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English Language Development — Grade 2

Goal 4. Writing — Advanced

Goal 4. Writing

The learner will communicate in appropriate written English in a variety of personal, social, and academic contexts.

Level: Advanced

Students will use expanded vocabulary effectively in social and academic settings with few errors and will rely much less on forms of non-verbal communication. Learning objectives focus on narration and retelling using details and adjectives, comprehending oral presentations on familiar and unfamiliar topics, responding to interrogatives, paraphrasing events in detail, speaking using consistent grammatical forms, speaking with correct intonation and modulation, using punctuation marks correctly, composing more complex sentences, following two-step and three-step directions, increasing reading stamina, and reading or interpreting own writing with few errors.

Objective AD 4.01
Produce various forms of writing independently with little assistance.
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Objective AD 4.02
Write complete sentences including more complex grammar, descriptors, and subject/verb agreement with occasional assistance.
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Objective AD 4.03
Spell previously studied words correctly and use reference materials to identify and correct grade-level spelling words in own writing.
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Objective AD 4.04
Write a one or two-paragraph narrative and informative presentation with little assistance.
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Objective AD 4.05
Compose more complex sentences using punctuation and capitalization appropriately with little assistance.
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Objective AD 4.06
Edit own writing focusing on specific traits from an editing checklist with little assistance.
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