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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 a variety of literature of different genres. Such genres include picture books, poems, articles and stories from children's magazines, fables, myths and legends, songs, plays and media productions, and works of fiction and nonfiction intended for young readers, including works of American popular culture.
2. Identify and use reading and listening strategies to make literary text comprehensible and meaningful. Such strategies include skimming, scanning, previewing, reviewing, listening selectively or 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. Locate and identify key literary elements in texts and relate those elements to those in other works and to students' own experiences. Such elements include setting, character, plot, theme, repetition, and point of view.
5. Make predictions, inferences, and deductions, and discuss the meaning of literary works with some attention to meaning beyond the literal level, to understand and interpret text presented orally and in written form.
6. Read aloud with confidence, accuracy, and fluency.
7. Compose and present personal and formal responses to published literature and the work of peers, referring to details and features of text. Such features include characters, setting, plot, ideas, events, vocabulary, and text structure.
8. Create personal stories, poems, and songs, including those that reflect traditional and popular American culture; use 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, cooperative learning groups, literature circles, and process writing groups.
10. Create, discuss, interpret, and respond to literary works using appropriate and effective vocabulary, grammar, spelling, and punctuation in writing, and using appropriate vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation in speaking.
11. Apply self-monitoring and self-correcting strategies while reading, viewing, discussing, listening to, or producing literary texts and essays. Such strategies include asking questions, starting over, rephrasing, and exploring alternative ways of saying things.
12. Apply learning strategies to comprehend and make inferences about literature and produce literary responses. Such strategies include asking questions, using prior knowledge, graphic organizers, and context cues; planning; note taking; and exploring cognates and root words.