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Subject Area - CC.1:
English Language Arts
  • Standard Area - CC.1.4: Writing: Students write for different purposes and audiences. Students write clear and focused text to convey a well-defined perspective and appropriate content.
  • Grade Level - CC.1.4.3: GRADE 3
Standard - CC.1.4.3.A

Write informative/ explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas and information clearly.

PASA DLM
Essential Elements (EE)
Standard - CC.1.4.3.B

Identify and introduce the topic.

Eligible Content:
4 Total
Assessments
Materials & Resources
  • Anchor Descriptor - E03.C.1.1 Write opinion pieces on topics or texts, supporting a point of view with reasons.
    • Eligible Content - E03.C.1.1.1 Introduce the topic or text for the intended audience, state an opinion, and create an organizational structure that lists reasons to support the writer’s purpose.
      • Alternate Eligible Content - E03.C.1.1.1a Identify one opinion.
        Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
    • Eligible Content - E03.C.1.1.2 Provide reasons that support the opinion.
      Continuum of Activities
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      • Alternate Eligible Content - E03.C.1.1.2a Support opinion with at least one detail.
        Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
    • Eligible Content - E03.C.1.1.3 Use linking words and phrases (e.g., because, therefore, since, for example) to connect an opinion and reasons.
      • Alternate Eligible Content - E03.C.1.1.3a Identify a linking word.
        Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
    • Eligible Content - E03.C.1.1.4 Provide a concluding statement or section.
  • Anchor Descriptor - E03.C.1.2 Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas and information clearly.
    • Eligible Content - E03.C.1.2.1 Introduce a topic for the intended audience, and group related information together to support the writer’s purpose.
      • Alternate Eligible Content - E03.C.1.2.1a Indentify one topic.
        Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
    • Eligible Content - E03.C.1.2.2 Develop the topic with facts, definitions, and/or details.
      • Alternate Eligible Content - E03.C.1.2.2a Support topic with at least one detail.
        Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
    • Eligible Content - E03.C.1.2.3 Use linking words and phrases (e.g., also, another, and, more, but) to connect ideas within categories of information.
      • Alternate Eligible Content - E03.C.1.2.3a Identify a linking word.
        Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
    • Eligible Content - E03.C.1.2.4 Provide a concluding statement or section.
  • Anchor Descriptor - E03.C.1.3 Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences.
    • Eligible Content - E03.C.1.3.1 Orient the reader by establishing a situation and introducing a narrator and/or characters; organize an event sequence that unfolds naturally to support the writer’s purpose.
      • Alternate Eligible Content - E03.C.1.3.1a Indentify one situation to describe.
        Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
      • Alternate Eligible Content - E03.C.1.3.1b Identify an event in the sequence.
        Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
    • Eligible Content - E03.C.1.3.2 Use descriptions of actions, thoughts, feelings, and other narrative techniques, such as dialogue, to develop experiences and events or to show the response of characters to situations.
      Continuum of Activities
      Materials & Resources
    • Eligible Content - E03.C.1.3.3 Use temporal words and phrases to signal event order.
    • Eligible Content - E03.C.1.3.4 Provide a sense of closure.
      Continuum of Activities
      Materials & Resources
      • Alternate Eligible Content - E03.C.1.3.4a Identify an ending.
        Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
Standard - CC.1.4.3.C

Develop the topic with facts, definitions, details, and illustrations, as appropriate.

Eligible Content:
4 Total
Assessments
Materials & Resources
  • Anchor Descriptor - E03.C.1.1 Write opinion pieces on topics or texts, supporting a point of view with reasons.
    • Eligible Content - E03.C.1.1.1 Introduce the topic or text for the intended audience, state an opinion, and create an organizational structure that lists reasons to support the writer’s purpose.
      • Alternate Eligible Content - E03.C.1.1.1a Identify one opinion.
        Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
    • Eligible Content - E03.C.1.1.2 Provide reasons that support the opinion.
      Continuum of Activities
      Materials & Resources
      • Alternate Eligible Content - E03.C.1.1.2a Support opinion with at least one detail.
        Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
    • Eligible Content - E03.C.1.1.3 Use linking words and phrases (e.g., because, therefore, since, for example) to connect an opinion and reasons.
      • Alternate Eligible Content - E03.C.1.1.3a Identify a linking word.
        Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
    • Eligible Content - E03.C.1.1.4 Provide a concluding statement or section.
  • Anchor Descriptor - E03.C.1.2 Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas and information clearly.
    • Eligible Content - E03.C.1.2.1 Introduce a topic for the intended audience, and group related information together to support the writer’s purpose.
      • Alternate Eligible Content - E03.C.1.2.1a Indentify one topic.
        Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
    • Eligible Content - E03.C.1.2.2 Develop the topic with facts, definitions, and/or details.
      • Alternate Eligible Content - E03.C.1.2.2a Support topic with at least one detail.
        Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
    • Eligible Content - E03.C.1.2.3 Use linking words and phrases (e.g., also, another, and, more, but) to connect ideas within categories of information.
      • Alternate Eligible Content - E03.C.1.2.3a Identify a linking word.
        Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
    • Eligible Content - E03.C.1.2.4 Provide a concluding statement or section.
  • Anchor Descriptor - E03.C.1.3 Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences.
    • Eligible Content - E03.C.1.3.1 Orient the reader by establishing a situation and introducing a narrator and/or characters; organize an event sequence that unfolds naturally to support the writer’s purpose.
      • Alternate Eligible Content - E03.C.1.3.1a Indentify one situation to describe.
        Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
      • Alternate Eligible Content - E03.C.1.3.1b Identify an event in the sequence.
        Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
    • Eligible Content - E03.C.1.3.2 Use descriptions of actions, thoughts, feelings, and other narrative techniques, such as dialogue, to develop experiences and events or to show the response of characters to situations.
      Continuum of Activities
      Materials & Resources
    • Eligible Content - E03.C.1.3.3 Use temporal words and phrases to signal event order.
    • Eligible Content - E03.C.1.3.4 Provide a sense of closure.
      Continuum of Activities
      Materials & Resources
      • Alternate Eligible Content - E03.C.1.3.4a Identify an ending.
        Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
Standard - CC.1.4.3.D

Create an organizational structure that includes information grouped and connected logically with a concluding statement or section.

Eligible Content:
4 Total
Assessments
Materials & Resources
  • Anchor Descriptor - E03.C.1.1 Write opinion pieces on topics or texts, supporting a point of view with reasons.
    • Eligible Content - E03.C.1.1.1 Introduce the topic or text for the intended audience, state an opinion, and create an organizational structure that lists reasons to support the writer’s purpose.
      • Alternate Eligible Content - E03.C.1.1.1a Identify one opinion.
        Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
    • Eligible Content - E03.C.1.1.2 Provide reasons that support the opinion.
      Continuum of Activities
      Materials & Resources
      • Alternate Eligible Content - E03.C.1.1.2a Support opinion with at least one detail.
        Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
    • Eligible Content - E03.C.1.1.3 Use linking words and phrases (e.g., because, therefore, since, for example) to connect an opinion and reasons.
      • Alternate Eligible Content - E03.C.1.1.3a Identify a linking word.
        Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
    • Eligible Content - E03.C.1.1.4 Provide a concluding statement or section.
  • Anchor Descriptor - E03.C.1.2 Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas and information clearly.
    • Eligible Content - E03.C.1.2.1 Introduce a topic for the intended audience, and group related information together to support the writer’s purpose.
      • Alternate Eligible Content - E03.C.1.2.1a Indentify one topic.
        Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
    • Eligible Content - E03.C.1.2.2 Develop the topic with facts, definitions, and/or details.
      • Alternate Eligible Content - E03.C.1.2.2a Support topic with at least one detail.
        Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
    • Eligible Content - E03.C.1.2.3 Use linking words and phrases (e.g., also, another, and, more, but) to connect ideas within categories of information.
      • Alternate Eligible Content - E03.C.1.2.3a Identify a linking word.
        Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
    • Eligible Content - E03.C.1.2.4 Provide a concluding statement or section.
  • Anchor Descriptor - E03.C.1.3 Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences.
    • Eligible Content - E03.C.1.3.1 Orient the reader by establishing a situation and introducing a narrator and/or characters; organize an event sequence that unfolds naturally to support the writer’s purpose.
      • Alternate Eligible Content - E03.C.1.3.1a Indentify one situation to describe.
        Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
      • Alternate Eligible Content - E03.C.1.3.1b Identify an event in the sequence.
        Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
    • Eligible Content - E03.C.1.3.2 Use descriptions of actions, thoughts, feelings, and other narrative techniques, such as dialogue, to develop experiences and events or to show the response of characters to situations.
      Continuum of Activities
      Materials & Resources
    • Eligible Content - E03.C.1.3.3 Use temporal words and phrases to signal event order.
    • Eligible Content - E03.C.1.3.4 Provide a sense of closure.
      Continuum of Activities
      Materials & Resources
      • Alternate Eligible Content - E03.C.1.3.4a Identify an ending.
        Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
Standard - CC.1.4.3.E

Choose words and phrases for effect.

Eligible Content:
1 Total
Assessments
Materials & Resources
  • Anchor Descriptor - E03.D.2.1 Use knowledge of language and its conventions.
    • Eligible Content - E03.D.2.1.1 Choose words and phrases for effect.
Standard - CC.1.4.3.F

Demonstrate a grade-appropriate command of the conventions of standard English grammar, usage, capitalization, punctuation, and spelling.

Eligible Content:
15 Total
PASA DLM
Essential Elements (EE)
Assessments
Materials & Resources
  • Anchor Descriptor - E03.D.1.1 Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage.
    • Eligible Content - E03.D.1.1.1 Explain the function of nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs in general and their functions in particular sentences.
    • Eligible Content - E03.D.1.1.2 Form and use regular and irregular plural nouns.
    • Eligible Content - E03.D.1.1.3 Use abstract nouns (e.g., childhood).
    • Eligible Content - E03.D.1.1.4 Form and use regular and irregular verbs.
    • Eligible Content - E03.D.1.1.5 Form and use the simple verb tenses (e.g., I walked; I walk; I will walk).
    • Eligible Content - E03.D.1.1.6 Ensure subject-verb and pronoun-antecedent agreement.
    • Eligible Content - E03.D.1.1.7 Form and use comparative and superlative adjectives and adverbs, and choose between them depending on what is to be modified.
    • Eligible Content - E03.D.1.1.8 Use coordinating and subordinating conjunctions.
    • Eligible Content - E03.D.1.1.9 Produce simple, compound, and complex sentences.
      • Alternate Eligible Content - E03.D.1.1.9a Produce a simple sentence.
        Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
  • Anchor Descriptor - E03.D.1.2 Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling.
    • Eligible Content - E03.D.1.2.1 Capitalize appropriate words in titles.
      • Alternate Eligible Content - E03.D.1.2.1a Capitalize appropriate words.
        Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
    • Eligible Content - E03.D.1.2.2 Use commas in addresses.
    • Eligible Content - E03.D.1.2.3 Use commas and quotation marks in dialogue.
    • Eligible Content - E03.D.1.2.4 Form and use possessives.
    • Eligible Content - E03.D.1.2.5 Use conventional spelling for high-frequency and other studied words and for adding suffixes to base words (e.g., sitting, smiled, cries, happiness).
    • Eligible Content - E03.D.1.2.6 Use spelling patterns and generalizations (e.g., word families, position-based spellings, syllable patterns, ending rules, meaningful word parts) in writing words.
Standard - CC.1.4.3.G

Write opinion pieces on familiar topics or texts.

PASA DLM
Essential Elements (EE)
Standard - CC.1.4.3.H

Introduce the topic and state an opinion on the topic.

Eligible Content:
4 Total
Assessments
Materials & Resources
  • Anchor Descriptor - E03.C.1.1 Write opinion pieces on topics or texts, supporting a point of view with reasons.
    • Eligible Content - E03.C.1.1.1 Introduce the topic or text for the intended audience, state an opinion, and create an organizational structure that lists reasons to support the writer’s purpose.
      • Alternate Eligible Content - E03.C.1.1.1a Identify one opinion.
        Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
    • Eligible Content - E03.C.1.1.2 Provide reasons that support the opinion.
      Continuum of Activities
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      • Alternate Eligible Content - E03.C.1.1.2a Support opinion with at least one detail.
        Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
    • Eligible Content - E03.C.1.1.3 Use linking words and phrases (e.g., because, therefore, since, for example) to connect an opinion and reasons.
      • Alternate Eligible Content - E03.C.1.1.3a Identify a linking word.
        Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
    • Eligible Content - E03.C.1.1.4 Provide a concluding statement or section.
  • Anchor Descriptor - E03.C.1.2 Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas and information clearly.
    • Eligible Content - E03.C.1.2.1 Introduce a topic for the intended audience, and group related information together to support the writer’s purpose.
      • Alternate Eligible Content - E03.C.1.2.1a Indentify one topic.
        Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
    • Eligible Content - E03.C.1.2.2 Develop the topic with facts, definitions, and/or details.
      • Alternate Eligible Content - E03.C.1.2.2a Support topic with at least one detail.
        Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
    • Eligible Content - E03.C.1.2.3 Use linking words and phrases (e.g., also, another, and, more, but) to connect ideas within categories of information.
      • Alternate Eligible Content - E03.C.1.2.3a Identify a linking word.
        Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
    • Eligible Content - E03.C.1.2.4 Provide a concluding statement or section.
  • Anchor Descriptor - E03.C.1.3 Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences.
    • Eligible Content - E03.C.1.3.1 Orient the reader by establishing a situation and introducing a narrator and/or characters; organize an event sequence that unfolds naturally to support the writer’s purpose.
      • Alternate Eligible Content - E03.C.1.3.1a Indentify one situation to describe.
        Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
      • Alternate Eligible Content - E03.C.1.3.1b Identify an event in the sequence.
        Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
    • Eligible Content - E03.C.1.3.2 Use descriptions of actions, thoughts, feelings, and other narrative techniques, such as dialogue, to develop experiences and events or to show the response of characters to situations.
      Continuum of Activities
      Materials & Resources
    • Eligible Content - E03.C.1.3.3 Use temporal words and phrases to signal event order.
    • Eligible Content - E03.C.1.3.4 Provide a sense of closure.
      Continuum of Activities
      Materials & Resources
      • Alternate Eligible Content - E03.C.1.3.4a Identify an ending.
        Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
Standard - CC.1.4.3.I

Support an opinion with reasons.

Eligible Content:
4 Total
PASA DLM
Essential Elements (EE)
Assessments
Materials & Resources
  • Anchor Descriptor - E03.C.1.1 Write opinion pieces on topics or texts, supporting a point of view with reasons.
    • Eligible Content - E03.C.1.1.1 Introduce the topic or text for the intended audience, state an opinion, and create an organizational structure that lists reasons to support the writer’s purpose.
      • Alternate Eligible Content - E03.C.1.1.1a Identify one opinion.
        Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
    • Eligible Content - E03.C.1.1.2 Provide reasons that support the opinion.
      Continuum of Activities
      Materials & Resources
      • Alternate Eligible Content - E03.C.1.1.2a Support opinion with at least one detail.
        Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
    • Eligible Content - E03.C.1.1.3 Use linking words and phrases (e.g., because, therefore, since, for example) to connect an opinion and reasons.
      • Alternate Eligible Content - E03.C.1.1.3a Identify a linking word.
        Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
    • Eligible Content - E03.C.1.1.4 Provide a concluding statement or section.
  • Anchor Descriptor - E03.C.1.2 Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas and information clearly.
    • Eligible Content - E03.C.1.2.1 Introduce a topic for the intended audience, and group related information together to support the writer’s purpose.
      • Alternate Eligible Content - E03.C.1.2.1a Indentify one topic.
        Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
    • Eligible Content - E03.C.1.2.2 Develop the topic with facts, definitions, and/or details.
      • Alternate Eligible Content - E03.C.1.2.2a Support topic with at least one detail.
        Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
    • Eligible Content - E03.C.1.2.3 Use linking words and phrases (e.g., also, another, and, more, but) to connect ideas within categories of information.
      • Alternate Eligible Content - E03.C.1.2.3a Identify a linking word.
        Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
    • Eligible Content - E03.C.1.2.4 Provide a concluding statement or section.
  • Anchor Descriptor - E03.C.1.3 Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences.
    • Eligible Content - E03.C.1.3.1 Orient the reader by establishing a situation and introducing a narrator and/or characters; organize an event sequence that unfolds naturally to support the writer’s purpose.
      • Alternate Eligible Content - E03.C.1.3.1a Indentify one situation to describe.
        Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
      • Alternate Eligible Content - E03.C.1.3.1b Identify an event in the sequence.
        Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
    • Eligible Content - E03.C.1.3.2 Use descriptions of actions, thoughts, feelings, and other narrative techniques, such as dialogue, to develop experiences and events or to show the response of characters to situations.
      Continuum of Activities
      Materials & Resources
    • Eligible Content - E03.C.1.3.3 Use temporal words and phrases to signal event order.
    • Eligible Content - E03.C.1.3.4 Provide a sense of closure.
      Continuum of Activities
      Materials & Resources
      • Alternate Eligible Content - E03.C.1.3.4a Identify an ending.
        Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
Standard - CC.1.4.3.J

Create an organizational structure that includes reasons linked in a logical order with a concluding statement or section.

Eligible Content:
4 Total
Assessments
Materials & Resources
  • Anchor Descriptor - E03.C.1.1 Write opinion pieces on topics or texts, supporting a point of view with reasons.
    • Eligible Content - E03.C.1.1.1 Introduce the topic or text for the intended audience, state an opinion, and create an organizational structure that lists reasons to support the writer’s purpose.
      • Alternate Eligible Content - E03.C.1.1.1a Identify one opinion.
        Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
    • Eligible Content - E03.C.1.1.2 Provide reasons that support the opinion.
      Continuum of Activities
      Materials & Resources
      • Alternate Eligible Content - E03.C.1.1.2a Support opinion with at least one detail.
        Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
    • Eligible Content - E03.C.1.1.3 Use linking words and phrases (e.g., because, therefore, since, for example) to connect an opinion and reasons.
      • Alternate Eligible Content - E03.C.1.1.3a Identify a linking word.
        Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
    • Eligible Content - E03.C.1.1.4 Provide a concluding statement or section.
  • Anchor Descriptor - E03.C.1.2 Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas and information clearly.
    • Eligible Content - E03.C.1.2.1 Introduce a topic for the intended audience, and group related information together to support the writer’s purpose.
      • Alternate Eligible Content - E03.C.1.2.1a Indentify one topic.
        Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
    • Eligible Content - E03.C.1.2.2 Develop the topic with facts, definitions, and/or details.
      • Alternate Eligible Content - E03.C.1.2.2a Support topic with at least one detail.
        Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
    • Eligible Content - E03.C.1.2.3 Use linking words and phrases (e.g., also, another, and, more, but) to connect ideas within categories of information.
      • Alternate Eligible Content - E03.C.1.2.3a Identify a linking word.
        Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
    • Eligible Content - E03.C.1.2.4 Provide a concluding statement or section.
  • Anchor Descriptor - E03.C.1.3 Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences.
    • Eligible Content - E03.C.1.3.1 Orient the reader by establishing a situation and introducing a narrator and/or characters; organize an event sequence that unfolds naturally to support the writer’s purpose.
      • Alternate Eligible Content - E03.C.1.3.1a Indentify one situation to describe.
        Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
      • Alternate Eligible Content - E03.C.1.3.1b Identify an event in the sequence.
        Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
    • Eligible Content - E03.C.1.3.2 Use descriptions of actions, thoughts, feelings, and other narrative techniques, such as dialogue, to develop experiences and events or to show the response of characters to situations.
      Continuum of Activities
      Materials & Resources
    • Eligible Content - E03.C.1.3.3 Use temporal words and phrases to signal event order.
    • Eligible Content - E03.C.1.3.4 Provide a sense of closure.
      Continuum of Activities
      Materials & Resources
      • Alternate Eligible Content - E03.C.1.3.4a Identify an ending.
        Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
Standard - CC.1.4.3.K

Use a variety of words and sentence types to appeal to the audience.

Eligible Content:
10 Total
PASA DLM
Essential Elements (EE)
Assessments
Materials & Resources
  • Anchor Descriptor - E03.D.1.1 Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage.
    • Eligible Content - E03.D.1.1.1 Explain the function of nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs in general and their functions in particular sentences.
    • Eligible Content - E03.D.1.1.2 Form and use regular and irregular plural nouns.
    • Eligible Content - E03.D.1.1.3 Use abstract nouns (e.g., childhood).
    • Eligible Content - E03.D.1.1.4 Form and use regular and irregular verbs.
    • Eligible Content - E03.D.1.1.5 Form and use the simple verb tenses (e.g., I walked; I walk; I will walk).
    • Eligible Content - E03.D.1.1.6 Ensure subject-verb and pronoun-antecedent agreement.
    • Eligible Content - E03.D.1.1.7 Form and use comparative and superlative adjectives and adverbs, and choose between them depending on what is to be modified.
    • Eligible Content - E03.D.1.1.8 Use coordinating and subordinating conjunctions.
    • Eligible Content - E03.D.1.1.9 Produce simple, compound, and complex sentences.
      • Alternate Eligible Content - E03.D.1.1.9a Produce a simple sentence.
        Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
  • Anchor Descriptor - E03.D.1.2 Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling.
    • Eligible Content - E03.D.1.2.1 Capitalize appropriate words in titles.
      • Alternate Eligible Content - E03.D.1.2.1a Capitalize appropriate words.
        Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
    • Eligible Content - E03.D.1.2.2 Use commas in addresses.
    • Eligible Content - E03.D.1.2.3 Use commas and quotation marks in dialogue.
    • Eligible Content - E03.D.1.2.4 Form and use possessives.
    • Eligible Content - E03.D.1.2.5 Use conventional spelling for high-frequency and other studied words and for adding suffixes to base words (e.g., sitting, smiled, cries, happiness).
    • Eligible Content - E03.D.1.2.6 Use spelling patterns and generalizations (e.g., word families, position-based spellings, syllable patterns, ending rules, meaningful word parts) in writing words.
      • Anchor Descriptor - E03.D.2.1 Use knowledge of language and its conventions.
        • Eligible Content - E03.D.2.1.1 Choose words and phrases for effect.
      Standard - CC.1.4.3.L

      Demonstrate a grade-appropriate command of the conventions of standard English grammar, usage, capitalization, punctuation, and spelling.

      Eligible Content:
      15 Total
      PASA DLM
      Essential Elements (EE)
      Assessments
      Materials & Resources
      • Anchor Descriptor - E03.D.1.1 Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage.
        • Eligible Content - E03.D.1.1.1 Explain the function of nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs in general and their functions in particular sentences.
        • Eligible Content - E03.D.1.1.2 Form and use regular and irregular plural nouns.
        • Eligible Content - E03.D.1.1.3 Use abstract nouns (e.g., childhood).
        • Eligible Content - E03.D.1.1.4 Form and use regular and irregular verbs.
        • Eligible Content - E03.D.1.1.5 Form and use the simple verb tenses (e.g., I walked; I walk; I will walk).
        • Eligible Content - E03.D.1.1.6 Ensure subject-verb and pronoun-antecedent agreement.
        • Eligible Content - E03.D.1.1.7 Form and use comparative and superlative adjectives and adverbs, and choose between them depending on what is to be modified.
        • Eligible Content - E03.D.1.1.8 Use coordinating and subordinating conjunctions.
        • Eligible Content - E03.D.1.1.9 Produce simple, compound, and complex sentences.
          • Alternate Eligible Content - E03.D.1.1.9a Produce a simple sentence.
            Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
      • Anchor Descriptor - E03.D.1.2 Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling.
        • Eligible Content - E03.D.1.2.1 Capitalize appropriate words in titles.
          • Alternate Eligible Content - E03.D.1.2.1a Capitalize appropriate words.
            Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
        • Eligible Content - E03.D.1.2.2 Use commas in addresses.
        • Eligible Content - E03.D.1.2.3 Use commas and quotation marks in dialogue.
        • Eligible Content - E03.D.1.2.4 Form and use possessives.
        • Eligible Content - E03.D.1.2.5 Use conventional spelling for high-frequency and other studied words and for adding suffixes to base words (e.g., sitting, smiled, cries, happiness).
        • Eligible Content - E03.D.1.2.6 Use spelling patterns and generalizations (e.g., word families, position-based spellings, syllable patterns, ending rules, meaningful word parts) in writing words.
      Standard - CC.1.4.3.M

      Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events.

      PASA DLM
      Essential Elements (EE)
      Standard - CC.1.4.3.N

      Establish a situation and introduce a narrator and/or characters.

      Eligible Content:
      4 Total
      Assessments
      • Anchor Descriptor - E03.C.1.1 Write opinion pieces on topics or texts, supporting a point of view with reasons.
        • Eligible Content - E03.C.1.1.1 Introduce the topic or text for the intended audience, state an opinion, and create an organizational structure that lists reasons to support the writer’s purpose.
          • Alternate Eligible Content - E03.C.1.1.1a Identify one opinion.
            Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
        • Eligible Content - E03.C.1.1.2 Provide reasons that support the opinion.
          Continuum of Activities
          Materials & Resources
          • Alternate Eligible Content - E03.C.1.1.2a Support opinion with at least one detail.
            Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
        • Eligible Content - E03.C.1.1.3 Use linking words and phrases (e.g., because, therefore, since, for example) to connect an opinion and reasons.
          • Alternate Eligible Content - E03.C.1.1.3a Identify a linking word.
            Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
        • Eligible Content - E03.C.1.1.4 Provide a concluding statement or section.
      • Anchor Descriptor - E03.C.1.2 Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas and information clearly.
        • Eligible Content - E03.C.1.2.1 Introduce a topic for the intended audience, and group related information together to support the writer’s purpose.
          • Alternate Eligible Content - E03.C.1.2.1a Indentify one topic.
            Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
        • Eligible Content - E03.C.1.2.2 Develop the topic with facts, definitions, and/or details.
          • Alternate Eligible Content - E03.C.1.2.2a Support topic with at least one detail.
            Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
        • Eligible Content - E03.C.1.2.3 Use linking words and phrases (e.g., also, another, and, more, but) to connect ideas within categories of information.
          • Alternate Eligible Content - E03.C.1.2.3a Identify a linking word.
            Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
        • Eligible Content - E03.C.1.2.4 Provide a concluding statement or section.
      • Anchor Descriptor - E03.C.1.3 Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences.
        • Eligible Content - E03.C.1.3.1 Orient the reader by establishing a situation and introducing a narrator and/or characters; organize an event sequence that unfolds naturally to support the writer’s purpose.
          • Alternate Eligible Content - E03.C.1.3.1a Indentify one situation to describe.
            Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
          • Alternate Eligible Content - E03.C.1.3.1b Identify an event in the sequence.
            Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
        • Eligible Content - E03.C.1.3.2 Use descriptions of actions, thoughts, feelings, and other narrative techniques, such as dialogue, to develop experiences and events or to show the response of characters to situations.
          Continuum of Activities
          Materials & Resources
        • Eligible Content - E03.C.1.3.3 Use temporal words and phrases to signal event order.
        • Eligible Content - E03.C.1.3.4 Provide a sense of closure.
          Continuum of Activities
          Materials & Resources
          • Alternate Eligible Content - E03.C.1.3.4a Identify an ending.
            Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
      Standard - CC.1.4.3.O

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

      Eligible Content:
      4 Total
      Assessments
      Materials & Resources
      • Anchor Descriptor - E03.C.1.1 Write opinion pieces on topics or texts, supporting a point of view with reasons.
        • Eligible Content - E03.C.1.1.1 Introduce the topic or text for the intended audience, state an opinion, and create an organizational structure that lists reasons to support the writer’s purpose.
          • Alternate Eligible Content - E03.C.1.1.1a Identify one opinion.
            Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
        • Eligible Content - E03.C.1.1.2 Provide reasons that support the opinion.
          Continuum of Activities
          Materials & Resources
          • Alternate Eligible Content - E03.C.1.1.2a Support opinion with at least one detail.
            Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
        • Eligible Content - E03.C.1.1.3 Use linking words and phrases (e.g., because, therefore, since, for example) to connect an opinion and reasons.
          • Alternate Eligible Content - E03.C.1.1.3a Identify a linking word.
            Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
        • Eligible Content - E03.C.1.1.4 Provide a concluding statement or section.
      • Anchor Descriptor - E03.C.1.2 Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas and information clearly.
        • Eligible Content - E03.C.1.2.1 Introduce a topic for the intended audience, and group related information together to support the writer’s purpose.
          • Alternate Eligible Content - E03.C.1.2.1a Indentify one topic.
            Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
        • Eligible Content - E03.C.1.2.2 Develop the topic with facts, definitions, and/or details.
          • Alternate Eligible Content - E03.C.1.2.2a Support topic with at least one detail.
            Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
        • Eligible Content - E03.C.1.2.3 Use linking words and phrases (e.g., also, another, and, more, but) to connect ideas within categories of information.
          • Alternate Eligible Content - E03.C.1.2.3a Identify a linking word.
            Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
        • Eligible Content - E03.C.1.2.4 Provide a concluding statement or section.
      • Anchor Descriptor - E03.C.1.3 Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences.
        • Eligible Content - E03.C.1.3.1 Orient the reader by establishing a situation and introducing a narrator and/or characters; organize an event sequence that unfolds naturally to support the writer’s purpose.
          • Alternate Eligible Content - E03.C.1.3.1a Indentify one situation to describe.
            Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
          • Alternate Eligible Content - E03.C.1.3.1b Identify an event in the sequence.
            Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
        • Eligible Content - E03.C.1.3.2 Use descriptions of actions, thoughts, feelings, and other narrative techniques, such as dialogue, to develop experiences and events or to show the response of characters to situations.
          Continuum of Activities
          Materials & Resources
        • Eligible Content - E03.C.1.3.3 Use temporal words and phrases to signal event order.
        • Eligible Content - E03.C.1.3.4 Provide a sense of closure.
          Continuum of Activities
          Materials & Resources
          • Alternate Eligible Content - E03.C.1.3.4a Identify an ending.
            Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
      Standard - CC.1.4.3.P

      Organize an event sequence that unfolds naturally, using temporal words and phrases to signal event order; provide a sense of closure.

      Eligible Content:
      4 Total
      Assessments
      Materials & Resources
      • Anchor Descriptor - E03.C.1.1 Write opinion pieces on topics or texts, supporting a point of view with reasons.
        • Eligible Content - E03.C.1.1.1 Introduce the topic or text for the intended audience, state an opinion, and create an organizational structure that lists reasons to support the writer’s purpose.
          • Alternate Eligible Content - E03.C.1.1.1a Identify one opinion.
            Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
        • Eligible Content - E03.C.1.1.2 Provide reasons that support the opinion.
          Continuum of Activities
          Materials & Resources
          • Alternate Eligible Content - E03.C.1.1.2a Support opinion with at least one detail.
            Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
        • Eligible Content - E03.C.1.1.3 Use linking words and phrases (e.g., because, therefore, since, for example) to connect an opinion and reasons.
          • Alternate Eligible Content - E03.C.1.1.3a Identify a linking word.
            Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
        • Eligible Content - E03.C.1.1.4 Provide a concluding statement or section.
      • Anchor Descriptor - E03.C.1.2 Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas and information clearly.
        • Eligible Content - E03.C.1.2.1 Introduce a topic for the intended audience, and group related information together to support the writer’s purpose.
          • Alternate Eligible Content - E03.C.1.2.1a Indentify one topic.
            Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
        • Eligible Content - E03.C.1.2.2 Develop the topic with facts, definitions, and/or details.
          • Alternate Eligible Content - E03.C.1.2.2a Support topic with at least one detail.
            Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
        • Eligible Content - E03.C.1.2.3 Use linking words and phrases (e.g., also, another, and, more, but) to connect ideas within categories of information.
          • Alternate Eligible Content - E03.C.1.2.3a Identify a linking word.
            Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
        • Eligible Content - E03.C.1.2.4 Provide a concluding statement or section.
      • Anchor Descriptor - E03.C.1.3 Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences.
        • Eligible Content - E03.C.1.3.1 Orient the reader by establishing a situation and introducing a narrator and/or characters; organize an event sequence that unfolds naturally to support the writer’s purpose.
          • Alternate Eligible Content - E03.C.1.3.1a Indentify one situation to describe.
            Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
          • Alternate Eligible Content - E03.C.1.3.1b Identify an event in the sequence.
            Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
        • Eligible Content - E03.C.1.3.2 Use descriptions of actions, thoughts, feelings, and other narrative techniques, such as dialogue, to develop experiences and events or to show the response of characters to situations.
          Continuum of Activities
          Materials & Resources
        • Eligible Content - E03.C.1.3.3 Use temporal words and phrases to signal event order.
        • Eligible Content - E03.C.1.3.4 Provide a sense of closure.
          Continuum of Activities
          Materials & Resources
          • Alternate Eligible Content - E03.C.1.3.4a Identify an ending.
            Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
      Standard - CC.1.4.3.Q

      Choose words and phrases for effect.

      Eligible Content:
      1 Total
      PASA DLM
      Essential Elements (EE)
      Assessments
      Materials & Resources
      • Anchor Descriptor - E03.D.2.1 Use knowledge of language and its conventions.
        • Eligible Content - E03.D.2.1.1 Choose words and phrases for effect.
      Standard - CC.1.4.3.R

      Demonstrate a grade-appropriate command of the conventions of standard English grammar, usage, capitalization, punctuation, and spelling.

      Eligible Content:
      15 Total
      PASA DLM
      Essential Elements (EE)
      Assessments
      Materials & Resources
      • Anchor Descriptor - E03.D.1.1 Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage.
        • Eligible Content - E03.D.1.1.1 Explain the function of nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs in general and their functions in particular sentences.
        • Eligible Content - E03.D.1.1.2 Form and use regular and irregular plural nouns.
        • Eligible Content - E03.D.1.1.3 Use abstract nouns (e.g., childhood).
        • Eligible Content - E03.D.1.1.4 Form and use regular and irregular verbs.
        • Eligible Content - E03.D.1.1.5 Form and use the simple verb tenses (e.g., I walked; I walk; I will walk).
        • Eligible Content - E03.D.1.1.6 Ensure subject-verb and pronoun-antecedent agreement.
        • Eligible Content - E03.D.1.1.7 Form and use comparative and superlative adjectives and adverbs, and choose between them depending on what is to be modified.
        • Eligible Content - E03.D.1.1.8 Use coordinating and subordinating conjunctions.
        • Eligible Content - E03.D.1.1.9 Produce simple, compound, and complex sentences.
          • Alternate Eligible Content - E03.D.1.1.9a Produce a simple sentence.
            Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
      • Anchor Descriptor - E03.D.1.2 Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling.
        • Eligible Content - E03.D.1.2.1 Capitalize appropriate words in titles.
          • Alternate Eligible Content - E03.D.1.2.1a Capitalize appropriate words.
            Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
        • Eligible Content - E03.D.1.2.2 Use commas in addresses.
        • Eligible Content - E03.D.1.2.3 Use commas and quotation marks in dialogue.
        • Eligible Content - E03.D.1.2.4 Form and use possessives.
        • Eligible Content - E03.D.1.2.5 Use conventional spelling for high-frequency and other studied words and for adding suffixes to base words (e.g., sitting, smiled, cries, happiness).
        • Eligible Content - E03.D.1.2.6 Use spelling patterns and generalizations (e.g., word families, position-based spellings, syllable patterns, ending rules, meaningful word parts) in writing words.
      Standard - CC.1.4.3.S

      Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research, applying grade-level reading standards for literature and informational texts

      Continuum of Activities Materials & Resources
      Standard - CC.1.4.3.T

      With guidance and support from peers and adults, develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, and editing.

      PASA DLM
      Essential Elements (EE)
      Continuum of Activities Materials & Resources
      Standard - CC.1.4.3.U

      With guidance and support, use technology to produce and publish writing (using keyboarding skills) as well as to interact and collaborate with others.

      PASA DLM
      Essential Elements (EE)
      Continuum of Activities Materials & Resources
      Standard - CC.1.4.3.V

      Conduct short research projects that build knowledge about a topic.

      PASA DLM
      Essential Elements (EE)
      Continuum of Activities Materials & Resources
      Standard - CC.1.4.3.W

      Recall information from experiences or gather information from print and digital sources; take brief notes on sources and sort evidence into provided categories.

      PASA DLM
      Essential Elements (EE)
      Continuum of Activities Materials & Resources
      Standard - CC.1.4.3.X

      Write routinely over extended time frames (time for research, reflection, and revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of discipline-specific tasks, purposes and audiences.

      PASA DLM
      Essential Elements (EE)
      Continuum of Activities
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