: Students must distinguish between sentence types by purpose (declarative, interrogative, exclamatory) and identify primary (subject/predicate) and secondary sentence members.

: Assessments include dictations that target specific orthograms, such as unstressed vowels in roots, double consonants, and the use of the "hard" (ъ) and "soft" (ь) signs. Typical Test Structure

: Developing sentences from word sets or identifying phraseological units. Learning Outcomes

: A heavy emphasis is placed on "parsing" words—identifying the root, prefix, suffix, and ending . Tests often require students to categorize words by their morphological makeup.

Understand the relationship between words in a sentence through syntactic analysis .

The curriculum by A.V. Polyakova , part of the Zankov educational system, is designed to deepen students' understanding of linguistic structures through a "developmental learning" approach.