Writing Essentials

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Copyright © Texas Education Agency, All rights reserved. 3 Organize Effective Logic Sequential Interpret Distinguish Communicate Fact Opinion Identify Key Words Visual Materials Precise Concise Coherence Logical Progression Support of Ideas Phrase Clause Conjunction

Copyright © Texas Education Agency, All rights reserved. 4 Performance Objective The student will be able to use and apply appropriate grammar skills (punctuation, spelling, and capitalization) while understanding and practicing the conventions of academic language in both written and verbal form. Specific Objectives Use and understand the function of different types of clauses and phrases such as adjectival, noun, or adverbial clauses and phrases Use a variety of correctly structured sentences such as compound, complex, or compound-complex Write legibly and use appropriate capitalization and punctuation Spell correctly, including uses of various resources to determine and correct spellings

Copyright © Texas Education Agency, All rights reserved. 5 Have you ever heard of Schoolhouse Rock? Do have an easy time remembering lyrics to songs? Why do you think you can easily remember the lyrics? Wouldnt it be nice if we could remember all kinds of information like that? Do you have a difficult time remembering how to correctly punctuate, spell, and compose sentences (simple, complex, compound, and/or compound- complex)?

Copyright © Texas Education Agency, All rights reserved. 6 Take some time to search the Internet to find different online resources that help with learning and understanding of sentence structure, capitalization, and spelling.

Copyright © Texas Education Agency, All rights reserved. 7 What is an independent clause? What is a dependent clause? What is a phrase? What is an adjective clause or phrase? What is an adverbial clause or phrase? What is a compound sentence? What is a complex sentence? What is a compound-complex sentence?

Copyright © Texas Education Agency, All rights reserved. 8 Use the provided template to create your own Frayer Method forms to help reinforce the following concepts: Independent clause Dependent clause Phrase Adjective clause or phrase Adverbial clause or phrase Compound sentence Complex sentence Compound-complex sentence

Copyright © Texas Education Agency, All rights reserved. 9 How did you do? Performance Objective The student will be able to use and apply appropriate grammar skills (punctuation, spelling, and capitalization) while understanding and practicing the conventions of academic language in both written and verbal form. Specific Objectives Use and understand the function of different types of clauses and phrases such as adjectival, noun, or adverbial clauses and phrases Use a variety of correctly structured sentences such as compound, complex, or compound-complex Write legibly and use appropriate capitalization and punctuation Spell correctly, including uses of various resources to determine and correct spellings