Conventions of Standard English

Acronyms

Phrases and clauses

Dependent/independent clause and complex sentences

Abbreviations

Spelling practice: Endings - doubling a consonant and dropping the letter “e”

Spelling practice: tion/sion/cian word parts

Parts of speech

Spelling practice: Y to i; adding suffixes to words

Letter Aa

Letter Bb

Letter Cc

Letter Dd

Letter Ee

Letter Ff

Letter Gg

Letter Hh

Letter Ii

Letter Jj

Letter Kk

Letter Ll

Letter Mm

Letter Nn

Letter Oo

Letter Pp

Letter Qq

Letter Rr

Letter Ss

Letter Tt

Letter Uu

Letter Vv

Letter Ww

Letter Xx

Letter Yy

Letter Zz

Verb moods

Use punctuation to indicate a pause or a break

Punctuating nonrestrictive elements

Commas and quotation marks in dialogue

Misplaced and dangling modifiers

Verbals

Verbs in the active and passive voice

Citing text and speech with commas and quotation marks

Function of prepositions in sentences

Separating coordinate adjectives

Print the letter Bb

Irregular comparative and superlative adjectives

Modal auxiliaries: will, would, shall, ought to

Comma usage

Using ellipses

Frequently occurring nouns and verbs

Print the letter Zz

Print the letter Yy

Print the letter Qq

Respond to prompts with a variety of sentence types

Print the letter Kk

Commas before coordinating conjunctions

Print the letter Ww

Print the letter Uu

Print the letter Tt

Print the letter Ss

Print the letter Rr

Print the letter Pp

Print the letter Nn

Print the letter Oo

Print the letter Vv

Print upper- and lowercase Jj

Expand and rearrange simple and compound sentences

Print the letter Ll

Spell high-frequency words with suffixes (Part 1)

Spell high-frequency words with suffixes (Part 2)

Read third grade irregularly spelled words

Recognize and read irregularly spelled words

Print the letter Mm

Commas to separate introductory words, phrases, & clauses

Print the letter Ii

Inappropriate shifts in verb tense

Complex sentences

Generalize spelling patterns

Print the letter Hh

Commas in greetings and closings of letters

Use frequently occurring prepositions

Print the letter Gg

Produce and expand complete sentences

Simple and compound sentences

Print the letter Ff

Write a letter or letters for consonants or short vowels

Spell frequently occurring irregular words

Spell words with common spelling patterns

Letter Songs

Spell simple words phonetically

Form plural nouns orally with /s/ and /es/

Modal auxiliaries: Can/may, might/must, could/should

How to write titles of works

Print the letter Ee

Print the letter Dd

Progressive verb tenses

Prepositions

Function of subordinating conjunctions

Choose between adjectives and adverbs to modify

Apostrophe to form frequently occurring possessives

Frequently occurring nouns

Inappropriate shifts in pronoun number and person

Print the letter Cc

Choose comparative or superlative to modify

Capitalize holidays, product names, and geographic names

Vague pronouns

Correlative conjunctions

Pronoun case

Interjections

Function of coordinating conjunctions in sentences

Articles (a, an, the)

Use demonstratives

Commas, colons, and semicolons in a series

Perfect verb tenses

Coordinating and subordinating conjunctions

Relative pronouns

Pronoun-antecedent agreement

Intensive pronouns

Commas in addresses

Reflexive pronouns

Frequently occurring prepositions

Comparative and superlative adverbs

Relative adverbs

The function of pronouns in sentences

The letter Aa

Commas in a series

Capitalize dates and names of people

Question words

It's, its, you're, and your

Simple verb tenses

Declarative, interrogative, imperative, exclamatory sentences

Comparative and superlative adjectives

Past tense of irregular verbs

Past, present, and future verbs

Two, to, and too

Function of nouns and verbs in sentences

Review simple, compound, and complex sentences

Singular and plural nouns with matching verbs

Possessive nouns

Indefinite pronouns

Possessive pronouns

Regular and irregular verbs

Recognize and name end punctuation

Adverbs

Order of adjectives

Personal pronouns

Collective nouns

Adjectives

Subject-verb agreement

Commas in dates

Abstract nouns

Irregular plural nouns

Frequently occurring conjunctions

Frequently occurring adjectives

Capitalize first word and letter I

Apostrophe to form contractions

Form and use possessives

Prepositional phrases

Capitalize titles

Review capitalization

Use correct capitalization

Recognize and correct run-ons

Recognize and correct fragments

Writing dialogue tags

Use common and proper nouns

Features of a sentence: End punctuation

Sentence types

Verbs