Kentucky Reading and Writing L.4.1

L.4.1 is a cluster heading. These are the individual standards under it.

• L.4.1.b

  Use the progressive verb tenses.

• L.4.1.e

  Use prepositional phrases.

01

What Students Need to Do

Students write and say complete sentences, fixing fragments and run-ons. They add details with who, which, or where, and use forms like was running to show an action in progress. They choose can, may, or must by meaning, order adjectives, add prepositional phrases, and check words like to, too, and two.

02

What Mastery Looks Like

A student can write, "The two small dogs were running under the table," with correct adjective order, verb tense, and a prepositional phrase. They can add "that barked" after dogs or "where they hid" after a place. They repair fragments and comma splices, and choose may for a possibility and their for ownership.

03

Common Misconceptions

Students use where for a person or write "they was walking" instead of "they were walking." They put "red small bag" instead of "small red bag," or treat "under the desk" as a sentence. They join complete thoughts with a comma and mix up to, too, and two or there, their, and they're.

04

How to Assess It

Exit ticket: Fix "Their going too the park, they is carrying two red small bags near the gate." Then write one sentence using where and may to tell where they might stop.

1. 01

   Hand pairs word cards reading "The," "small," "blue," "backpack," "was sitting," "under," "the," and "desk" to arrange into a sentence.

2. 02

   Ask students to write two sentences about a missing key, one using who and one using where, then explain their choices.

3. 03

   Play sentence repair: teams fix "There going too the park, they must brings two bags" and explain each change.

4. 04

   Show a lost-item notice and have students write two complete clues using adjective order, a prepositional phrase, and may for uncertain details.

• L.3.1

  The 3rd Grade version of this standard.

• L.3.3.b

  Recognize and observe differences between the conventions of spoken and written General American English.

• L.2.1

  In writing or speaking, demonstrate appropriate use of:

• L.5.1

  The 5th Grade version of this standard.