ELA.4.C.1.5 4.11.c 4.11.d

Revising and Editing 4th Grade

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 4.11.c
revise drafts to improve sentence structure and word choice by adding, deleting, combining, and rearranging ideas for coherence and clarity;
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 4.11.d
edit drafts using standard English conventions, including: (i) complete simple and compound sentences with subject-verb agreement and avoidance of splices, run-ons, and fragments; (ii) past tense of irregular verbs; (iii) singular, plural, common, and proper nouns; (iv) adjectives, including their comparative and superlative forms; (v) adverbs that convey frequency and adverbs that convey degree; (vi) prepositions and prepositional phrases; (vii) pronouns, including reflexive; (viii) coordinating conjunctions to form compound subjects, predicates, and sentences; (ix) capitalization of historical periods, events, and documents; titles of books; stories and essays; and languages, races, and nationalities; (x) punctuation marks, including apostrophes in possessives, commas in compound sentences, and quotation marks in dialogue; and (xi) correct spelling of words with grade-appropriate orthographic patterns and rules and high-frequency words; and
Florida - Benchmarks for Excellent Student Thinking: ELA.4.C.1.5
Improve writing by planning, revising, and editing, with guidance and support from adults and feedback from peers.

Revising and Editing