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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.

Provide students with text from a book read in class that has been rewritten to include some incorrectly used adjectives. Have students edit the paragraph to reflect appropriate use of adjectives, including their comparative and superlative forms. Have students check their edits with the correct use of adjectives in the book.

Further Explanation

This SE requires students to understand how adjectives create specificity by describing the quality or quantity of something effectively. Students know how to use adjectives, including their comparative and superlative forms and demonstrate this knowledge by correctly editing a piece of writing.

Students are expected to effectively use adjectives in their writing, demonstrating an understanding of how adjectives create specificity by describing the quality or quantity of something. Adjectives are words that describe or modify a noun or pronoun (e.g., good in “a good book” and smart in “she is smart”).
There are different types of adjectives that are used for different purposes. Comparative forms compare a quality between two nouns (e.g., shorter, happier, faster, colder) Superlatives show a comparison among three or more nouns. For example, something can be described as happy, happier, or happiest. Students are expected to use the appropriate type and form of adjectives when editing their compositions.
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 English 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.
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