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Scott Foresman Spelling
Alabama Course of Study: English Language Arts
• Punctuating titles correctly using quotation marks, underlining, or italics
Examples: quotation marks—short stories; underlining or italics—books,
magazines, newspapers
TE: 61, 214-215
The reports and reviews on these pages provide students with the opportunity to
fulfill this objective.
• Using semicolons, conjunctive adverbs, and commas to join two
independent clauses or to correct run-on sentences
TE: 46, 84, 244
• Demonstrating correct sentence structure by avoiding comma splices
TE: 46
• Using commas to set off nonessential clauses and appositives
TE: 20, 146, 154
These pages discuss commas and thus provide students with the opportunity to
fulfill this objective.
11. Apply grammar conventions in writing to pronoun-antecedent agreement and
to subject-verb agreement with inverted word order and with indefinite pronouns
as subjects.
TE: 94, 128
• Identifying gerunds, infinitives, and participles in writing
TE: 235, 238-241
These pages discuss sentences and thus provide student with the opportunity to
fulfill this objective.
• Using degrees of comparison in writing Examples: good, better, best;
beautiful, more beautiful, most beautiful
TE: 28
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