WR09 Standards

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Colorado Model Content Standards: Writing Level 9

Standard 2

Students write and speak for a variety of purposes and audiences.

2 Students write and speak for a variety of purposes and audiences.

2.a Write in a variety of genres such as editorials, personal narratives, essays, stories, and letters for specific purposes (for example: to analyze, to evaluate, to entertain, to inform, to persuade, or to explain).

2.b1 Organize writing using a variety of text structures (for example: compare/contrast or problem/solution).

2.b2 Organize writing so that it has an engaging introduction, development of ideas, and purposeful conclusion.

2.c Use vivid and precise language and imagery as appropriate to audience and purpose.

2.d Plan, draft, revise and edit for a legible final copy.

2.e Write in format (for example: letters, lab reports, business communications, summaries and essays) and voice appropriate to purpose and audience.

2.f Vary sentence structure and length to enhance meaning, clarity and fluency.

2.g Develop main ideas and content with relevant support and explanation in response to a prompt.

Standard 3

Students write and speak using conventional grammar, usage, sentence structure, punctuation, capitalization, and spelling.

3 Students write and speak using conventional grammar, usage, sentence structure, punctuation, capitalization, and spelling.

3.a Edit for conventional grammar.

3.b Use standard English usage in writing, including pronoun/antecedent agreement, subject/verb agreement, regular/irregular verbs, and correct modifiers.

3.c Write in complete sentences.

3.d Use conventions correctly (for example: commas, quotation marks, apostrophes, underlining/italics, capitalization, end marks, colons, semi-colons).

3.e Use conventional spelling.

3.f Use paragraphing correctly so that each paragraph is differentiated by indenting or blocking and includes one major, focused idea.