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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 a teacher-created paragraph that includes some incorrectly used adverbs. Have students edit the paragraph to reflect appropriate use of adverbs that convey time and adverbs that convey manner.

Further Explanation

This SE requires students to understand how adverbs that convey time modify verbs in a sentence to let the reader know when something specifically occurred. Students know how to use adverbs that convey time and adverbs that convey manner and demonstrate this knowledge by correctly editing a piece of writing.

Adverbs that convey manner are words that modify a verb by telling us in what manner an action was carried out. These types of adverbs provide more information to the reader about how something should be imagined. For example, if a writer says, “It was raining,” the reader could imagine anything from a light drizzle to a heavy deluge. The writer removes that ambiguity by adding an adverb: “It was raining heavily.”
Adverbs that convey time modify verbs in a sentence to let the reader know specifically when something occurred. The words now, today, later, and before are examples of these types of adverbs. Students should understand how these words add specificity and, therefore, stronger imagery, to their writing.
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