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Colorado Model Content Standards: Writing Level 7
2 Students write and speak for a variety of purposes and audiences.ES
2.a Write in a variety of genre such as personal narratives, informational brochures, essays, stories, and letters for specific purposes (for example: to entertain, to inform, or to persuade). ES
2.b Develop ideas and content with significant details, examples, and/or reasons.ES
2.c Organize ideas so that there is an inviting introduction, logical arrangement of ideas, and a satisfying conclusion. ES
2.d Use transitions to link ideas.ES
2.e Plan, draft, revise and edit for a legible final copy.ES
2.f Use a variety of sentence structures with varied length. ES
2.h Choose a range of words that are precise and vivid.ES
3 Students write and speak using conventional grammar, usage, sentence structure, punctuation, capitalization, and spelling. ES
3.a Identify parts of speech, such as nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, conjunctions, prepositions, and interjections. ES
3.b Use standard English usage in writing, including subject/verb agreement (pronoun referents, modifiers, homonyms, and homophones).ES
3.c Write in complete sentences. ES
3.d Use paragraphs correctly so that each paragraph is differentiated by indenting or blocking and includes one major but focused idea.ES
3.e Use conventional spelling.ES
3.f Punctuate correctly (for example: apostrophes, quotation marks, end marks, capitalization, and commas).ES
