English Language Arts and Reading.4.11.D.iv

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The student is expected to

edit drafts using standard English conventions, including:

adjectives, including their comparative and superlative forms;

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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.
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., gigantic in “a gigantic tree” and charming in “the painting is charming”). Different types of adjectives are used for different purposes such as descriptive, possessive, demonstrative, comparative, and superlative. Students are expected to use the appropriate type and form of adjectives when editing their compositions.
the form of an adjective (or adverb) used to compare two or more things (or actions) Comparatives are formed using -er (e.g., taller or faster), -ier (e.g., happier), or the word more (e.g., “more traditional”).
During the editing stage of the writing process, students further improve their drafts and often prepare them for publication by correcting conventions errors. Ensuring that the standard rules of the English language have been correctly applied helps readers more easily comprehend the information because they are not having 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
the form of an adjective indicating the greatest or least degree of three or more things or people compared Superlatives are usually formed by adding -est, (e.g., funniest, brightest, smartest), but superlative adjectives sometimes take an irregular form (e.g., most, best, worst).