6th+ELA+Standard+1

GLE 0601.1.1 Demonstrate control of Standard English through the use of grammar, usage, and mechanics (punctuation, capitalization, and spelling).

Essential questions: When would you capitalize a word? Can you identify and differentiate between the eight parts of speech?

GLE 0601.1.2 Employ a variety of strategies and resources to determine the definition, pronunciation, and usage of words and phrases.

Essential questions: Can you use dictionaries, thesauruses, and glossaries to determine the pronunciation, spelling, and part of speech to clarify meaning of words? Can you use a thesaurus to find synonyms or antonyms of words?

GLE 0601.1.3 Understand and use correctly a variety of sentence structures.

Essential questions: Can you correct run on sentences, fragments, and sentences with comma splices? Can you recognize and differentiate between simple, compound, complex sentences?

SPI 0601.1.1 Identify the correct use of nouns (i.e., common/proper, singular/plural, possessives) and pronouns (i.e., agreement, subject, object) within context.

Essential questions: Can you identify common and proper nouns within a given text? Can you tell the difference between singular, plural, and possessive forms of nouns?

SPI 0601.1.2 Identify the correct use of verbs (i.e., action, linking, regular/irregular, agreement) within context.

Essential questions: Can you tell the difference between an action verb and a linking verb? Are you able to determine if your subject and verb agree in number?

SPI 0601.1.3 Identify the correct use of adjectives (i.e., common/proper, comparative forms) and adverbs (i.e., comparative forms) within context.

Essential questions: How might you form a proper adjective from a proper noun? Can you form the comparative and superlative forms of different adjectives and adverbs?

SPI 0601.1.4 Identify the correct use of prepositional phrases (place prepositional phrases correctly according to the words they modify within the sentence) within context.

Essential questions: How might the meaning of a sentence change if you move a prepositional phrase? Can you identify the word or words modified by a particular prepositional phrase?

SPI 0601.1.5 Identify the correct use of conjunctions (i.e., coordinating and subordinating) and interjections within context.

Essential questions: How could you correct a run-on sentence using punctuations and coordinating conjunctions? Can you combine two sentences using a subordinate conjunction?

SPI 0601.1.6 Choose the correct use of quotation marks, commas (i.e., in direct quotations, with explanatory material within the quote, proper use with end marks) and colons (i.e., in business letters, preceding a list of items).

Essential questions: How would the incorrect placement of quotation marks affect the meaning of a sentence? When is the use of quotation marks necessary?j Can you write a quote using explanatory words at the beginning, the middle, and the end?

SPI 0601.1.7 Identify within context a variety of appropriate sentence-combining techniques (i.e., comma + coordinating conjunctions, introductory words, appositives, interrupters).

Essential questions: How many different ways can you come up with to combine two declarative sentences? Can you take two sentences and combine them using an appositive?

SPI 0601.1.8 Select the most appropriate method to correct a run-on sentence (i.e., conjunctions, semicolons, and periods to join or separate elements).

Essential questions: Can you separate a run-on sentence into two complete sentences? Do you know when it is more appropriate to use a semicolon to correct a run-on sentence, or a comma and a coordinating conjunction?

SPI 0601.1.9 Recognize usage errors occurring within context (i.e., double negatives, troublesome words {to/too/two, their/there/they're, its/it's, sit/set, lie/lay, affect/effect, sit/set, lie/lay, may/can, leave/let, teach/learn, accept/except, capitol/capital, principle/principal, between/among}).

Essential questions: Can you differentiate between troublesome words and know which one needs to be used where? Can you correctly spell troublesome words in context?

SPI 0601.1.10 Identify the correct spelling of plurals and possessives.

Essential questions: When would you use a plural possessive, and can you spell it correctly? Can you tell when a plural possessive is being used incorrectly? Can you tell the difference between a plural or possessive?

SPI 0601.1.11 Identify sentences with correct subject-verb agreement (person/number) within context.

Essential questions: Can you choose the correct verb (person/number) that agrees with a given subject? Can you choose the correct subject (person/number) that agrees with a given verb?

SPI 0601.1.12 Identify the correct use of commas (i.e., jcompound sentences, jcoordinating conjunctions, introductory words, appositives, interrupters) within context.

Essential questions: Can you spot comma errors? Why might you want to use a comma?

SPI 0601.1.13 Choose the appropriate interjection to complete a sentence.

Essential questions: Can you choose an appropriate interjection for use in scholarly writing. When would you use an interjection?

SPI 0601.1.14 Select appropriate synonyms, antonyms, and homonyms within context.

Essential questions: Can you select an appropriate synonym for a given word? What is an appropriate antonym for a given word?

SPI 0601.1.15 Use context clues and prior knowledge of roots and affixes to determine the meaning of multi-meaning words.

Essential questions: Can you identify the root/base of a given word? If you are given a root, can you come up with other words that share the same root? Can you identify the meaning of a word root?

SPI 0601.1.16 Use context clues and prior knowledge of roots and affixes to determine the meaning of unfamiliar words.

Essential questions: Can you identify the root/base of a given word? Using the meaning of a root and affix, can you determine the meaning of an unfamiliar word?

SPI 0601.1.17 Use dictionaries, thesauruses, electronic sources, and glossaries as aids in determining the meaning of unfamiliar words.

Essential questions: What are some of the uses of a dictionary? When is it better to use a thesaurus or a dictionary?

SPI 0601.1.18 Identify correctly and incorrectly spelled words in context.

Essential questions: How can you tell if a word is misspelled?

SPI 0601.1.19 Recognize and use grade-appropriate and content-specific vocabulary within context.

Essential questions: Can you identify context clues to help you determine the meaning of vocabulary? Can you use grade appropriate vocabulary words in speaking and writing?

SPI 0601.1.20 Use knowledge of root words, affixes, syllabication, and/or spelling patterns as aids in determining meaning within context.

Essential questions: Can you identify the affixes in a group of similar words? Can you determine the number of syllables in a given word.