LANGUAGE LANGUAGE STANDARDS FOR CLASSES IV – VIII: The following language standards offer a focus for instruction each year to make sure that students achieve adequate mastery of a range of skills and applications. Students must gain control over many conventions of standard English grammar, usage, and mechanics as well as learn other ways to use language to convey meaning effectively. They must also be able to determine or clarify the meaning of class-specific words encountered through listening, reading, and media. Students should be aware that words have non-literal meanings, shades of meaning, and relationships to other words. Students advancing through the classes are expected to meet each year’s class-specific standards and further develop skills and understanding mastered in the preceding classes. 1. CONVENTION OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE Language Standard 1: Demonstrate command of the conventions of English grammar and usage when writing or speaking. CODE
4L.1CEL1 5L.1CEL1 6L.1CEL1 7L.1CEL1 8L.1CEL1
Class IV
Class V
Class VI
Class VII
Class VIII
Demonstrate mastery of the conventions of English grammar and its use when writing or speaking. Class-specific expectation are mentioned below: (i) Use common, collective, proper, and possessive nouns. (ii) Use singular, plural, and irregular plural nouns with matching verbs in simple sentences. (e.g., He sings; We sing)
Demonstrate mastery of the conventions of English grammar and its use when writing or speaking. Class-specific expectation are mentioned below: (i) Identify and use the different parts of speech. (ii) Form and use different types of nouns and verbs. (e.g., singular, plural, proper, common, concrete, and abstract nouns;
Demonstrate mastery of the conventions of English grammar and its use when writing or speaking. Class-specific expectation are mentioned below: (i) Use interrogative, relative pronouns (who, whose, whom, which, that) and relative adverbs (where, when, why). (ii) Form and use progressive verb tenses – continuous tenses.
Demonstrate mastery of the conventions of English grammar and its use when writing or speaking. Class-specific expectation are mentioned below: (i) Identify and use conjunctions, prepositions, and interjections. (ii) Form and use present, past, future perfect verb tenses. (e.g., I have written; I had written; I will have written.)
Demonstrate mastery of the conventions of English grammar and its use when writing or speaking. Class-specific expectation are mentioned below: (i) Use pronouns in the proper case. (e.g., subjective, objective, possessive) (ii) Use all pronouns including intensive pronouns correctly. (e.g., myself, ourselves)
18
Suggestions for Instructional Strategies - Use of synthesis of sentences charts - Use of verb conjugation graphic organizer - Use of word formation graphic organizer - Use of sentence transformation dramatization/ games/charts