Texas 4th Grade ELA Standards in Oral and Written Conventions

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4 Oral and Written Conventions

• 20 Students understand the function of and use the conventions of academic language when speaking and writing. Students continue to apply earlier standards with greater complexity.
  • A use and understand the function of the following parts of speech in the context of reading, writing, and speaking:
    • i verbs (irregular verbs);
    • ii nouns (singular/plural, common/proper);
    • iii adjectives (e.g., descriptive, including purpose: sleeping bag, frying pan) and their comparative and superlative forms (e.g., fast, faster, fastest);
    • iv adverbs (e.g., frequency: usually, sometimes; intensity: almost, a lot);
    • v prepositions and prepositional phrases to convey location, time, direction, or to provide details;
    • vi reflexive pronouns (e.g., myself, ourselves);
    • vii correlative conjunctions (e.g., either/or, neither/nor); and
    • viii use time-order transition words and transitions that indicate a conclusion;
  • B use the complete subject and the complete predicate in a sentence; and
  • V use complete simple and compound sentences with correct subject-verb agreement.
• 21 Students write legibly and use appropriate capitalization and punctuation conventions in their compositions.
  • A write legibly by selecting cursive script or manuscript printing as appropriate;
  • B use capitalization for:
    • i historical events and documents;
    • ii titles of books, stories, and essays; and
    • iii languages, races, and nationalities; and
  • C recognize and use punctuation marks including:
    • i commas in compound sentences; and
    • ii quotation marks.
• 22 Students spell correctly.
  • A spell words with more advanced orthographic patterns and rules:
    • i plural rules (e.g., words ending in f as in leaf, leaves; adding -es);
    • ii irregular plurals (e.g., man/men, foot/feet, child/children);
    • iii double consonants in middle of words;
    • iv other ways to spell sh (e.g., -sion, -tion, -cian); and
    • v silent letters (e.g., knee, wring);
  • B spell base words and roots with affixes (e.g., -ion, -ment, -ly, dis-, pre-);
  • C spell commonly used homophones (e.g., there, they’re, their; two, too, to); and