Curriculum Standards

Grammar & Conventions

English Standards

 • General Standard 5: Structure and Origins of Modern English
Students will analyze standard English grammar and usage and recognize how its vocabulary has developed and been influenced by other languages.

 • Grades 5-6
5.11 Identify verb phrases and verb tenses.

 • Grades 5-6
5.12 Recognize that a word performs different functions according to its position in the sentence.

 • Grades 5-6
5.10 Expand or reduce sentences (adding or deleting modifiers, combining or decombining sentences).

 • Grades 5-6
5.13 Identify simple and compound sentences.

 • Grades 5-6
5.14 Identify correct mechanics (apostrophes, quotation marks, comma use in compound sentences, paragraph indentations) and correct sentence structure (elimination of sentence fragments and run-ons).

 • Grades 5-6
5.9 Identify the eight basic parts of speech (noun, pronoun, verb, adverb, conjunction, preposition, interjection).

 • Grades 5-6
4.17 Determine the meaning of unfamiliar words using context clues (definition, example).

 • Grades 5-6
4.18 Determine the meaning of unfamiliar words using knowledge of common Greek and Latin roots, suffixes, and prefixes.

 • Grades 5-6
4.19 Determine pronunciations, meanings, alternate word choices, and parts of speech of words using dictionaries and thesauruses.