Resource C: Grades 6-8 Composing, Editing & Revising

LANGUAGE ARTS CURRICULUM Sixth through Eighth Grade Composing, Revising and Editing

Resource C

COMPOSING & REVISING

5 6 7 8

Content, Organization and Tone

1. Topic sentence ( in expository writing) X X X X 2. Supporting details X X X X 3. Extraneous material X X X X 4. Chronological order/ logical order ( logical in Grades 5-8) X X X X 5. Tone X X 6. Redundancy of ideas X X X X

Revision: Syntax

1. On and On ( 3 or more sentences connected by “and”) X X X X 2. Run – on ( connected by a semi-colon at grade 8 only) X X X X 3. Awkward construction X X X X 4. Fragment X X X X 5. Sentence combining X X X X

Revision: Word Choice

1. Redundancy of word and phrase X X X X 2. Transition words X X X X 3. Generality/ Specificity X X X X 4. Misplaced modifier X

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LANGUAGE ARTS CURRICULUM Sixth through Eighth Grade Composing, Revising and Editing

Resource C

EDITING

5 6 7 8

Capitalization

10. Names of people, places, groups, religions, months, days and holidays X X X X 11. Titles of people X X X X 12. First word in dialogue X X X X 13. Names of organizations, nationalities, languages, buildings, races, historical events X X X X 14. Opening and closing of a letter X X X X

Punctuation

1. Comma (No comma splice tested in any grade or used in any passage in Grades 3-8 except when testing semi- colon in Grade 8 only) a. after letter heading, after a letter closing X X X X b. in a series X X X X c. in a date (Tuesday, November 8, 2009) X X X X d. with an appositive X X X e. with parenthetical expression X X f. with participial phrase X X g. with quotation marks X X X X h. with city and state X X X X i. before a conjunction in a compound sentence X X X X 2. Quotation marks (punctuate and format dialogue, quotation within a quotation) X X X X 3. Apostrophe  contractions X X X X  possessive X X X X 4. Semi-colon X 5. Colon in a series X X

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LANGUAGE ARTS CURRICULUM Sixth through Eighth Grade Composing, Revising and Editing

Resource C

Usage

1. Subject/verb agreement (number) a. singular and plural subject X X X X b. with intervening phrase X X X X 2. Verb tense (time) a. present, past, future X X b. tenses (simple and perfect) X X 3. Pronoun reference X X X X 4. Comparative/Superlative X X X X 5. Special problems in usage X X X X a. a /an b. they’re, their, there c. to, too, two d. good /well e. its, it’s f. I / me g. know / no h. then / than i. your /you’re j. whose /who’s k. hear / here l. who / whom m. were / we’re

Spelling

1. Grade appropriate words X X X X

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