L.K.1.F Produce and expand complete sentences in shared language activities.

K(2)(D)(iii) Demonstrate print awareness by recognizing that sentences are comprised of words separated by spaces and recognizing word boundaries.

L.2.1 Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.

L.2.1.F Produce, expand, and rearrange complete simple and compound sentences (e.g., The boy watched the movie; The little boy watched the movie; The action movie was watched by the little boy).

L.1.1 Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.

L.1.1.J Produce and expand complete simple and compound declarative, interrogative, imperative, and exclamatory sentences in response to prompts.

1(11)(B)(ii) Develop drafts in oral, pictorial, or written form by developing an idea with specific and relevant details.

L.3.1.H Use coordinating and subordinating conjunctions.

L.3.1.H Use coordinating and subordinating conjunctions.

3(11)(D)(viii) Edit drafts using standard English conventions, including coordinating conjunctions to form compound subjects, predicates, and sentences.

L.3.1.A Explain the function of nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs in general and their functions in particular sentences.

L.3.1.I Produce simple, compound, and complex sentences.

L.4.2.C Use a comma before a coordinating conjunction in a compound sentence.

4(11)(D)(viii) Edit drafts using standard English conventions, including coordinating conjunctions to form compound subjects, predicates, and sentences.

L.5.3.A Expand, combine, and reduce sentences for meaning, reader/listener interest, and style.

L.6.1 Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.

L.6.3.A Vary sentence patterns for meaning, reader/listener interest, and style.*

PII.C.CCI.6.EMG (CCI.6 Connecting ideas) Combine clauses in a few basic ways to make connections between and join ideas (e.g., creating compound sentences using and, but, so).

C.5.F (Writing) write using a variety of grade-appropriate sentence lengths, patterns, and connecting words to combine phrases, clauses, and sentences in increasingly accurate ways as more English is acquired;

L.8.1 Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.

L.8.1.A Explain the function of verbals (gerunds, participles, infinitives) in general and their function in particular sentences.

PII.B.EEI.4.EMG (EEI.4 Using nouns and noun phrases) Expand noun phrases in simple ways (e.g., adding an adjective to a noun) in order to enrich the meaning of sentences and add details about ideas, people, things, etc.

PII.B.EEI.5.EMG (EEI.5 Modify to add details) Expand sentences with adverbials (e.g., adverbs, adverb phrases, prepositional phrases) to provide details (e.g., time, manner, place, cause, etc.) about a familiar activity or process (e.g., They walked to the soccer field.).