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Standards:: 4: Students will listen, speak, read, and write in English for classroom and social interaction.
Performance Indicators:
1. Use a variety of oral, print, and electronic forms for social communication. Such forms include friendly notes, invitations, and electronic messages.
2. Describe, read about, participate in, or recommend a favorite activity, book, song, or other interest to various audiences. Such audiences include peer, class, teacher, and other adults.
3. Request and provide information and assistance, orally or in writing, for personal, social, and academic purposes.
4. Listen attentively and take turns speaking when engaged in pair, group, or full-class discussions on personal, social, and academic topics.
5. Explain actions, choices, and decisions in social and classroom situations.
6. Understand and use some basic oral communication strategies in American English. Such strategies include indicating lack of understanding, restating or asking for restatement, requesting clarification, and asking how to say something new.
7. Follow oral and written directions to participate in classroom and social activities.
8. Negotiate and manage interactions to accomplish social and classroom tasks.
9. Use appropriate vocabulary, language, and interaction styles for various audiences and social or school situations. Such expressions and routines include asking permission, making and responding to requests, greeting, closing, and thanking, orally or in writing. Such situations include chatting with friends, participating in group discussions, and greeting a principal or other adult.
10. Demonstrate appropriate classroom behaviors. Such behaviors include participating in small group and whole class discussions, being courteous, and respecting the person and property of others.
11. Discover alternative ways of saying things in social and classroom interactions.
12. Apply self-monitoring and self-correcting strategies in social and classroom interactions. Such strategies include asking questions, starting over, rephrasing, and exploring alternative ways of saying things.