
WL5.3-5.5
K / With guidance and support:
· Use nouns
· Form regular plural nouns orally
· Understand and use interrogatives
· Use verbs
· Use adjectives
· Use prepositional phrases
· Use conjunctions
Produce and expand
· Complete sentences / Capitalize:
· First word in a sentence and the pronoun I / · Recognize and name end punctuation / · Write letter(s) in familiar consonant and vowel sounds
· Spell simple words phonetically
· Consult print and multimedia resources to check and correct spelling
1 / Use:
· Common, proper, and possessive nouns
· Singular and plural nouns with matching verbs in basic sentences
· Personal, possessive, and indefinite pronouns
· Verbs to convey a sense of past, present, and future
· Adjectives and adverbs
· Prepositional phrases
· Conjunctions
Produce and expand:
· Complete simple and compound declarative, interrogative, imperative, and exclamatory sentences / Capitalize:
· First word of a sentence, dates, names, and the pronoun I / Use:
· Periods, question marks, and exclamation marks at the end of sentences
· Commas in dates and to separate items in a series / · Use conventional spelling for words with common spelling patterns
· Spell unknown words phonetically
· Spell common irregularly-spelled, grade-appropriate high-frequency words
· Consult print and multimedia resources to check and correct spelling
2 / Use:
· Collective nouns
· Frequently occurring irregular and plural nouns
· Reflexive pronouns
· Past tense of frequently occurring irregular verbs
· Positional, time, and place prepositional phrases
· Conjunctions
Produce, expand, and rearrange:
· Complete simple and compound sentences / Capitalize:
· Greetings, months, days of the week, holidays, geographic names, and titles / Use:
· Periods, questions marks, or exclamation marks at the end of sentences
· Commas in greetings and closings of letters, dates, and to separate items in a series
· Apostrophes to form contractions and singular possessive nouns / · Generalize learned spelling patterns and word families
· Correctly spell words with short and long vowel sounds, r-controlled vowels, consonant-blend patterns, and common irregularly-spelled grade-appropriate high frequency words
· Consult print and multimedia resources to check and correct spelling
3 / When writing:
· Show knowledge of the function of nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs
· Form and use regular and irregular plural nouns
· Use abstract nouns
· Form and use regular and irregular verbs
· Form and use the simple verb tenses
· Ensure subject-verb and pronoun-antecedent agreement
· Form and use comparative and superlative adjectives and adverbs, and choose between them depending on what is to be modified
· Form and use prepositional phrases
· Use coordinating and subordinating conjunctions
Produce:
· Simple, compound, and complex sentences / Capitalize:
· Appropriate words in titles, historical periods, company names, and special events / Use:
· Apostrophes to form contractions and singular and plural possessives
· Quotation marks to mark direct speech
· Comas in locations and addresses to mark direct speech, and with coordinating adjectives / · Use conventional spelling for high-frequency words, previously studies words, and for adding suffixes to base words
· Use spelling patterns and generalizations
· Consult print and multimedia sources to check and correct spelling
4 / When writing:
· Use relative pronouns and relative adverbs
· Form and use the progressive verb tenses
· Use modal auxiliaries to convey various conditions
· Use modal auxiliaries and the progressive verb tenses, recognize and correcting inappropriate shifts in verb tense
· Order adjectives within a sentence
· Use coordinating and subordinating conjunctions
· Use a variety of sentence types to produce complete sentences, recognizing and correcting inappropriate fragments and run-ons
· Use frequently confused homonyms correctly / Capitalize:
· Names of magazines, newspapers, works of art, musical compositions, organizations, and the first word in quotations / Use:
· Apostrophes to form possessives and contractions
· Quotation marks and commas to mark direct speech
· Commas before a coordinating conjunction in a compound sentence / Use:
· Spelling patterns and generalizations
5 / When writing:
· Show knowledge of the function of conjunctions, prepositions, and interjections
· Form and use the perfect verb tenses
· Use verb tense to convey various times, sequence, states and conditions
· Recognize and use appropriate continuity or shifts in verb tense
· Use correlative conjunctions / · Apply correct usage and capitalization / Use
· Apostrophes and quotation marks
· Commas for appositives, to set off the words yes and no, to set off a tag question from the rest of the sentence, and to indicate direct address / · Students are expected to build upon and continue applying previous learning. (Grades 3 and 4)
6 / When writing:
· Ensure that subjective, objective, and possessive pronouns are in the proper case
· Use intensive pronouns
· Recognize and use appropriate continuity and shifts in pronoun number and person
· Recognize and correct pronouns with unclear or ambiguous antecedents
· Recognize variations from standard English in one’s own and others’ writing
· Identify and use strategies to improve expression in conventional language / · Students are expected to build upon and continue applying previous learning (Grade 5) / Use:
· Commas, parentheses, or dashes to set off nonrestrictive/parenthetical elements
· Semicolons to connect main clauses and colons to introduce a list or quotations / · Students are expected to build upon and continue applying previous learning (Grades 3 and 4)
7 / When writing:
· Show knowledge of the function of phrases and clauses in general and their function in specific sentences
· Choose among simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences to signal differing relationships among ideas
· Use phrases and clauses within a sentence, recognizing and correcting misplaced and dangling modifiers / · Students are expected to build upon and continue applying previous learning (Grade 5) / Use:
· A comma to separate coordinate adjectives
· A comma after introductory subordinate clauses / · Students are expected to build upon and continue applying previous learning (Grades 3 and 4)
8 / When writing:
· Show knowledge of the function of gerunds, participles, and infinitives and their functions in particular sentences
· Form and use verbs in the active and passive voice
· Form and use verbs in the indicative, imperative, interrogative, conditional, and subjunctive mood
· Recognize and correct inappropriate shifts in verb voice and mood / · Students are expected to build upon and continue applying previous learning (Grade 5) / Use:
· Commas, ellipses, and dashes to indicate a pause, break, or omission
· An ellipsis to indicate an omission / · Students are expected to build upon and continue applying previous learning (Grades 3 and 4)
English 1 / When writing:
· Use parallel structure
· Identify and use gerunds, infinitives, and participles
· Identify and use active and passive verbs
· Explain and use indicative, imperative, subjunctive, conditional verb moods to communicate different messages
· Use noun, verb, adjectival, adverbial, participial, prepositional, and absolute phrases and independent, dependent, noun relative, and adverbial clauses to convey specific meanings and add variety and interest to writing / · Students are expected to build upon and continue applying previous learning (Grade 5) / Use:
· A semicolon or a conjunctive adverb to link two ore more closely related independent clauses
· A colon to introduce a list or quotation
· Commas to separate adjacent, parallel structures / · Students are expected to build upon and continue applying previous learning (Grades 3 and 4)
English 2 / When writing:
· Use parallel structure
· Use verb, noun, prepositional, and verbal phrases to communicate different meanings
· Use independent, dependent, noun, relative, and adverbial phrases and clauses to convey shades of meaning and variety
· Use parallel structures to communicate similar ideas
· Use noun, verb, adjectival, adverbial, participial, prepositional, and absolute phrases and independent, dependent, noun relative, and adverbial clauses to convey specific meanings and add variety and interest to writing / · Students are expected to build upon and continue applying previous learning (Grade 5) / Use:
· A semicolon or a conjunctive adverb to link two or more closely related independent clauses
· A colon to introduce a list or quotation
· Commas to separate adjacent parallel structure / · Students are expected to build upon and continue applying previous learning (Grades 3 and 4)
English 3 / When writing:
· use verb, noun, prepositional, and verbal phrases to communicate different meanings
· use independent, dependent, noun, relative, and adverbial phrases and clauses to convey shades of meaning and variety
· Demonstrate command of grammar and usage rules
· Apply the understanding that usage is a matter of convention, can change over time, and is sometimes contested
· Resolve issues of complex or contested usage, consulting references as needed. / · Students are expected to build upon and continue applying previous learning (Grade 5) / Use:
· Semicolon, colon, and comma conventions
· Hyphenation conventions / · Students are expected to build upon and continue applying previous learning (Grades 3 and 4)
English 4 / When writing:
· apply the understanding that usage is a matter of convention, can change over time, and is sometimes contested
· resolve issues of complex or contested usage, consulting references as needed / · Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization / · Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English punctuation / · Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English spelling