Kentucky Reading and Writing L.11-12.2

ELAGrades 11–12Language

The Standard

When writing: Demonstrate command of the conventions of General American English capitalization, punctuation and spelling when writing.

Kentucky Academic Standards for Reading and Writing (2025) · Conventions of General American English

Teacher's field guide

What Students Need to Do: Students check their writing for correct capitals, punctuation, and spelling. They fix errors such as comma splices, missing apostrophes, and misspelled words.
What Mastery Looks Like: A student can proofread a draft without waiting for a teacher to mark each error. They capitalize names and days, separate complete sentences correctly, and check uncertain spellings.
Common Misconceptions: Students may put a comma between two complete sentences when they need a period or semicolon. They may confuse its and it's, or trust spellcheck when a wrong word is spelled correctly.
How to Assess It: Ask students to correct this sentence and name each change: “last friday, maya revised her application, its due on monday.”

Lesson moves

Give pairs printed sentence strips with errors; have them mark corrections in colored pen and compare their edits.
Ask, “Why can’t a comma join these two complete sentences?” and have students revise an example in two ways.
Run a five-minute edit race with cards showing its/it's, their/they're, missing capitals, and comma splices.
Have students draft an email to a potential employer, then proofread its names, dates, punctuation, and spelling before sending.

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