LANGUAGE COMPREHENSION

Critical Thinking

-Generating ideas, gathering information

-Writing processes: organizing, drafting, writing, revising

Syntax

-Grammar and syntactic awareness

-Sentence elaboration

-Punctuation

Text Structure

-Narrative, informational, opinion structure

-Paragraph structure

-Patterns of organization (description, sequence, cause/effect, compare/contrast, problem/solution)

-Linking and transition words

Writing Craft

-Word Choice

-Awareness of task, audience, purpose

-Literary devices

WORD RECOGNITION

Transcription

-Spelling

-Handwriting, keyboarding