Grammar Picnic
Standards
Ontario Curriculum: Language
18 expectations · 2 in full · 15 in part
Language Conventions, B3.1 to B3.3, by grade.
Grade 1
3 expectations · 0 in full · 3 in part- B3.1Identify and construct simple and compound sentences, including declarative, imperative, interrogative, and exclamatory sentencesSimple, compound, or complex? The clowns dance.Simple, compound, complexNot practised here: commands and exclamations. Questions are practised under Statements and questions and Who, what, where, when, how.
- B3.2Understand the functions of parts of speech, including common singular and plural nouns, the pronoun “I”, the past, present, and future tenses, common adjectives and adverbs, and common conjunctionsFind all the verbs in the sentence. Bubbles burst.Nouns and verbsNot practised here: the pronoun I. Tenses, adjectives, adverbs and conjunctions are under Past, present, future, Describing words, Adverbs, and And, but, so, because.
- B3.3Use capitalization and punctuation to communicate meaning, including a capital letter at the beginning of a sentence and the right punctuation mark at the endWrite the right end mark. Who smiled.End marksNot practised here: exclamation marks. The capital at the start is under Capital letters.
Grade 2
3 expectations · 0 in full · 3 in part- B3.1Identify and construct declarative, imperative, interrogative, and exclamatory sentences, including compound sentencesStatement or question? Is the monkey hungryStatements and questionsNot practised here: commands and exclamations. Compound sentences are under Simple, compound, complex; question-word questions are under Who, what, where, when, how.
- B3.2Understand the functions of parts of speech, including abstract and collective nouns, personal pronouns, forms of the verb “to be”, comparative and superlative adjectives, conjunctions, and the words that adverbs modifyChoose the right form of the describing word. The sun is ____ than the candle.Comparatives and superlativesNot practised here: abstract nouns, and the word an adverb modifies. Collective nouns, personal pronouns, is and are, and conjunctions are under Collective nouns, He or him, Subject-verb agreement, and And, but, so, because.
- B3.3Use capitalization and punctuation to communicate clearly, including capital letters for proper nouns, commas in lists, apostrophes for possessives, and quotation marks for direct speechFix the capital letters. were the knives sharp?Capital lettersNot practised here: quotation marks. Apostrophes for possessives are under Possessives, and commas in lists under Commas in a series.
Grade 3
3 expectations · 1 in full · 2 in part- B3.1Identify and construct various sentence types and forms, including simple, compound, and complex sentences containing adverbial clausesSimple, compound, or complex? Babies spill milk.Simple, compound, complex
- B3.2Understand the functions of parts of speech, including possessive nouns, linking verbs and the progressive tense, interrogative adjectives and adverbs, and prepositions and interjectionsChoose the right word. The friends ____ laughing.Progressive tensesNot practised here: interjections. Linking verbs are under Looks, feels, sounds; interrogative adjectives under Which and whose; possessive nouns, interrogative adverbs (where, when, how, why) and prepositions under Possessives, Who, what, where, when, how, and Prepositions of place.
- B3.3Use capitalization and punctuation to communicate meaning, including capitals in dialogue and titles, commas and quotation marks for direct speech and quotations, and apostrophes for contractionsFix the sentence. Dan said "The melon was juicy."Quotation marksNot practised here: capitals in titles, and quotation marks for quotations that are not speech
Grade 4
3 expectations · 0 in full · 3 in part- B3.1Identify and construct various sentence types and forms, including simple and compound sentences formed with prepositional phrases and/or independent and dependent clausesSimple, compound, or complex? Babies spill milk.Simple, compound, complexNot practised here: building sentences with prepositional phrases. Prepositional phrases finds them but does not build with them.
- B3.2Understand the functions of parts of speech, including relative pronouns, the perfect tense, interrogative and imperative verbs, and pronouns used as adjectivesFind the relative clause. The kittens that the puppy chases are soft.Relative clausesNot practised here: imperative verbs. Interrogative verbs are practised under Statements and questions and Who, what, where, when, how; the perfect tense and pronouns as adjectives (his, their) are under Perfect tenses and His, her, its, their.
- B3.3Use capitalization and punctuation to communicate meaning, including capitals for proper adjectives, commas to set off nouns of direct address, and quotation marks for the title of a short workChoose the sentence with the comma in the right place. A. Yes, the girl's kites are blue.B. Yes the, girl's kites are blue.C. Yes the girl's kites are blue.Commas with yes, no, names and tagsNot practised here: commas to set off nouns of direct address (Dad, look); no proper adjectives (Canadian) or titles of short works.
Grade 5
3 expectations · 0 in full · 3 in part- B3.1Identify and construct various sentence types and forms, including compound-complex sentences, and correct sentence fragments and run-on sentencesComplete sentence, fragment, or run-on? Scratches its ears.Fragments and run-onsNot practised here: compound-complex sentences, and correcting a fragment: a fragment is only spotted, a run-on is fixed.
- B3.2Understand the functions of parts of speech, including direct objects, intensive and reflexive pronouns, proper adjectives, and correlative conjunctionsFind the whole subject. Chefs cook pasta.Subjects and objectsNot practised here: intensive and reflexive pronouns (myself) and proper adjectives.
- B3.3Use commas to set off advanced phrases or clauses, such as appositives and participles, and colons to introduce a list after a complete sentenceChoose the mark that closes the extra words. Grandma (who plants peas ____ picks beans.Commas, parentheses and dashesNot practised here: appositives, participle phrases and colons. It sets off a who-clause, with commas, parentheses or dashes.
Grade 6
3 expectations · 1 in full · 1 in part- B3.1Construct sentences that communicate ideas effectively, including complex sentences with adjective or relative clausesFind the relative clause. The kittens that the puppy chases are soft.Relative clauses
- B3.2Understand the functions of parts of speech, including nouns that are gerunds, and distinguish and convert between active and passive voiceStart with the thing that gets the action. The lions chased the zebra.Active and passiveNot practised here: gerunds.
- B3.3Use colons in formal letters, memo salutations and script dialogue, and commas after transitional words or phrasesNo letters, memos or scripts are generated, and no sentence opens with a transitional word such as however or finally.
Each point is shortened from the wording of the Ontario Ministry of Education. Read the full text there.