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South Carolina Standards

South Carolina English 1 ELA Standards

All 33 South Carolina English language arts standards for English 1, each explained in plain English. The official wording is in South Carolina Department of Education's document, linked at the end of this page.

33 standards

Overarching Expectations

6 standards
ELA.E1.OE.1
Read and write for school and personal reasons, and keep going for long stretches, like finishing a class novel or drafting an essay over several days.
ELA.E1.OE.2
Gain, sharpen, and pass on knowledge through many kinds of media, like printed articles, speeches, photos, videos, and interactive websites.
ELA.E1.OE.3
Read between the lines to understand a text, using clues to work out what it suggests, like why a character keeps a secret in a short story.
ELA.E1.OE.4
Work with classmates and listen actively, like restating a partner's point before adding your own in a small-group discussion.
ELA.E1.OE.5
Back up and justify your thinking with specific evidence, like quoting the line that shows a character has changed.
ELA.E1.OE.6
Turn in polished work that follows an expected format, like an essay with a proper heading, title, and works cited page.

Applications of Reading

14 standards
ELA.E1.AOR.1.1
Analyze how point of view, background context, or key literary elements add meaning or shape style, like how a young narrator colors a story's events.
ELA.E1.AOR.1.2
Analyze how figurative language affects mood, tone, and meaning in one or more texts, and explain why an author uses an allusion, like a nod to a Greek myth.
ELA.E1.AOR.2.1
Identify a theme that speaks to people everywhere and explain how key details build it across a story, like repeated choices that reveal a lesson about pride.
ELA.E1.AOR.2.2
Judge how well the supporting details in an informational text build its central idea from start to finish, like facts and expert quotes in a science article.
ELA.E1.AOR.3.1
Analyze how gaps between what characters know and what readers know create suspense or humor, like dramatic or situational irony in a play.
ELA.E1.AOR.4.1
Analyze an author's viewpoint or purpose and how the author's rhetorical choices make the text effective, like the appeals in a persuasive speech.
ELA.E1.AOR.5.1
Analyze how the way an author arranges a story, including flashback and foreshadowing, builds mystery, tension, or suspense.
ELA.E1.AOR.5.2
Analyze how an informational text's structures and features, like headings, sidebars, or a problem-and-solution pattern, affect its purpose or meaning.
ELA.E1.AOR.5.3
Analyze the argument in an informational text and judge how well its reasoning and rhetoric work, like spotting a weak cause-and-effect claim.
ELA.E1.AOR.6.1
Sum up or restate a grade-level text in your own words to understand it better, like a short summary of a chapter in a class novel.
ELA.E1.AOR.7.1
Work out or confirm what words mean, including multiple-meaning words, using context, prior knowledge, or a dictionary for meaning, pronunciation, and origin.
ELA.E1.AOR.8.1
Interpret figurative, connotative, and technical language, like how a pun works, how near-synonyms differ in shading, and how word choice sets tone.
ELA.E1.AOR.9.1
Use what you know about word origins to figure out or confirm the meaning of new words, like using the Latin root bene to unlock benefactor.
ELA.E1.AOR.10.1
Explain the pros and cons of presenting an idea or topic in different formats, like a printed article, a website, a film, an image, or a live performance.

Research

5 standards
ELA.E1.R.1.1
Research a question or problem in short and longer projects by writing and answering a research question and narrowing it with varied print and digital sources.
ELA.E1.R.1.2
Analyze how trustworthy and on-topic each source is and use only those that fit your research goal, like checking who published a website and when.
ELA.E1.R.1.3
Examine what your research turned up to decide which findings actually matter for your topic and research goal.
ELA.E1.R.1.4
Arrange research findings in a logical order that serves your purpose, like grouping notes by subtopic before drafting.
ELA.E1.R.1.5
Cite sources using a standard academic style guide, like MLA, so borrowed words and ideas get credit and plagiarism is avoided.

Written and Oral Communications

8 standards
ELA.E1.C.1.1
Write an argument about a topic or text with a precise claim, credible evidence, a rebutted counterclaim, linked sections, a fitting tone, and a supporting conclusion.
ELA.E1.C.2.1
Write informative essays that draw on several sources to explain complex ideas, using facts, quotes, varied transitions, precise words, a fitting tone, and a conclusion.
ELA.E1.C.3.1
Write narratives about real or imagined experiences with an engaging opening, a narrator or characters, dialogue, pacing, vivid details, and a purposeful ending.
ELA.E1.C.4.1
Write varied sentences while applying grammar rules, like colons, a semicolon before however, hyphenated modifiers, parallel structure, and fixing run-ons and shifts.
ELA.E1.C.5.1
Improve drafts by planning, editing, and using feedback from teachers and classmates, then revising so the writing is clearer and flows better.
ELA.E1.C.7.1
Present claims and findings with focused key points and details, using eye contact and clear speech, a clear perspective, visuals, and an online platform to publish.
ELA.E1.C.8.1
Start and join structured discussions, asking questions that build on ideas, rethinking your view when new information warrants, and backing opinions with evidence.
ELA.E1.C.9.1
Judge a speaker's argument in a live or recorded presentation, weighing reasoning and evidence, how the message and media suit the audience, and possible bias.

The official South Carolina documents

The plain-English lines on this page are EMStudio's own explanations of South Carolina's standards, not the official wording, which South Carolina Department of Education publishes in the documents above. Codes and strand names identify each standard.