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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 texts from a wide range of authors, subjects, genres, cultures, and historical periods. Such sources include poems, stories, myths, fables, plays, novels, and other fiction and nonfiction texts, in authentic and modified forms, including works of American popular culture.
2. Apply reading and listening strategies to make literary text comprehensible and meaningful. Such strategies include skimming, scanning, previewing, reviewing, listening selectively, listening for a specific purpose, and listening for main ideas and details.
3. Identify and explain the distinguishing features of different literary genres, periods, and traditions, and use those features to aid comprehension, interpretation, and discussion of literature.
4. Locate and identify a wide range of significant literary elements and techniques in texts and use those elements to interpret the work, comparing and contrasting the work to other works and to students' own experiences. Such elements include setting, character, plot, theme, point of view, figurative language, text structure, repetition, characterization, imagery, foreshadowing, and climax.
5. Make predictions, inferences, and deductions, and describe different levels of meaning of literary works presented orally and in written form, including literal and implied meanings. Strategies include summarizing; explaining; and identifying word choice, point of view, and symbols.
6. Read aloud with confidence, accuracy, fluency, and expression to demonstrate understanding and to convey an interpretation of meaning.
7. Compose and present personal and formal responses to and interpretations of published literary works 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 stories, poems, sketches, songs, and plays, including those that reflect traditional and popular American culture, using typical features of a given genre; create an effective voice, using a variety of writing styles appropriate to different audiences, purposes, and settings.
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, make inferences about, and analyze literature, and to 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.