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Standards:: 1: Students will listen, speak, read, and write in English for information and understanding.
Performance Indicators:
1. Identify and use reading and listening strategies to make text comprehensible and meaningful. Such strategies include skimming; scanning; previewing; reviewing; discussing, listening selectively; listening for a specific purpose; listening for main ideas and details; note taking; using structural and context clues, cognates, format, sequence, and an understanding of lettersound relationships to decode difficult words.
2. Read, gather, view, listen to, organize, discuss, interpret, and analyze information related to academic content areas from various sources. Such sources include nonfiction books for young adults, reference books, magazines, textbooks, the Internet, databases, audio and media presentations, oral interviews, charts, graphs, maps, and diagrams.
3. Select information appropriate to the purpose of the investigation with suitable supporting material. Such material includes facts, details, illustrative examples, anecdotes, and personal experiences.
4. Compare, contrast, categorize, and synthesize information and objects, and identify complexities and discrepancies in the information.
5. Formulate, ask, and respond to various questions forms to obtain, clarify, and extend information and meaning.
6. Support inferences about information and ideas with reference to features in oral and written text. Such features include vocabulary, format, facts, sequence, register, and relevance of details.
7. Present information clearly in a variety of oral and written forms for different audiences and purposes related to all academic content areas. Such forms include paraphrases, summaries, stories, research reports, essays, articles, posters, charts, and other graphics.
8. Select a focus, organization, and point of view for oral and written presentations, and justify this selection.
9. Convey and organize information, using facts, details, illustrative examples, and a variety of patterns and structures. Such patterns and structures include chronological order, cause and effect, problem and solution, and general-to-specific presentation.
10. Distinguish between fact and opinion, and relevant and irrelevant information, and exclude nonessential information in oral and written presentations.
11. Use the process of prewriting, drafting, revising, peer editing, and proofreading (the "writing process") to produce well-constructed informational texts.
12. Convey information and ideas through spoken and written language, using conventions and features of American English appropriate to audience and purpose. Such spoken language features include appropriate grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation, and intonation. Such written language features include appropriate grammar, vocabulary, correct spelling, punctuation, capitalization, paragraphing, and a wide variety of sentence structures.
13. Engage in collaborative activities through a variety of student groupings to read, gather, share, discuss, interpret, organize, analyze, synthesize, and present information. Such groupings include small groups, cooperative learning groups, process writing groups, cross-age groupings, research groups, and interest groups.
14. Consult print and nonprint resources (e.g., audio/visual media, family) in the native language when needed.
15. Apply self-monitoring and self-correcting strategies for accurate language production and oral and written presentation, using established criteria for effective presentation of information.
16. Apply learning strategies to acquire information and make texts comprehensible and meaningful. Such strategies include using prior knowledge, graphic organizers, reference materials, and context cues; planning; note taking; questioning; exploring cognates and root words; and applying ideas to new settings or experiences.