DLI 4th Grade Guide

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●​ Is not aware of the purpose, audience, and task ●​ Does not make a claim or does not support a perspective ●​ Uses few or no transitional strategies to connect ideas ●​ Does not present ideas in a logical progression, or order ●​ Does not include an introduction nor a conclusion

●​ Supports the claim with few logical reasons or does not support the claim at all ●​ Has few or no examples of evidence or does not include enough sources ●​ Does not use elaborative techniques ●​ Has confusing or unclear ideas or does not express any interesting ideas ●​ Does not demonstrate a grasp of academic and domain-specific language ●​ Consists only of sentence structures

●​ Has an incomplete

command of grammar and usage

●​ Has an incomplete command of capitalization, punctuation, spelling, and sentence formation ●​ Has some errors in grammar and usage that may affect meaning

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●​ Does not have a

command of grammar and usage

●​ Does not have a command of capitalization,

punctuation, spelling, and sentence formation ●​ Has too many serious errors in grammar and usage that frequently disrupt meaning

6.5.26