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Language Arts

Assessment Exam - SAT Writing
Expression of Ideas eTAP Lesson
The student will add, revise, or retain central ideas, main claims, counterclaims, topic sentences, and the like to structure text and convey arguments, information, and ideas clearly and effectively.
Development - Proposition
SAT.Writing.1.1.a
 
The student will add, revise, or retain information and ideas (e.g., details, facts, statistics) intended to support claims or points in text.
Development - Support
SAT.Writing.1.1.b
Structure and Format of Functional Documents
The student will add, revise, retain, or delete information and ideas in text for the sake of relevance to topic and purpose.
Development - Focus
SAT.Writing.1.1.c
Paraphrase a Speaker's Purpose and Point of View
The student will relate information presented quantitatively in such forms as graphs, charts, and tables to information presented in text.
Development - Quantitative Information
SAT.Writing.1.1.d
Strategies Used by the Media
The student will revise text as needed to ensure that information and ideas are presented in the most logical order.
Organization - Logical Sequence
SAT.Writing.1.2.a
Persuasive Arguments
The student will revise text as needed to improve the beginning or ending of a text or paragraph and to ensure that transition words, phrases, or sentences are used effectively to connect information and ideas.
Organization - Introductions, Conclusions, and Transitions
SAT.Writing.1.2.b
Appropriate Techniques for Developing the Introduction and Conclusion
The student will revise text as needed to improve the exactness or content appropriateness of word choice.
Effective Language Use - Precision
SAT.Writing.1.3.a
Effective and Interesting Language
The student will revise text as needed to improve the economy of word choice (i.e., to eliminate wordiness and redundancy).
Effective Language Use - Concision
SAT.Writing.1.3.b
Concise Notes
The student will revise text as necessary to ensure consistency of style and tone within a text or to improve the match of style and tone to purpose.
Effective Language Use - Style and Tone
SAT.Writing.1.3.c
Reaching Rhetorical and Aesthetic Purposes
The student will use various sentence structures to accomplish needed rhetorical purposes.
Effective Language Use - Syntax
SAT.Writing.1.3.d
Modifiers Using Active Voice

Critique a Speaker’s Diction and Syntax
Standard English Conventions eTAP Lesson
The student will recognize and correct grammatically incomplete sentences (e.g., rhetorically inappropriate fragments and run-ons).
Sentence Structure - Sentence Formation, Sentence Boundaries
SAT.Writing.2.1.a.i
Understand Sentence Construction

Mechanics of Writing
The student will recognize and correct problems in coordination and subordination in sentences.
Sentence Structure - Sentence Formation, Subordination and Coordination
SAT.Writing.2.1.a.ii
Identify Correctly Used Clauses
The student will recognize and correct problems in parallel structure in sentences.
Sentence Structure - Sentence Formation, Parallel Structure
SAT.Writing.2.1.a.iii
 
The student will recognize and correct problems in modifier placement (e.g., misplaced or dangling modifiers).
Sentence Structure - Sentence Formation, Modifier Placement
SAT.Writing.2.1.a.iv
Modifiers Using Active Voice
The student will recognize and correct inappropriate shifts in verb tense, voice, and mood within and between sentences.
Sentence Structure - Inappropriate Shifts and Construction; Verb Tense, Mood, and Voice
SAT.Writing.2.1.b.i
Active Voice

Parts of Speech
The student will recognize and correct inappropriate shifts in pronoun person and number within and between sentences.
Sentence Structure - Inappropriate Shifts and Construction; Pronoun Person and Number
SAT.Writing.2.1.b.ii
 
The student will recognize and correct pronouns with unclear or ambiguous antecedents.
Conventions of Usage - Pronouns/Pronoun Clarity
SAT.Writing.2.2.a
Revise Text to Highlight the Individual Voice, Improve Sentence Variety and Style
The student will recognize and correct cases in which possessive determiners (its, your, their), contractions (it’s, you’re, they’re), and adverbs (there) are confused with each other.
Conventions of Usage - Possessive Determiners
SAT.Writing.2.2.b
 
The student will recognize and correct lack of agreement between pronoun and antecedent.
Conventions of Usage - Agreement, Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement
SAT.Writing.2.2.c.i
Pronouns
The student will recognize and correct lack of agreement between subject and verb.
Conventions of Usage - Agreement, Subject-Verb Agreement
SAT.Writing.2.2.c.ii
Verbs
The student will recognize and correct lack of agreement between nouns.
Conventions of Usage - Agreement, Noun Agreement
SAT.Writing.2.2.c.iii
Nouns
The student will recognize and correct instances in which a word or phrase is confused with another (e.g., accept/except, allusion/illusion).
Conventions of Usage - Frequently Confused Words
SAT.Writing.2.2.d
Ambiguities, Subtleties, Ironies
The student will recognize and correct cases in which unlike terms are compared.
Conventions of Usage - Logical Comparison
SAT.Writing.2.2.e
Logical Fallacies Used in Oral Addresses
The student will recognize and correct cases in which a given expression is inconsistent with Standard Written English.
Conventions of Usage - Conventional Expression
SAT.Writing.2.2.f
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The student will recognize and correct inappropriate uses of ending punctuation in cases in which the context makes the intent clear.
Conventions of Punctuation - End-of-Sentence Punctuation
SAT.Writing.2.3.a
Period/Exclamation Point/Question Mark
The student will correctly use and recognize and correct inappropriate uses of colons, semicolons, and dashes to indicate sharp breaks in thought within sentences.
Conventions of Punctuation - Within-Sentence Punctuation
SAT.Writing.2.3.b
Apostrophes

Hyphens, Dashes, and Brackets

Colons and Semicolons
The student will recognize and correct inappropriate uses of possessive nouns and pronouns as well as differentiate between possessive and plural forms.
Conventions of Punctuation - Possessive Nouns and Pronouns
SAT.Writing.2.3.c
Pronouns
The student will correctly use and recognize and correct inappropriate uses of punctuation (commas and sometimes semicolons) to separate items in a series.
Conventions of Punctuation - Items in a Series
SAT.Writing.2.3.d
Mechanics of Writing
The student will correctly use punctuation (commas, parentheses, dashes) to set off nonrestrictive and parenthetical sentence elements as well as recognize and correct cases in which restrictive or essential sentence elements are inappropriately set off with punctuation.
Conventions of Punctuation - Nonrestrictive and Parenthetical Elements
SAT.Writing.2.3.e
Parentheses
The student will recognize and correct cases in which unnecessary punctuation appears in a sentence.
Conventions of Punctuation - Unnecessary Punctuation
SAT.Writing.2.3.f
Colons and Semicolons