Texas 9th Grade ELA Standards in Oral and Written Conventions

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9 Oral and Written Conventions

• 17 Students understand the function of and use the conventions of academic language when speaking and writing. Students will 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 more complex active and passive tenses and verbals (gerunds, infinitives, participles);
    • ii restrictive and nonrestrictive relative clauses; and
    • iii reciprocal pronouns (e.g., each other, one another);
  • B identify and use the subjunctive mood to express doubts, wishes, and possibilities; and
  • C use a variety of correctly structured sentences (e.g., compound, complex, compound-complex).
• 18 Students write legibly and use appropriate capitalization and punctuation conventions in their compositions.
  • A use conventions of capitalization; and
  • B use correct punctuation marks including:
    • i quotation marks to indicate sarcasm or irony;
    • ii comma placement in nonrestrictive phrases, clauses, and contrasting expressions; and
    • iii dashes to emphasize parenthetical information.
• 19 Students spell correctly. Students are expected to spell correctly, including using various resources to determine and check correct spellings.