Vocabulary Strategies: Context Clues, Prefixes, and Compounds

Identify and use collective nouns, irregular plural nouns, personal and possessive pronouns, and reflexive pronouns to maintain grammatical cohesion.

Form irregular past-tense verbs, build expanded verb groups, and maintain consistent subject-verb and tense agreement.

Use descriptive adjectives, articles, and adverbs accurately to expand noun phrases and modify verbs.

Produce, expand, and rearrange complete simple and compound sentences using coordinating conjunctions.

Apply standard capitalization rules to proper nouns, dates, holidays, product names, titles, and letter parts.

Demonstrate command of punctuation conventions including commas in dates, series, and letters, apostrophes in contractions and possessives, and end marks.

Apply conventional orthographic rules, syllable patterns, and reference resources to spell words and verify accuracy.

Determine and clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words using sentence context, affixes, roots, compounds, and glossaries.

Demonstrate understanding of word relationships, real-life connections, and subtle gradations of meaning among related verbs and adjectives.