| (a) |
Represent ideas, opinions, and facts about identity, social responsibility, and efficacy for specific purposes (e.g., to explain, to narrate, to describe, to persuade) and audiences. |
| (b) |
Create speeches, written compositions, and other representations that feature the following qualities: Message Content or Ideas (Meaning): Focuses on straightforward ideas and information; provides relevant details, examples, and explanations; generally is accurate and complete; uses own words. Organization and Coherence (Form): Introduces the topic and purpose; may provide some context; sticks to the topic; provides easy-to-follow sequence with related ideas grouped together (sequence is logical); uses a variety of connecting words; creates a logical ending; includes appropriate, required text features (e.g., titles, headings, diagrams, illustrations); uses paragraphs that have main ideas and supporting details. Language Conventions (Style and Language Choices): Uses clear purpose and language; contains some description and variety in diction; contains a variety of sentence lengths and some varied sentence beginnings; demonstrates the use of several different conjunctions; formulates simple, compound, and complex sentences; applies the conventions of oral and written language, including very few spelling errors, correct punctuation (including use of colon, dash, and hyphen); uses syntactically complete and correct sentences (avoiding run-ons and fragments); uses legible cursive handwriting and other clear representations which are visually accurate and legibly and neatly presented. |
| (c) |
Create a variety of visual, oral, written, and multimedia (including digital) texts including personal narratives, responses or reactions to reports, articles, instructions, explanations, letters, illustrations, diagrams, leaflets, stories, poems, storyboards, cartoons, skits, or short video scripts. |
| (d) |
Create a variety of meaningful personal and impromptu communications (e.g., story, poem, visual representation) characterized by some insight, development, and originality. |
| (e) |
Use speaking, writing, and other forms of representing to respond to experiences and to texts. |
