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Standard(s):
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State Reading Standards
Standard 1: Learners demonstrate skill in reading a variety of materials for
a variety of purposes.
Benchmark 1: The proficient reader comprehends whole pieces of narration,
exposition, persuasion, and technical writing.
Indicators:
The students:
1. make inferences from the text.
2. differentiate between main ideas and supporting details.
6. summarize the text.
11. compare and contrast ideas and concepts from multiple sources.
Benchmark 5: The proficient reader draws conclusions supported by the text.
Indicators
The students:
1. identify a theme in a narrative text.
State Writing Standards
Standard 2: Learners write effectively for a variety of audiences, purposes,
and contexts.
Benchmark 1: A proficient writer uses ideas that are well developed, clear
and interesting.
Indicators:
The students:
1. produce compositions that have one main idea and support the main idea
with details.
Benchmark 3: The proficient writer uses organization that enhances the readerÌs
understanding.
Indicators:
The students:
1. write a coherent and cohesive piece with a clear introduction, supporting
ideas, and a conclusion.
2. write introductions that draw the reader in.
3. write supporting details presented in a logical
order.
4. use transitions to allow ideas to flow smoothly within and between
paragraphs.
5. write conclusions that provide a sense of resolution.
Benchmark 5: The proficient writer uses clear and fluent sentences.
Indicators:
The students:
1. vary sentence structure (simple, compound, and complex) and the length of
sentences for more effective writing.
Benchmark 6: The proficientß writer uses standard American English
conventions.
Indicators:
The students:
1. use complete sentences.
2. use appropriate paragraphing.
3. correctly use a wide range of conventionsß, such as spelling, end marks,
commas, quotation marks, semicolons, colons, subject and verb agreement, and
pronoun agreement.
4. write so that only light editing is needed to polish the text for
publication.
State Viewing Standards
Standard: Learners will demonstrate skills in viewing for a variety of
purposes.
Benchmark 4: The effective viewer remembers and applies the content of visual
messages.
Indicators:
The students:
2. assimilate knowledge from viewing and use this knowledge in new contexts.
State Media Products Standards
Standard: Communicators effectively use a variety of media to create products
to communicate for a variety of audiences, purposes, occasions, and contexts.
Benchmark 1: The effective communicator is knowledgeable about various
methods that can be used to create aural and visual products.
Indicators:
The students:
1. know various methods to create media products, such as computer
applications, video and audio tapes, recordings, live presentations, and
props.
Benchmark 2: The effective communicator creates single media and multi-media
products.
Indicators:
The students:
2. create products that support/enhance a
message.
3. choose appropriate media for content, purpose, audience, occasion, and
context.
Benchmark 3: The effective communicator uses appropriate content for purpose,
audience, occasion, and context.
Indicators:
The students:
3. adapt content for the purpose, audience, occasions, and context.
State Literary Response Standards
Standard 3: Learners demonstrate knowledge of literature from a variety of
cultures, genresß, and time periods.
Benchmark 1: The proficient reader demonstrates knowledge of the effects of
cultures on literature.
Indicators:
The students:
1. analyze the impact of culture on a character.
Benchmark 3: The proficient reader demonstrates knowledge of the effects of
time periods on literature.
Indicators:
The students:
1. connect main events in the literature to historical context.
Standard 4: Learners demonstrate skills needed to read and respond to
literature.
Benchmark 1: The proficient reader uses literary concepts to interpret
literature.
Indicators:
The students:
1. identify elements of fiction and drama, such as initiating event,
character's goals, attempts, and outcomes.
2. make inferences and draw conclusions about story elements, such as theme,
plot, setting, character.
3. recognize use of literary devices, such as foreshadowing, flashback, and
figurative language.
Benchmark 2: The proficient reader evaluates literature with criteria based
on purposes for reading and derived from time periods and cultures.
Indicators:
The students:
1. interpret connections between characters and events in literature and
people and events in their lives.
State Information Retrieval Standards
Standard: The communicator will retrieve information from a variety of
appropriate sources.
Benchmark 3: The effective communicator collects, sorts, and selects sources
and information.
Indicators:
The students:
1. gather information from primary and secondary sources.
2. sort/select and narrow information using strategies, such as graphic
organizers, note taking, and highlighting.
Benchmark 4: The effective communicator analyzes/ evaluates the sources and
information.
Indicators:
The students:
2. analyze/evaluate the credibility of sources and accuracy of the
information
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