Curriculum Ladders for Language 2-12

Capitalization:

• First Word Rules
• Proper Nouns, Personal Titles, and the Pronoun “I”
• Quotations and Dialogue
• Titles of Works
• Editing and Proofreading

Punctuation:

• Apostrophes
• Brackets, Dashes, Hyphens, Ellipses, Parentheses
• Colons, Semicolons
• Commas
• Contractions
• Editing and Proofreading
• Ending Punctuation
• Initials and Abbreviations
• Multiple Punctuation Rules
• Quotation Marks and Dialogue
• Underlining

Spelling:

• Editing and Proofreading
• Frequently Confused Words
• Initials and Abbreviations
• Affixes and Roots
• Commonly Misspelled Words
• Compound Words
• Patterns
• Plurals

Nouns and Pronouns:

• Agreement
• Editing and Proofreading
• Nouns
• Pronouns
• Revising

Verbs:

• Agreement
• Editing and Proofreading
• Revising
• Verbs

Adjectives and Adverbs:

• Adjectives
• Adverbs
• Editing and Proofreading

Prepositions, Conjunctions, and Interjections:

• Prepositions, Conjunctions, Interjections

Phrases and Clauses:

• Clauses
• Modifers
• Phrases
• Prepositions, Conjunctions, Interjections
• Revising
• Sentence Completeness
• Sentence Structure
• Subject and Predicate

Sentence Structure, Sentence Types, and Meaning:

• Editing and Proofreading
• Parallelism
• Sentence Completeness
• Sentence Meaning
• Sentence Structure
• Sentence Types
• Syntax

Subject-Verb Agreement:

• Agreement
• Editing and Proofreading

Prewriting and Planning; Research:

• Main Ideas, Topic Sentence, Supporting Details
• Prewriting
• Research Questions, Sources, Thesis Statement
• Writing Forms: Genres
• Writing Process
• Writing Techniques: Rhetorical Strategies

Genres:

• Writing Forms: Genres

Organize; Use Transitions:

• Introductions, Transitions, Conclusions
• Organizing Writing
• Revising

Develop Thesis or Topic, Provide Supporting Details, and Draft:

• Drafting
• Main Ideas, Topic Sentence, Supporting Details
• Revising
• Writing Techniques: Argument and Counterargument
• Writing Techniques: Literary Elements

Purpose, Audience, Style, and Tone:

• Revising
• Writing Forms: Genres
• Writing Techniques: Argument and Counterargument
• Writing Techniques: Figurative and Descriptive Language
• Writing Techniques: Literary and Poetic Devices
• Writing Techniques: Literary Elements
• Writing Techniques: Point of View
• Writing Techniques: Rhetorical Strategies
• Writing Techniques: Voice, Style, Tone, and Mood