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Listen to, read, react to, and retell information
Kindergarten
1. Retell, reenact, or dramatize stories or parts of stories, including personal
events.
2. Demonstrate sense of story (e.g., beginning, middle, end, characters, details).
3. Demonstrate familiarity with a variety of types of books and selections
(e.g., picture books, caption books, short informational texts, nursery rhymes,
word/finger/puppet plays, reenactments of familiar stories).
4. Role-play and act out stories (e.g., fairy tales, songs, rhymes).
5. Follow simple oral instructions.
1st Grade
1. Listen to and retell short stories.
2. Recognize repetition and predict repeated phrases.
3. Respond and elaborate in answering Who, What, When, Where, and How questions.
4. Discuss and explain response to How, Why, and What If questions in sharing
narrative and expository texts.
5. Self-monitor comprehension by using questions, retelling, and summarizing.
6. Follow simple written and oral instructions.
7. Increase vocabulary through reading, listening, and interacting.
2nd Grade
1. Independently recall facts and detail in text.
2. Increase vocabulary through reading, listening, and interacting.
3rd Grade
1. Interact with text before, during, and after reading, listening, or viewing
by:
- setting a purpose
- previewing the text
- making predictions
- asking questions
- locating information for a specific purpose
- making connections
- using story structure and text organization to comprehend
2. Summarize main
idea(s) from written or spoken text succinctly.
3. Employ active listening
skills.
4. Increase vocabulary through reading, listening, and interacting.
4th Grade
1. Use meta-cognitive strategies to comprehend text and to clarify meaning
of vocabulary (e.g., re-read the text, consult other sources, ask for help,
paraphrase, question).
2. Visualize and recall story details, including characterization
and sequence.
3. Read a variety of texts, including:
- fiction (e.g., legends, novels, folklore, science fiction)
- non-fiction (e.g.,
auto-biographies, informational books, diaries, and journals)
- poetry
- drama
4. Increase vocabulary through reading, listening, and interacting.
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Locate and use a variety of resources to acquire information across the curriculum
Kindergarten
1. Demonstrate familiarity with a variety of types of resources
(e.g., picture books, caption books, short informational texts, nursery rhymes,
word/finger/puppet
plays, reenactment of familiar stories, electronic resources).
2. Generate questions of interest about a topic.
1st Grade
1. Demonstrate familiarity with a variety of resources (e.g., story
books, short chapter books, poems, newspapers, compact discs, software, telephone
books, everyday print, skits, and short plays).
2nd Grade
1. Identify and use appropriate sources of information to accomplish
a specific learning task.
2. Use print and electronic resources to access
information (e.g., images, sound, text, video).
3. Select an appropriate format
to locate, gather, access, record, organize, and present information.
3rd Grade
1. Use reference materials (e.g., glossary, dictionary, thesaurus)
to confirm decoding skills, verify spelling, discover and extend meaning
of words.
2. Use encyclopedias, dictionaries, and electronic resources to gather information.
4th Grade
1. Use key words, indices, cross-references, and letters on volumes
to find information.
2. Use multiple representations of information (e.g., maps, charts, photos)
to find information.
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Demonstrate critical thinking skills to comprehend written, spoken, and visual information
Kindergarten
1. Understand oral and graphic instructions.
2. Create mental pictures to predict possible events in text before and during
reading.
3. Compare different versions of the same story.
4. Relate experiences and observations.
5. Formulate questions before beginning to read or listen (e.g., What will
happen in this story? Where do you think this happens? Who might this be?).
6. Sequence a story to describe the beginning, middle, and end.
7. Differentiate between non-fiction and fiction stories.
1st Grade
1. Associate target words with prior knowledge and explore an author's
choice of words.
2. Predict and explain what will happen next in a story.
3. Demonstrate familiarity
with a variety of texts (e.g., story books, short chapter books, poems, newspapers,
telephone books, everyday print, skits and
short plays).
4. Describe differences and similarities between different stories (i.e.,
characters, plot, setting).
2nd Grade
1. Pose possible How, Why, and What If questions to understand and/or
interpret
texts.
2. Recognize own difficulty in comprehending text.
3. Discuss similarities and differences in events and characters across stories.
4. Interpret information from diagrams, charts, and graphs.
3rd Grade
1. Draw conclusions, make generalizations, gather support by referencing
the
text.
2. Explain choice of reading materials congruent with purpose (e.g., solving
problems, making decisions).
4th Grade
1. Respond to fiction, poetry, and drama using interpretive, critical,
and
evaluative processes by:
- analyzing author's word choice and context
- examining reasons for characters'
actions
- identifying and examining characters' motives
- considering a situation or problems
from different characters' perspectives
2.
Respond to non-fiction using interpretive, critical, and evaluative processes.
3.
Analyze characters, events, and plots from different texts and cite supporting
evidence.
4. Analyze how language and visuals bring characters to life, enhance plot
development, and produce a response.
5. Demonstrate deductive and inductive reasoning by drawing logical conclusions.
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Acquire reading strategies
Kindergarten
1. Demonstrate phonemic awareness and knowledge of alphabetic principles by:
- Demonstrating understanding that spoken language is a sequence of identifiable
speech sounds
- Demonstrating understanding that the sequence of letters in the
written word represents the sequence of sounds in the spoken word
- Demonstrating
understanding the sounds of letters and the understanding that
words contain similar sounds
2. Demonstrate decoding and word recognition strategies
and skills by:
- Recognizing and name upper and lower case letters of the alphabet
- Recognizing
common words and signs by sight
- Recognizing beginning consonant letter-sound
associations in one-syllable words
3.
Read or attempt to read own dictated story.
4. Attempt to read simple patterned text, and predict texts using letter-sound
knowledge and pictures to construct meaning.
5. Use appropriate nouns to name
objects.
1st Grade
1. Develop phonemic awareness and knowledge of alphabetic principles
by:
- Blending the phonemes of one-syllables words
- Segmenting the phonemes of one-syllable
words
- Changing the beginning, middle, and ending sounds to produce new words
2. Demonstrate
decoding and word recognition strategies and skills by:
- Using phonics knowledge and sound-letter relationships to decode regular one-syllable
words
Recognizing high-frequency and common irregularly spelled words in text (e.g.,
whole, two, where, said, have)
3. Read aloud with fluency and comprehension
grade-level text.
4. Use pronunciation, sentence meaning, story meaning, and syntax to confirm
accurate decoding or to self-correct errors.
5. Increase vocabulary through reading, listening, and interacting.
2nd Grade
1. Decode unknown words using basic elements of phonetic analysis (e.g., common
letter-sound relationships) and structural analysis (e.g., syllables, suffixes,
prefixes, root words).
2. Read most high-frequency and irregularly spelled words.
3. Self-monitor
decoding by using letter-sound knowledge of all consonants and vowels.
4. Apply knowledge of all sources of information (e.g., meaning, language,
graphophonics) to read new text independently.
5. Read aloud with fluency and comprehension grade-level text.
6. Increase vocabulary through reading, listening, and interacting.
7. Recognize and express difficulty in comprehending text.
3rd Grade
1. Apply phonics and structural analysis to decode words (e.g., less
common vowel patterns, syllable breaks).
2. Apply context clues to decode
unknown words.
3. Use reference materials (e.g., glossary, dictionary, thesaurus) to confirm
decoding skills, verify spelling, and discover and extend meaning of words.
4. Use a variety of strategies to comprehend text (e.g., re-read, read ahead,
ask for help, adjust reading speed, question, paraphrase, retell).
5. Read aloud with fluency and comprehension grade-level text.
6. Increase vocabulary through reading, listening, and interacting.
4th Grade
1. Use word identification strategies appropriately and automatically when
encountering words (e.g., graphophonic, syntactic, semantic).
2. Identify
key words and discover their relationships.
3. Adjust speed of reading to suit purpose and difficulty of material.
4. Read aloud with fluency and comprehension grade-level text.
5. Increase vocabulary through reading, listening, and interacting.
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Listen to, read, react to, and interpret information
5th Grade
1. Listen actively and critically by:
- asking questions
- delving deeper into the topic
- elaborating on the information and the ideas presented
- evaluating information
and ideas
- making inferences and drawing conclusions
- making judgments
2. Make connections between texts by recognizing similarities
and differences based on a common theme, lesson, or message.
3. Read aloud grade-appropriate text with fluency, comprehension, expression,
and personal style demonstrating an awareness of volume, pace, audience, and
purpose.
4. Follow oral instructions that provide information about a task or assignment.
6th Grade
1. Narrate a fictional or autobiographical account.
2. Relate details, main ideas, setting, action, and main character(s).
3. Explore expressive materials that are read, heard, or viewed.
4. Identify and interpret figurative language in an oral selection.
5. Interact appropriately in group settings.
6. Reflect on learning experiences by describing personal learning growth
and change in perspective.
7. Interpret how personal circumstances and background shape interaction with
text.
7th Grade
1. Narrate an account (e.g., news story, historical episode) that creates
a coherent organizing structure appropriate to purpose, audience, and context
and which orients and engages the reader.
2. Respond to informational materials
that are read, heard, or viewed by:
- summarizing the information
- determining the importance of the information
- making connections to related
topics/information
- monitoring comprehension
- drawing inferences
- generating questions
3. Identify the effect of literary devices such as figurative
language, diction,
dialogue, and description.
8th Grade
1. Narrate a personal account that:
- establishes a point of view and sharpens
focus
- uses remembered feelings
- selects details that best illuminate the topic
- connects events to self and society
2. Interact in group activities and/or seminars
to:
- share personal reactions to
questions raised
- give reasons and cite examples
from texts to support opinions
- clarify, illustrate,
or expand on a response
- ask classmates for similar expansion
3. Compare, contrast, and evaluate for
details, main ideas, themes, actions,
and main character from oral selections.
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Gather and use information for research and other purposes
5th Grade
1. Understand concept of primary source.
2. Research multiple sources to deepen understanding and integrate information
and ideas across varied sources and content areas by:
- conducting research (with
assistance) from a variety of sources for assigned or self-selected
projects (e.g., print and non-print texts, artifacts, people,
libraries, databases, Internet, computer networks)
- evaluating the usefulness
and quality of information and ideas based on purpose, experiences,
text(s) and graphics
3. Make connections between print and non-print
texts by recognizing similarities and differences using a variety of resources
that contribute to informed decisions.
6th Grade
1. Interpret and synthesize information from a variety of sources by:
- reviewing
the characteristics of informational works
- restating and summarizing
information
- determining the importance of information
- making connections to related topics
and information
- monitoring comprehension
- drawing inferences
- generating questions
2. Use multiple sources of print and non-print information
in developing informational materials such as brochures, newsletters, and
advertisements by:
- exploring a variety
of sources that provide information (e.g., books, newspapers,
Internet, electronic databases, CD-ROMs
- distinguishing between primary and
secondary sources
3. Organize information
gathered for a research topic into major components
based on appropriate criteria.
7th Grade
1. Use a variety of resources to express individual perspectives in
response to personal, social, cultural, and historical issues.
2. Interpret and synthesize information by responding to information that
is read, heard, or viewed.
3. Develop informational products and/or presentations
that cite multiple print and non-print sources by:
- identifying and using appropriate primary and
secondary sources
- comparing,
contrasting, and evaluating information from different sources
about the same topic
- evaluating information for extraneous details, inconsistencies,
relevant facts,
and organization
4. Examine critical relationships between and among elements
of a research
topic.
8th Grade
1. Use information for specific tasks by:
- analyzing and evaluating information
to extend ideas
- analyzing and evaluating
themes and central ideas in relation to personal and societal issues
- creating a research product in both written and presentation
form
2. Use images,
videos, and visual representations as informational research
tools.
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Apply critical thinking skills to analyze information
5th Grade
1. Evaluate text to determine author' purpose and opinion by:
- evaluating inferences,
conclusions, and generalizations
- identifying elements
of fiction and non-fiction that support plot development, choice
of words, effectiveness of figurative language and personification
2. Evaluate the usefulness and quality of information and ideas based on
purpose,
experiences, text.
3. Respond to fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and drama using
interpretive, critical, and evaluative processes by:
- analyzing word choice and content
- examining reasons for a character's actions
- creating and presenting a product
that demonstrates a personal response
- examining
alternative perspectives
4. Make informed judgments about bias, propaganda,
stereotyping, and media techniques.
5. Analyze cause and effect relationships, compare and contrast information,
facts, characters, and objects to predict a logical outcome based on the information
in the selection.
6. Distinguish between fact and opinion.
6th Grade
1. Use critical thinking skills and create criteria to evaluate text
and multimedia
by:
- determining purpose through exploring bias, apparent messages, emotional
factors, or persuasive techniques
- identifying and exploring the underlying assumptions
of the author
- 2. Recognize
the point of view of the author by considering alternative points
of view or reasons by remaining fair-minded and open to other interpretations.
3.
Develop and apply appropriate criteria to evaluate the quality of communication
by:
- using knowledge of language structure and literary or media techniques
- drawing
conclusions based on evidence, reasons, or relevant information
- considering
the implications, consequences, or impact of those conclusions
7th Grade
1. Use the problem-solving process to refine understanding by:
- analyzing problems
and solutions within various texts and situations
- utilizing
the problem-solving process within various contexts and situations
- constructing
essays and presentations that respond to a given problem by proposing
a solution that includes relevant details
2. Refine critical thinking skills
and develop criteria that evaluate arguments
and judgments by:
- stating a firm judgment
- justifying the judgment with logical, relevant reasons,
clear examples, and supporting details
- creating an organizing structure appropriate to purpose,
audience, and context
3.
Determine how the use of literary devices such as personification, metaphor,
simile, and alliteration convey the author's intent.
4. Interpret universal themes, values, and conflicts in a selection.
8th Grade
1. Create a research product in both written and presentation form by:
- determining purpose, audience, and context
- choosing a relevant topic
- selecting a presentation format (e.g., video, essay,
interactive technology)
- evaluating information for extraneous detail, inconsistencies,
relevant facts, and organization
- researching and organizing information to
achieve purpose using notes and memory aides to structure information
supporting ideas with examples, definitions, analogies, and direct
references to primary and secondary sources
citing sources used
- employing graphics, charts, diagrams, and graphs to enhance
communication
2.
Analyze the inferences and conclusions from fictional and non-fictional contexts,
events, characters, settings, and themes.
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Demonstrate competence in the skills and strategies of the reading process
5th Grade
1. Apply enabling strategies and skills to read by:
- expanding and refining
vocabulary through wide reading, word study, content area study,
writing process elements, writing as a tool, debate, discussions,
seminars, and examining the author's craft
- using word reference materials
- selecting key vocabulary critical to the text
and applying appropriate meanings for understanding
- reading independently to increase fluency and build background
knowledge
2.
Interact with the text by:
- making predictions
- formulating questions
- supporting answers from textual information, previous
experience, and/or other sources
- drawing on personal, literary, and cultural understandings
- seeking additional
information
3. Read a variety of texts (e.g., fiction, nonfiction,
newspaper and magazine articles, poetry, drama)
4. Choose materials to read independently, identifying the main ideas and
significant details, and determine the correct sequence of events or information.
6th Grade
1. Increase fluency, comprehension, and insight through meaningful
and comprehensive reading instruction by:
- using effective reading strategies to match type of
text
- reading self-selected
literature and other materials of individual interest
- reading selections and other materials assigned
- discussing selections in teacher-student
discussions and small groups
- taking
an active role in whole-class seminars
- discussing and analyzing the
effects on texts of literary devices, such as figurative language,
dialogue and flashback
- interpreting text by explaining
elements such as plot, theme, point of view, characterization,
mood, and style
- investigating examples of distortion and
stereotype
- recognizing underlying
messages in order to identify recurring themes
2. Generate
questions to be answered while reading and reflect on what has been learned
after reading.
3. Use specific strategies to clear up confusing parts of a text (e.g., re-read
the text, consult another source, ask for help).
4. Follow oral and written directions for a procedure.
5. Use knowledge of punctuation to assist in comprehension.
7th Grade
1. Respond to various texts and literary selections using interpretive
and evaluative reading processes by:
- reading a variety of literary and other
texts (e.g., mysteries, novels, science fiction, historical documents,
newspapers, skits, lyric poems)
- analyzing what specific characteristics of literary works
(fiction, nonfiction, drama, and poetry) have on the meaning of
the work
- analyzing what impact literary elements have on the meaning of the text,
such as the influence of setting on the problem and its resolution
2. Understand
stories and expository texts from the perspective of the attitudes and values
of the time period in which they were written.
3. Accurately identify author's purpose and perspective.
4. Use knowledge of context and vocabulary to understand informational text.
8th Grade
1. Analyze the purpose of the author or creator and the impact of that purpose
by evaluating bias, messages, and underlying assumptions of a variety of texts
and media.
2. Analyze and evaluate themes and central ideas in literary and other texts
in relation to personal and societal issues.
3. Recognize when information presented in a text is new knowledge and describe
how it can be used.
4. Use the various parts of a text to locate specific information (index,
table of contents, glossary)
5. Identify the topic sentence in a reading selection.
6. Independently apply the reading process and strategies to a variety of
literary and informational texts and use the defining features and structures
of those works to understand main elements, perspective, and style.
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Listen to, read, react to, and analyze information
9th Grade
1. Narrate experiences that offer:
- scenes and incidents located effectively in time and place
- impressions of
being in a setting and a sense of engagement in the events occurring
- appreciation
for the significance of the account
a sense of the narrator's personal voice
2. Instruct an audience in how to
perform a specific operation or procedure by:
- considering the audience's degree of knowledge or understanding
- providing
complete and accurate information
- using visuals and media to make effective
presentations and products
- using layout and design elements to enhance presentations
and products
3. Form and refine a question for investigation using a topic
of personal choice and answer that question by:
- deciding upon and using appropriate methods (e.g., interviews with experts,
observations, finding print and non-print sources, using interactive
technology and media)
- prioritizing and organizing information
- incorporating effective media and
technology to inform or explain
- reporting in an appropriate form for a specified
audience
10th Grade
1. Produce reminiscences (about a person, event, object, place, animal)
that engages the audience by:
- using specific sensory details with purpose
- explaining significance from an
objective perspective
- moving effectively between past and present
- recreating a mood
2. Respond reflectively (through small group discussion,
class discussion, journal entry, essay, letter, dialogue) to written and
visual texts.
3. Create responses that evaluate problems and offer solutions to a reader
or listener by:
- clearly stating the problem and relevant issues
- determining the significance
of the problem
- focusing on a neutral audience
- logically organizing the solutions for a specific
audience
- offering and evaluating effective solutions
- creating a sense of resolution
or closure
4. Evaluate the information, explanations, or ideas of others
by:
- identifying clear, reasonable criteria for evaluation
- applying those criteria
using reasoning and substantiation
11th Grade
1. Demonstrate increasing insight and reflection to print and non-print
text through personal expression.
2. Reflect and respond expressively to texts so that the audience will:
- discover multiple perspectives
- investigate and articulate connections
- explore how life experiences influence
a response to a selection
- recognize that responses of others may be different
3. Respond to informational texts by:
- using a variety of strategies for preparation,
engagement, and reflection
- paraphrasing main ideas and supporting details
- explaining significant connections
between speaker?s/author?s purpose, tone, biases, and the message
for the intended audience
12th Grade
1. Express reflections and reactions to print and non-print texts
as well as to personal experience by:
- composing and presenting reflective
texts that give an audience an understanding of complex thoughts
and feelings, a sense of significance, and a sense of
encouragement to reflect on own ideas
- responding to texts make connections,
reflecting on cultural and historical perspectives, examining own
response, and recognizing features of the author's
- use of language and how the writer
relates to the subject so that the audience will empathize
2. Analyze and critique texts from various perspectives and approaches
by:
- developing critiques based on establishing and applying clear, credible
criteria for evaluation
- substantiating assessments with reasons and evidence
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Synthesize and evaluate information to solve problems across the curriculum
9th Grade
1. Use a variety of techniques for researching topics including:
- cross-referencing
while gathering information
- summarizing dialogue
- using news sources (e.g., newspapers, magazines, TV,
radio, videotapes, Internet, email, government publications, microfiche,
other library resources)
2. Synthesize a variety of types of visual information including pictures
and symbols.
10th Grade
1. Use a variety of information resources to critically interpret and evaluate
experiences, language, and ideas.
2. Make extensive use of primary sources when researching a topic and make
in-depth analyses of the validity and reliability of primary source information.
3. Use multiple resources to gather information to evaluate problems, examine
cause and effect relationships, and answer research questions to inform an
audience.
11th Grade
1. Conduct research using data from in-depth field studies.
2. Synthesize information from multiple research studies to draw conclusions
that go beyond those found in any of the individual studies.
3. Inform an audience by using a variety of media to research and explain
insights.
4. Demonstrate proficiency in accessing and sending information electronically.
12th Grade
1. Identify and defend research questions and topics that will be
important
in the future.
2. Use a variety of resources to gather information to critically analyze
texts to gain meaning, develop thematic connections, and synthesize ideas.
3. Demonstrate increasing sophistication in the selection and use of resources
to define issues and use argument effectively.
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Demonstrate critical thinking skills to evaluate information and solve problems
9th Grade
1. Examine texts for arguments and develop informed opinions by:
- examining
relevant reason and evidence
- noting the progression of ideas that substantiate
the proposal
- analyzing the style, tone, and use of language for a particular
effect
- identifying and analyzing personal, social, historical, or cultural
influences, contexts, or biases
- identifying and analyzing rhetorical strategies
that support proposals
2. Support informed opinions by providing relevant and convincing reasons,
using various types of evidence, language, and organizational structure, and
demonstrating an awareness of possible questions, concerns, or counter-arguments.
3. Create and use criteria to evaluate the effectiveness of communication.
4. Represent abstract information (e.g., concepts, generalizations) as explicit
mental pictures.
10th Grade
1. Examine controversial issues by:
- sharing and evaluating personal response
- researching and summarizing data
- developing a framework in which to discuss
the issue (creating the context)
- compiling personal responses and researched
data to organize the argument
- presenting data in various forms (e.g., graph,
essay, speech, video)
2. Critically interpret and evaluate experiences, literature,
language, and ideas by:
- making generalizations supported by specific references
- reflecting on observations
and their relationship to a current viewpoint
- distinguishing fact from fiction
and recognizing personal bias
3. Identify critical questions that would lead
to a broader understanding of a selection.
4. Identify complex literary terms
and find examples in text.
5. Read critically and independently to draw conclusions from research.
11th Grade
1. Use language persuasively in addressing a particular issue by:
- finding and interpreting information effectively
- recognizing propaganda as
a purposeful technique
- establishing and defending a particular perspective
- responding respectfully
to viewpoints and biases
2. Use critical analysis to gain meaning, develop
thematic connections, and synthesize ideas by:
- examining the functions and
effects of narrative strategies (e.g., plot, conflict, suspense,
point of view, characterization, dialogue)
- interpreting effects of figures of speech
and the effects of sounds
- analyzing stylistic features such as word choice
and links between sense and sound
- identifying ambiguity, contradiction, irony,
parody, and satire
- demonstrating how selections reflect the cultures that
shaped them.
2. Analyze overall effectiveness of one's own writing.
12th Grade
1. Research, define, and present issues of public concern by:
- using a variety
of resources such as media centers, on-line resources, interviews,
and personal reflection
- specifying the nature of an issue, including claims made and the
reasoning that supports those claims
- organizing and delivering a presentation
that specifies reasons for the claim and makes a clear stance on
the issue.
2. Identify and analyze the philosophical assumptions and basic beliefs underlying
an author?s work.
3. Analyze the effects on a text of the attitudes and values of a period in
which the text was written.
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Apply knowledge of reading process to evaluate print, non-print, and technology-based information
9th Grade
1. Explain meaning, describe processes, and answer research questions to inform
others by:
- demonstrating the ability to read and listen to explanatory texts
using appropriate preparation, engagement, and reflection
- demonstrating comprehension
of major ideas
- summarizing major steps
- determining accuracy and clarity of the selection
2. Demonstrate increasing
comprehension and ability to respond personally to texts by selecting and
exploring a wide range of literary forms.
3. Accurately interpret information from and detect inconsistencies in a variety
of informational, literary, and technical texts.
4. Scan reading selections to determine whether a text contains relevant information.
5. Use discussion with peers as a way of understanding information.
6. Effectively use a variety of interactive technologies to enhance understanding
of reading selections (e.g., internet, email, CD-ROM, on-line publications,
digital images, video).
10th Grade
1. Pose questions prompted by text and research answers by:
- accessing cultural
information or explanations from print and non-print media sources
- prioritizing
and organizing information to construct a complete and reasonable
explanation
2. Analyze the ideas of others by identifying the ways in which writers:
- introduce and develop a main idea
- choose and incorporate significant, supporting,
relevant details
- relate the structure/organization to the ideas
- use effective word choice as
a basis for coherence
- achieve a sense of completeness and closure
3. Demonstrate increasing comprehension
and ability to respond personally to texts by selecting and exploring a wide
range of works that relate
to an issue,
author, or theme.
4. Identify complex, implicit hierarchic structures
in informational texts and relationships between the concepts and details
in these structures.
11th Grade
1. Demonstrate an understanding of the conventions of language by:
- decoding
vocabulary using knowledge Greek and Latin bases and affixes
- discerning the
relationship of word meanings between pairs of words in analogies
(synonyms/antonyms, connotation/denotation)
- contrasting use of language conventions of authors
in different time periods
- analyzing the power of standard usage over nonstandard
usage in a variety of settings (e.g., job interviews, academic
environment, public speaking)
2. Reorganize the concepts and details in informational
texts in new ways and describe the advantages and disadvantages of the new
organization.
3. Recognize how new information changes one's personal knowledge base.
4. Understand complex dialogues and analyze the stylistic effect of those
dialogues on a selection, including interpreting culturally specific ambiguities,
subtleties, contradictions, ironies, and nuances.
5. Accurately interpret information presented in a technical format (e.g.,
charts, diagrams, tables).
6. Use an array of media and technologies to examine and comprehend information.
12th Grade
1. Read a wide variety of informational and literary texts and selections
to:
- understand and express reflections and reactions to print and non-print
text, as well as, personal experience
- inform an audience
- develop an argument to support an issue or position
- conduct research and make
in-depth analyses of information
- synthesize ideas and generate new understanding
to increase a knowledge base
2. Demonstrate an understanding of a variety of different cultural perspectives
through selected literary works.
3. Analyze recurring themes and patterns in literary selections and oral traditions
of other cultures.
4. Identify and select appropriate text for a specific task using an array
of advanced technologies (e.g., web resources, interactive media, software,
email, networks).
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