Standards

Florida Sunshine State Standards For Language Arts 6-8

LA.B.1.1.2
drafts and revises simple sentences and passages, stories, letters, and simple explanations that: express ideas clearly; show an awareness of topic and audience; have a beginning, middle, and ending; effectively use common words; have supporting detail; and are in legible printing.


LA.B.1.3.3.2
uses conventions of punctuation (including but not limited to commas, colons, semicolon, quotation marks, apostrophes).
LA.B.2.2.5
creates narratives in which ideas, details, and events are in a logical order and are relevant to the story line.
LA.D.2.2.1
reads text and determines the main idea or essential message, identifies relevant supporting details and facts, and arranges events in chronological order.
LA.B.1.1.3
produces final simple documents that have been edited for: correct spelling; appropriate end punctuation; correct capitalization of initial words, “I,” and names of people; correct sentence structure; and correct usage of age-appropriate verb/subject and noun/pronoun agreement.
LA.C.1.1.4
increases comprehension by rereading, retelling, and discussion.
LA.B.1.3.3
 The student produces final documents that have been edited for • correct spelling; • correct punctuation, including commas, colons, and semicolons; • correct capitalization; • effective sentence structure • correct common usage, including subject/verb agreement, common noun/pronoun agreement, common possessive forms, and with a variety of sentence structure, including parallel structure; and • correct formatting.
LA.B.1.3.3.7
 uses creative writing strategies appropriate to the format (for example, using appropriate voice; using descriptive language to clarify ideas and create vivid images; using elements of style, such as appropriate tone).
LA.C.1.3.1.3
 paraphrases information.
LA.C.2.1.1
 determines the main idea in a nonprint communication.
LA.C.3.3.3.1
 identifies the occasion, audience, and purpose for speaking.
LA.D.1.3.1
 The student understands that there are patterns and rules in semantic structure, symbols, sounds, and meanings conveyed through the English language.
LA.D.1.3.2
 The student demonstrates an awareness that language and literature are primary means by which culture is transmitted.
LA.D.1.3.4.1
 explores the origin and historical development of words and usage patterns.
LA.D.1.3.4.2
 identifies slang, both past and present.
LA.D.1.3.4.3
 analyzes words and sentence patterns that have changed in meaning over the years.
LA.D.2.3.1.2
 uses language appropriate to purpose and audience.