Educational Psychology

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1.2 Identify subjects and verbs that are in agreement

and identify and use pronouns, adjectives, compound

words, and articles correctly in writing and speaking.

1.3 Identify and use past, present, and future verb

tenses properly in writing and speaking.

1.4 Identify and use subjects and verbs correctly in

speaking and writing simple sentences.

Punctuation

1.5 Punctuate dates, city and state, and titles of

books correctly.

1.6 Use commas in dates, locations, and addresses

and for items in a series.

Capitalization

1.7 Capitalize geographical names, holidays,

historical periods, and special events correctly.

Spelling

1.8 Spell correctly one-syllable words that have

blends, contractions, compounds, orthographic patters,

and common homophones.

1.9 Arrange words in alphabetical order.

Teachers’ need for detailed activity suggestions is more likely to be met by a curriculum guide, a document
devoted to graphic descriptions of activities that foster or encourage the specific skills explained in a curriculum
framework document. The descriptions may mention or list curriculum goals served by an activity, but they are also
likely to specify materials that a teacher needs, time requirements, requirements for grouping students, drawings or
diagrams of key equipment or materials, and sometimes even suggestions for what to say to students at different
points during the activity. In these ways the descriptions may resemble lesson plans.

Since classroom activities often support more than one specific skill, activities in a curriculum guide may be
organized differently than they might be in a framework document. Instead of highlighting only one standard at a
time, as the framework document might, activities may be grouped more loosely—for example, according to the
dominant purpose or goal of an activity (“Activities that encourage the practice of math facts”) or according to a
dominant piece of equipment or material (“Ten activities with tin cans”). Table 30 shows a description of a

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