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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 and for writing to or for self, applying the conventions of social writing. Such forms include friendly notes, invitations, and electronic messages, diary entries, and notes to self.
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 academic situations.
6. Understand and use a variety of oral communication strategies in American English for various social and academic purposes. Such strategies include indicating lack of understanding, clarifying or requesting clarification, restatement, and checking listeners' understanding.
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, expressions, language, routines, and interaction styles for various audiences and formal and informal social or school situations. Such expressions and routines include asking permission, making and responding to requests, greeting, making promises, thanking, and apologizing. Such situations include chatting with friends, participating in group discussions, greeting a principal or other adult, and making purchases.
10. Demonstrate appropriate classroom behaviors (e.g., participating in small group and whole class discussions, being courteous, 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.