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Standards:: 2: Students will listen, speak, read, and write in English for literary response, enjoyment, and expression
Performance Indicators:
1. Read, listen to, view, and discuss literature of different genres. Such genres include picture books, fables, poems, myths, songs, and media productions.
2. Use basic strategies to make literary text comprehensible and meaningful. Such strategies include previewing, reviewing, listening selectively, listening for a specific purpose, and listening for main ideas and details.
3. Recognize some features that distinguish some genres and use those features to aid comprehension.
4. Identify key literary elements in texts and relate those features to students' own experiences. Such elements include setting, character, plot, and point of view.
5. Make predictions and inferences, and discuss the meaning of literary works to understand text presented orally and in written form.
6. Develop comprehension of text to prepare to read aloud.
7. Present personal responses to published literature through words or pictures, referring to features of the text. Such features include characters, setting, plot, ideas, events, and vocabulary.
8. Create personal stories, using appropriate vocabulary and elements of the literature students have read or heard.
9. Engage in collaborative activities through a variety of student groupings to create and respond to literature. Such groupings include small groups, and interest groups.
10. Create, discuss, and respond to literary works with attention to appropriate vocabulary, grammar, spelling, and punctuation.
11. Apply self-monitoring and self-correcting strategies while reading, viewing, discussing, listening to, or producing literary texts. Such strategies include referring to illustrations, asking questions, and exploring alternative pronunciations or ways of saying things.
12. Apply learning strategies to comprehend literature and produce literary responses. Such strategies include asking questions and using prior knowledge, graphic organizers, context cues and cognates.