Create with clarity and correctness, and appropriate to a particular audience and purpose, a variety of expressions (oral presentations, written compositions, and other representations) that represent ideas and information about identity, social responsibility, and efficacy.

Create representations, speeches, and writing that feature the following qualities:

• Message Content or Ideas (Meaning): Maintains focus around a clear purpose; shows awareness of audience; provides relevant details, examples, and explanations; is accurate, complete, and uses own words; shows some individuality or originality in literary texts; contains ideas and images that create an impact.
• Organization and Coherence (Form): Introduces the topic and purpose; may provide some context; sticks to the topic; is easy to follow with related ideas grouped together (i.e., sequence is logical); uses a variety of connecting words; creates a logical ending; includes appropriate, required text features (e.g., titles, headings, diagrams, illustrations) correctly constructed; uses paragraphs that have main ideas and supporting details.
• Language Conventions (Style and Language Choices): Use clear and varied language correctly; shows a sense of audience; level of formality is appropriate for purpose and audience; contains some description and variety in diction; contains a variety of sentence lengths and some varied sentence beginnings; demonstrates the use of several different conjunctions; formulates simple, compound, and complex sentences; applies the conventions of oral and written language, including very few spelling errors, correct punctuation (including use of comma, colon, dash, and hyphen); uses syntactically complete and correct sentences (avoiding run-ons and fragments), uses legible cursive handwriting and clear representations which are visually accurate and legibly and neatly presented.

Use own experiences to create personal or impromptu communications characterized by some insight and development including opinion and personal and critical responses to text.

Create a variety of narrative, descriptive, expository, and persuasive oral presentations, written compositions, and other representations with some original qualities.

Create a variety of visual, oral, written, and multimedia (including digital) texts including personal narratives, responses or reactions to texts, stories, reports, articles, instructions, explanations, opinions, letters, illustrations, diagrams, leaflets, stories, poems, storyboards, cartoons, and skits or short view scripts.