Writing Level 2

The course will provide students with the knowledge of how to distinguish between adjectives and adverbs with the practice on how to use these modifiers and how to with phrases as modifiers. Students will be taught the rules of capitalization and punctuation. The in class activities will engage them in knowing how to spell possessives, contractions, homophones, and affixes. The course also engages students in learning the basic spelling patterns and generalizations. The course prepares students to write clearly and demonstrate command of standard English conventions.

SLOs – Upon completion of this course, the student will be able to:

• Identify the functions of the adjectives and adverbs in sentences (ABE Academic content of writing)
• Use modifying phrases (ABE Academic content of writing)
• Identify prepositional phrases and verb phrases as modifiers (ABE Academic content of writing)
• Demonstrate the correct use of capitalization in titles and beginning of sentences (ABE Academic content of writing)
• Use punctuation marks correctly in possessives and contractions (ABE Academic content of writing)
• Use and spell homophones correctly (ABE Academic content of writing)