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To be college and career ready in language, students must have firm control over the conventions of standard English. At the same time, they must come to appreciate that language is as at least as much a matter of craft as of rules and be able to choose words, syntax and punctuation to express themselves and achieve particular function and rhetorical effects. They must also have extensive vocabularies built through reading and study, enabling them to comprehend complex texts and engage in purposeful writing about conversations around content. Students need to be skilled in determining or clarifying the meaning of words and phrases they encounter. They must see individual words as part of a network of other words being able to understand the connotation and denotation of words. The inclusion of Language standards in their own strand should not be taken as an indication that skills related to conventions, language use, and vocabulary are unimportant to reading, writing, speaking and listening; indeed they are inseparable.
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