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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 incorrect pronouns. Have students edit the paragraph to reflect appropriate use of pronouns, including subjective, objective, and possessive cases. Have students check their edits with the correct pronouns in the book.

Further Explanation

This SE requires students to know how to correctly use pronouns to refer to or in place of previously established nouns or noun phrases. Students are expected to review their drafts and evaluate the use of indefinite pronouns in their compositions. Students should identify indefinite pronouns that create ambiguity and replace them with a more specific word or phrase.

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.
Students are expected to know how to correctly use pronouns to refer to or take the 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.
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
Students are expected to review their drafts and evaluate the use of correct pronoun case. Students should recognize when a pronoun is acting as the subject of the sentence (subjective case), receiving the action in a sentence (objective case), or show that something belongs to something or someone else (possessive case).