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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 a variety of literary, informational, and persuasive material through reading, listening, viewing, discussing, and writing; use details and evidence as support.
2. Evaluate the quality and dependability of written or spoken texts and visual presentations, on the basis of established criteria; and evaluate the logic and believability of claims made in persuasive material such as an advertisement.
3. Recognize personal point of view in self and others in discussing, interpreting, and evaluating information.
4. Evaluate students' own and others' work, individually and collaboratively, on the basis of a variety of criteria. Criteria include visual presentation; clarity of ideas; logic; originality; comprehensiveness; and use of English vocabulary, grammar, and register.
5. Recognize and explain how structural features affect readers' and listeners' understanding and appreciation of text. Such features include organization, syntax, repetition of words or ideas, vocabulary, and visuals.
6. Speak and write, using the conventions and features of American English, to effectively influence an audience (e.g., to persuade, negotiate, argue). Such spoken language features include appropriate grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation, and intonation. Such written language features include appropriate grammar, vocabulary, correct spelling, punctuation, and capitalization.
7. Engage in collaborative activities through a variety of groupings to discuss, share, reflect on, develop, and express opinions and evaluations about a variety of experiences, ideas, and information. Such groupings include small groups, discussion groups, process writing groups, and cooperative learning groups.
8. Apply self-monitoring and self-correcting strategies using established criteria for effective oral and written presentation to adjust presentation and language production to effectively express opinions and evaluations. Such strategies include asking questions, starting over, rephrasing, and exploring alternative ways of saying things.
9. Apply learning strategies to examine and interpret a variety of materials. Such strategies include using prior knowledge, graphic organizers, and context cues; planning; note taking; and exploring cognates and root words.