Standards: Language Arts
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.11-12.5
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Education Level 11/12/2014
Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.11-12.5a
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Education Level 11/12/2014
Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings.
Interpret figures of speech (e.g., hyperbole, paradox) in context and analyze their role in the text.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.11-12.5b
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Education Level 11/12/2014
Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings.
Analyze nuances in the meaning of words with similar denotations.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.11-12.6
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Education Level 11/12/2014
Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
Acquire and use accurately general academic and domain-specific words and phrases, sufficient for reading, writing, speaking, and listening at the college and career readiness level; demonstrate independence in gathering vocabulary knowledge when considering a word or phrase important to comprehension or expression.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.2.1
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Education Level 2
Conventions of Standard English
Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.2.1a
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Education Level 2
Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.
Use collective nouns (e.g., group ).
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.2.1b
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Education Level 2
Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.
Form and use frequently occurring irregular plural nouns (e.g., feet, children, teeth, mice, fish ).
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.2.1c
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Education Level 2
Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.
Use reflexive pronouns (e.g., myself, ourselves ).
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.2.1d
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Education Level 2
Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.
Form and use the past tense of frequently occurring irregular verbs (e.g., sat, hid, told ).
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.2.1e
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Education Level 2
Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.
Use adjectives and adverbs, and choose between them depending on what is to be modified.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.2.1f
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Education Level 2
Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.
Produce, expand, and rearrange complete simple and compound sentences (e.g., The boy watched the movie; The little boy watched the movie; The action movie was watched by the little boy ).
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.2.2
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Education Level 2
Conventions of Standard English
Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.2.2a
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Education Level 2
Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.
Capitalize holidays, product names, and geographic names.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.2.2b
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Education Level 2
Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.
Use commas in greetings and closings of letters.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.2.2c
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Education Level 2
Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.
Use an apostrophe to form contractions and frequently occurring possessives.