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Standards:: 3: Students will listen, speak, read, and write in English for critical analysis and evaluation.
Performance Indicators:
1. Form and express responses to ideas through reading, listening, viewing, discussing, and writing.
2. Evaluate the quality of written or spoken texts, visual presentations, and experiences, on the basis of criteria such as attractiveness of illustrations, appeal of characters, and believability of story.
3. Recognize personal point of view in self and others in discussing information.
4. Evaluate students' own and others' work, individually and collaboratively, on the basis of established criteria. Criteria include visual presentation and clarity of ideas.
5. Recognize how structural features affect readers' and listeners' understanding and appreciation of text. Such features include repetition of words or ideas, vocabulary, and visuals.
6. Speak persuasively and clearly with attention to appropriate grammar, vocabulary, and pronunciation.
7. Engage in collaborative activities through a variety of student groupings to discuss and share experiences, ideas, information, and opinions. Such groupings include small groups, and interest groups.
8. Apply self-monitoring and self-correcting strategies to adjust language production to effectively express ideas and opinions. Such strategies include asking questions, starting over, rephrasing, and exploring alternative ways of saying things.
9. Apply learning strategies to explore a variety of materials. Such strategies include asking questions and using prior knowledge, graphic organizers, context cues, and cognates.