Common Core State Standards

Use knowledge of language and its conventions when writing, speaking, reading, or listening.

Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.

Provide a sense of closure.

Use temporal words and phrases to signal event order.

Use dialogue and descriptions of actions, thoughts, and feelings to develop experiences and events or show the response of characters to situations.

Establish a situation and introduce a narrator and/or characters; organize an event sequence that unfolds naturally.

Provide a concluding statement or section.

Use linking words and phrases (e.g., also, another, and, more, but) to connect ideas within categories of information.

Explain their own ideas and understanding in light of the discussion.

Describe the relationship between a series of historical events, scientific ideas or concepts, or steps in technical procedures in a text, using language that pertains to time, sequence, and cause/effect.