Grade 9/10

Spells accurately in final draft.

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Uses spelling words and patterns from the previous grades.

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Uses multiple strategies to spell.

Examples:

- homophones (e.g., council and counsel, stationary and stationery)

- affixes (e.g., -cian, -ness)

- roots (e.g., anthropology, philosophy)

- foreign spellings (e.g., alumna/alumnae/alumnus, medium/media, datum/data)

- words from other languages (e.g., bourgeois, kindergarten, espresso, boutique,

rceive, congratulations, success)

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spelling.

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grades.

talization.

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s built last year, is

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interrupted speech.

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Uses appropriate punctuation when

writing in other languages (e.g., René).

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Uses resources to check punctuation.

coyote)

- frequently misspelled words (e.g., pe

Uses resources to correct own

Applies capitalization rules.

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Uses capitalization rules from previous

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Uses resources to check capi

Applies punctuation rules.

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Uses punctuation rules from previous grades.

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Uses commas to set off nonrestrictive clauses (e.g., The gym, which wa

used every day.).

Uses brackets around an editorial correction or to set of added words.

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Uses the em dash ( ) to indicate

emphasis or sudden break, to set off an

introductory series, or to show

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Applies usage rules.

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Applies usage rules from previous grades.

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Avoids dangling modifiers (e.g., After I stood in line for hours, I discovered the tickets

were sold out. Incorrect: After standing in line for hours, the tickets were sold out. The

second sentence makes it appear that the tickets were in line.).

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Uses who vs. whom correctly.

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Uses that vs. which and that vs. who correctly.

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Uses either or and neither nor correctly.

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Uses many commonly confused words correctly (e.g., accept vs. except or can vs. may).

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Uses active voice except when passive voice is appropriate (e.g., active voice: They saw

m.).

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plenty of sleep, they should eat

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et plenty of sleep, that they

e warm-up exercises.

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propriate.

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at, skipping

tnotes, space for pictures).

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Cites sources according to prescribed format (e.g., MLA, APA, Turabian).

it. vs. passive voice: It was seen by the

Uses parallel construction in clauses.

parallel: The coach told the players they should get

well, and they should do some warm-up exercises.

not parallel: The coach told the players they should g

should eat well and to do som

Uses resources to check usage.

Uses complete sentences in writing.

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May use fragments in dialogue as ap

Applies paragraph conventions.

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Uses paragraph conventions (e.g., designate by indentation or block form

lines between paragraphs).

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Uses textual markers (e.g., page numbers, foo

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