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: Performance Indicators State
As documented through state assessment:
At Level 1, the student is able to
At Level 1, the student is able to
8.1.spi.1. formulate appropriate questions during the reading of text.
8.1.spi.2 choose the correct meaning/usage of multi-meaning words by replacing the word in context with an appropriate synonym or antonym.
8.1.spi.3. locate information using available text features (e.g., maps, charts, graphics, indexes, glossaries, tables of contents, and appendices).
8.1.spi.4. identify on a graphic organizer the points at which various plot elements occur.
8.1.spi.5. identify an appropriate title to reinforce the main idea of a passage or paragraph.
8.1.spi. 6. determine cause-effect relationships in context.
8.1.spi. 7. determine inferences from selected passages.
8.1.spi. 8. recognize a reasonable prediction of future events of a passage.
8.1.spi. 9. select information using keywords and headings.
8.1.spi.10. recognize and use grade appropriate and/or content specific vocabulary.
8.1.spi.11. determine an author's purpose for writing or a student's purpose for reading.
8.1.spi.12. identify an implied theme from a selection or related selections.
8.1.spi.13. use text features (e.g., sidebars, footnotes, and endnotes) to determine meaning.
8.1.spi.14. distinguish among different genres (e.g., poetry, drama, letters, ads, historical fiction, biographies, autobiographies, and essays) and their distinguishing characteristics.
8.1.spi.15. identify examples within context of similes, metaphors, alliteration, onomatopoeia, personification, and hyperbole.
8.1.spi.16. choose a logical word or phrase to complete an analogy, using scrambled words and homophones in addition to previously learned analogies.
8.1.spi.17. recognize and identify the techniques of propaganda (i.e., bandwagon, loaded words, and testimonials).
8.1.spi.18. recognize author's point of view (e.g., first person or third person, limited/ omniscient).
8.1.spi.19. determine how a story changes if the point of view is changed.
8.1.spi.20. recognize commonly used foreign phrases (e.g., bonjour, hasta la vista, bon voyage, mi casa es su casa, e pluribus unum, c'est la vie).
8.1.spi.21. identify examples of sound devices within context (e.g. rhyme, alliteration, assonance, slant rhyme, repetition, internal rhyme).
8.1.spi.22. recognize and identify words within context that reveal particular time periods and cultures.
8.1.spi.23. determine the influence of culture and ethnicity on the themes and issues of literary texts.
8.1.spi.24. identify how the author reveals character (e.g., physical characteristics, dialog, what others say about him, what he does).
8.1.spi.25. recognize literary elements that shape meaning within context (e.g., symbolism, foreshadowing, flashback, irony, mood and tone).
8.1.spi.26. identify instances of bias and stereotyping in print and non-print contexts.
8.1.spi.27. recognize the effect of stressed and unstressed syllables to aid in identifying the meaning of multiple meaning words.
8.2.spi.1. complete a graphic organizer (i.e., clustering, listing, mapping, webbing) with information from notes for a writing selection.
8.2.spi.2. select appropriate time-order or transitional words/phrases to enhance the flow of a writing sample.
8.2.spi.3. identify the purpose for writing (i.e., to inform, to describe to explain, to persuade) .
8.2.spi.4. identify the targeted audience for a selected passage.
8.2.spi.5. rearrange multi-paragraphed work in a logical and coherent order.
8.2.spi.6. identify sentences irrelevant to a paragraph's theme or flow.
*8.2.spi.7. select, limit, and refine a topic.
*8.2.spi.8. write well-organized and coherently developed paragraphs.
*8.2.spi.9. reorganize paragraphs into well-organized and coherently developed essays.
*8.2.spi.10. integrate all steps of the writing process: prewriting, drafting, revising, editing, and publishing.
8.2.spi.11. identify levels of reliability among resources (e.g., eyewitness account, newspaper account, supermarket tabloid account, Internet source).
8.2.spi.12. identify individual written selections as technical, narrative, persuasive, and /or descriptive in mode.
8.2.spi.13. select an appropriate thesis statement for a writing sample.
8.2.spi.14. select the most appropriate title for a selection.
8.2.spi.15. select illustrations, explanations, anecdotes, descriptions, and/or facts to in a paragraph.
8.2.spi.16. choose the supporting sentence that best fits the context and flow of ideas in a paragraph.
*8.2.spi.17. write well-developed, organized and coherent essays in response to expository prompts.
*8.2.spi.18 support key ideas with explanations, illustrations, anecdotes and descriptions, and facts.
*8.2.spi.19. revise and edit writings for the elements of language.
*8.2.spi.20. choose vivid words, active voice verbs, figurative language, imagery, colorful modifiers, and sensory details to enhance writings.
*8.2.spi.21. compose clear and correctly punctuated complex sentences to enrich syntactic variety.
8.2.spi.21. select vivid words to strengthen a description (adjective or adverb) within a writing sample or a passage.
8.3.spi.1. identify the correct use of commas (i.e., compound sentences, coordinating conjunctions, introductory words, appositives, and interrupters) within context.
8.3.spi.2. recognize usage errors occurring within context (e.g., subject/verb agreement, pronoun case, double negatives, comparative/superlative forms, troublesome words: where, were; which, that; who, who, whom) within context.
8.3.spi.3. identify the correct placement of prepositions and prepositional phrases within context
8.3.spi.4. select the most appropriate method to correct a run-on sentence (i.e., conjunctions, semicolons, and periods to join or separate elements) within context.
8.3.spi.5. identify the correct use of nouns (i.e., common/proper, singular/plural, possessives, direct/indirect objects, predicate noun), pronouns (i.e., reflexive, interrogative, and demonstrative), verbs (i.e., action/linking, regular/irregular, agreement, perfect tenses, and verb phrases), adjectives (i.e., common/proper, comparative and superlative forms, adjective clauses), adverbs (i.e., comparative and superlative forms), interjections and conjunctions (i.e., coordinating, correlative, and subordinating) within context.
8.3.spi.6. identify within context a variety of appropriate sentence-combining techniques (i.e., comma + coordinating conjunction, use of semicolon, introductory phrases or clauses).
8.3.spi.7. identify the correct use of appositives and appositive phrases and infinitives and infinitive phrases within context.
8.3.spi.8. select the appropriate use of underlining/italicizing with titles, specific words, numbers, letters, and figures.
8.3.spi.9. identify correctly or incorrectlly spelled words in context.
8.3.spi.10. recognize the appropriate use of gerund and participial phrases.
8.3.spi.11. select the correct pronoun/antecedent agreement for personal pronouns within context.