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English Language Development — Grade 5

Goal 4. Writing — Intermediate High

Goal 4. Writing

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

Level: Intermediate High

Students will begin to use expanded vocabulary to participate effectively in social and academic conversations and presentations with occasional difficulty. They may continue to use forms of non-verbal communication to demonstrate comprehension, but will rely more upon verbal skills. Learning objectives focus on responding to questions spoken at normal speed, using expanded vocabulary for discourse, retelling text with less difficulty, using phonetic knowledge and structural analysis to decode words, using reference materials to understand unknown words in text, distinguishing between fact and opinion, reading self-selected texts independently, and following one-step and two-step directions.

Objective IH 4.01
Use capitalization and punctuation independently with few errors.
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Objective IH 4.02
Compose compound sentences using regular verbs appropriately, but with inconsistent use of adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions and irregular verbs in all tenses.
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Objective IH 4.03
Identify misspellings of most high frequency words and use reference materials with occasional instructional assistance to correct misspellings in own writing.
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Objective IH 4.04
Compose several paragraphs with topic sentences, supporting details, and some evidence of logical progression (e.g., some use of transition words).
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Objective IH 4.05
Use focused review to edit correct use of plural forms of commonly used nouns and common contractions, sequence of events, and addition of descriptive words and phrases with some instructional support.
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