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• 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.
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• Grades 5-6
5.11 Identify verb phrases and verb tenses.
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• Grades 5-6
5.12 Recognize that a word performs different functions according to its
position in the sentence.
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• Grades 5-6
5.10 Expand or reduce sentences (adding or deleting modifiers, combining or decombining sentences).
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• Grades 5-6
5.13 Identify simple and compound sentences.
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• 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).
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• Grades 5-6
5.9 Identify the eight basic parts of speech (noun, pronoun, verb, adverb,
conjunction, preposition, interjection).
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• Grades 5-6
4.17 Determine the meaning of unfamiliar words using context clues
(definition, example).
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• Grades 5-6
4.18 Determine the meaning of unfamiliar words using knowledge of common
Greek and Latin roots, suffixes, and prefixes.
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• Grades 5-6
4.19 Determine pronunciations, meanings, alternate word choices, and parts of
speech of words using dictionaries and thesauruses.
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