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Teaching the New Frameworks
Competency Four
Standard English Grammar, Usage and Mechanics
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Competency Four
The student will apply standard English to communicate.
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Areas Addressed by Competency Four
• Standard English Grammar
• Standard English Mechanics
• Sentence Structure
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Competency Four – Objective A
• The student will use standard English grammar.1) Begin to use nouns (e.g., singular, plural)
2) Begin to use verbs
3) Begin to use articles and conjunctions
4) Begin to use adjectives
5) Begin to use pronouns
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Creating Action ABC Books
• Ask students to act out action words such as jump, twirl, sing, clap, yawn.
• Ask students to add words of their own.
• Talk about these words as verbs using a definition such as “a part of speech that describes an action.”
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Creating Action ABC Books
• Brainstorm with students for action words or verbs. List these on an organizer. A - __________________________ B - __________________________ C - __________________________
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Creating Action ABC Books
• Have students make individual pages for a shared big book or have students create their own action ABC books.
Waddle
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Books About Parts of Speech
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Considerations for Assessment
1. Kevin and Keisha both have new crayon boxes. The teacher told Kevin and Keisha to put ____ new crayon boxes on her desk.
Which word belongs in the blank?A. myB. hersC. their* D. our
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Considerations for Assessment
2. Which of the following sentences uses pronouns correctly?
A. A horse needs water, but they should not drink too much when it is hot.
B. Horses wear shoes made of iron, but it may need shoes of lighter metal.
C. Both heavy and light horses need to eat enough, and they both usually eat green grass.*
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Competency Four – Objective B
The student will use standard English mechanics. Punctuation Capitalization Spelling Handwriting
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Books About Punctuation
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Do Commas Really Make A Difference?
Slow, children crossing!
Slow children crossing!
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Considerations for Assessment
1. Read the following sentence.Many of my friends went to the beech yesterday.
Which word from the sentence is NOT spelled correctly?
A. manyB. friendsC. beech*D. yesterday
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Considerations for Assessment
2. Which of the following sentences uses quotation marks correctly?
A. My class rally likes Marbles, a poem we read in class yesterday.
B. Jonathan, please turn in your homework assignment now,” the teacher said.
C. My older brother had to read the poem “The Road Not Taken” for homework.
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A Note About Handwriting
• The MLAF 2006 addresses handwriting under Competency Four.
• The MLAF 2006 does not address the introduction of cursive writing.
• This is a district decision.• The language used in the MLAF 2006
does illustrate the expectations for writing as measured by the 4th grade writing assessment.
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Competency Four – Objective C
The student will begin to use a variety of sentence structures.
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Who? What? Where? When? Why?• Ask students for a word that tells “who.” A
boy• Ask students to add a word that tells “what.”
A boy played.• Ask students to add words to tell “where.” A
boy played at his best friend’s house. • Ask students to add words to tell “when.” A
boy played at his best friend’s house after school.
• Ask students to add words to tell “why.” A boy played at his best friend’s house after school because his mother was still at work.
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Considerations for Assessment1. Mrs. Jamison begins class each morning
the same way. These are the things she says.
1. Class, I am happy to see you today.
2. What do you want to do first?
3. I will let you choose between reading or math.
Which sentence is an interrogative sentence?
A. Sentence 1
B. Sentence 2
C. Sentence 3*
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Considerations for Assessment1. Read the paragraph in the box.
(1) My teacher reads to our class at least once a week. (2) She tells us a little about the story. (3) Before we listen to her. (4) I like all the stories.
A. My teacher reads stories to our class.
B. She tells us a little about the story before we listen to her.*
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Questions and Answers
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Arriving at one point is the starting point to another.
John Dewey