Common Core Standards
Grade:
8th Grade
Standard:
CC.1.4.8.F
Description:
Demonstrate a grade-appropriate command of the conventions of standard English grammar,usage, capitalization, punctuation,and spelling.
E08.D.1.1.1 - Explain the function of verbals (i.e., gerunds, participles, and infinitives) in general and their function in particular sentences.
E08.D.1.1.2 - Form and use verbs in the active and passive voice.
E08.D.1.1.3 - Form and use verbs in the indicative, imperative, interrogative, conditional, and subjunctive mood.
E08.D.1.1.4 - Recognize and correct inappropriate shifts in verb voice and mood.*
E08.D.1.1.5 - Place phrases and clauses within a sentence, recognizing and correcting misplaced and dangling modifiers.*
E08.D.1.1.6 - Recognize and correct inappropriate shifts in pronoun number and person.*
E08.D.1.1.7 - Recognize and correct vague pronouns (i.e., ones with unclear or ambiguous antecedents).*
E08.D.1.1.8 - Recognize and correct inappropriate shifts in verb tense.*
E08.D.1.1.9 - Produce complete sentences, recognizing and correcting inappropriate fragments and run-on sentences.*
E08.D.1.1.10 - Correctly use frequently confused words (e.g., to, too, two; there, their, they’re).*
E08.D.1.1.11 - Ensure subject-verb and pronoun-antecedent agreement.*
E08.D.1.2.1 - Use punctuation (i.e., comma, ellipsis, and dash) to indicate a pause or break.
E08.D.1.2.2 -Use an ellipsis to indicate an omission.
E08.D.1.2.3 - Spell correctly.
E08.D.1.2.4 - Use punctuation (i.e., commas, parentheses, and dashes) to set off nonrestrictive/parenthetical elements.*
E08.D.1.2.5 - Use punctuation to separate items in a series.*
Standard:
CC.1.4.8.L
Description:
Demonstrate a grade-appropriate command of the conventions of standard English grammar,usage, capitalization, punctuation,and spelling.
E08.D.1.1.1 - Explain the function of verbals (i.e., gerunds, participles, and infinitives) in general and their function in particular sentences.
E08.D.1.1.2 - Form and use verbs in the active and passive voice.
E08.D.1.1.3 - Form and use verbs in the indicative, imperative, interrogative, conditional, and subjunctive mood.
E08.D.1.1.4 - Recognize and correct inappropriate shifts in verb voice and mood.*
E08.D.1.1.5 - Place phrases and clauses within a sentence, recognizing and correcting misplaced and dangling modifiers.*
E08.D.1.1.6 - Recognize and correct inappropriate shifts in pronoun number and person.*
E08.D.1.1.7 - Recognize and correct vague pronouns (i.e., ones with unclear or ambiguous antecedents).*
E08.D.1.1.8 - Recognize and correct inappropriate shifts in verb tense.*
E08.D.1.1.9 - Produce complete sentences, recognizing and correcting inappropriate fragments and run-on sentences.*
E08.D.1.1.10 - Correctly use frequently confused words (e.g., to, too, two; there, their, they’re).*
E08.D.1.1.11 - Ensure subject-verb and pronoun-antecedent agreement.*
E08.D.1.2.1 - Use punctuation (i.e., comma, ellipsis, and dash) to indicate a pause or break.
E08.D.1.2.2 -Use an ellipsis to indicate an omission.
E08.D.1.2.3 - Spell correctly.
E08.D.1.2.4 - Use punctuation (i.e., commas, parentheses, and dashes) to set off nonrestrictive/parenthetical elements.*
E08.D.1.2.5 - Use punctuation to separate items in a series.*
Standard:
CC.1.4.8.R
Description:
Demonstrate a grade-appropriate command of the conventions of standard English grammar,usage, capitalization, punctuation,and spelling.
E08.D.1.1.1 - Explain the function of verbals (i.e., gerunds, participles, and infinitives) in general and their function in particular sentences.
E08.D.1.1.2 - Form and use verbs in the active and passive voice.
E08.D.1.1.3 - Form and use verbs in the indicative, imperative, interrogative, conditional, and subjunctive mood.
E08.D.1.1.4 - Recognize and correct inappropriate shifts in verb voice and mood.*
E08.D.1.1.5 - Place phrases and clauses within a sentence, recognizing and correcting misplaced and dangling modifiers.*
E08.D.1.1.6 - Recognize and correct inappropriate shifts in pronoun number and person.*
E08.D.1.1.7 - Recognize and correct vague pronouns (i.e., ones with unclear or ambiguous antecedents).*
E08.D.1.1.8 - Recognize and correct inappropriate shifts in verb tense.*
E08.D.1.1.9 - Produce complete sentences, recognizing and correcting inappropriate fragments and run-on sentences.*
E08.D.1.1.10 - Correctly use frequently confused words (e.g., to, too, two; there, their, they’re).*
E08.D.1.1.11 - Ensure subject-verb and pronoun-antecedent agreement.*
E08.D.1.2.1 - Use punctuation (i.e., comma, ellipsis, and dash) to indicate a pause or break.
E08.D.1.2.2 -Use an ellipsis to indicate an omission.
E08.D.1.2.3 - Spell correctly.
E08.D.1.2.4 - Use punctuation (i.e., commas, parentheses, and dashes) to set off nonrestrictive/parenthetical elements.*
E08.D.1.2.5 - Use punctuation to separate items in a series.*
Standard:
ELA.8.C.3.1
Description:
Follow the rules of standard English grammar, punctuation, capitalization, and spelling appropriate to grade level.
Standard:
8.20
Description:
Students write legibly and use appropriate capitalization and punctuation conventions in their compositions.
Standard:
8.20.A
Description:
use conventions of capitalization;
Standard:
8.10.D
Description:
edit drafts using standard English conventions, including:
complete complex sentences with subject-verb agreement and avoidance of splices, run-ons, and fragments; consistent, appropriate use of verb tenses and active and passive voice; prepositions and prepositional phrases and their influence on subject-verb agreement; pronoun-antecedent agremment; correct capitalization; punctuation, including commas in nonrestrictive phrases and clauses, semicolons, colons, and parentheses; and correct spelling, including commonly confused terms such as its/it's, affect/effect, there/their/they're, and to/two/too;
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8th Grade Writing - Capitalization Lesson
CAPITALIZATION Certain words should always begin with a capital letter .
Always capitalize the first word quotation mark if what follows is a complete sentence.
The first word name first word
Proper nouns specific people , places , and things , should always be capitalized.
G W J G B R
C K S C P G
F .S F E .B .W S L .J
G L E D D T U S
E S B M R L M
M R G C N F
W W F B U I R S
P T O
T M F S G
The names of days months holidays
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8th Grade Writing - Capitalization Lesson