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E1: Reading

Standard 1: The student uses the reading processes effectively.

 

Benchmark LA.A.1.3.2:

The student uses a variety of strategies to analyze words and text, draw conclusions, use context and word structure clues, and recognize organizational patterns.

 

Benchmark LA.A.1.3.3:

The student demonstrates consistent and effective use of interpersonal and academic vocabularies in reading, writing, listening, and speaking.

 

Benchmark LA.A.1.3.4:

The student uses strategies to clarify meaning, such as rereading, note taking, summarizing, outlining, and writing a grade level-appropriate report.

 

Standard 2: The student constructs meaning from a wide range of texts.

 

Benchmark LA.A.2.3.1:

determines the main idea or essential message in a text and identifies relevant details and facts and patterns of organization.

 

 

E2: Writing

Standard 1: The student uses the writing processes effectively.

 

Benchmark LA.B.1.3.2:

drafts and revises writing that: is focused, purposeful, and reflects insight into the writing situation; conveys a sense of completeness and wholeness with adherence to the main idea; has an organizational pattern that provides for a logical progression of ideas; has support that is substantial, specific, relevant, concrete, and/or illustrative; demonstrates a commitment to and an involvement with the subject; has clarity in presentation of ideas; uses creative writing strategies appropriate to the purpose of the paper; demonstrates a command of language (word choice) with freshness of expression; has varied sentence structure and sentences that are complete except when fragments are used purposefully; and has few, if any, convention errors in mechanics, usage, and punctuation.

 

E3: Listening, Viewing, and Speaking

Standard 2: The student uses viewing strategies effectively.

 

Benchmark LA.C.2.3.1:

determines main concept, supporting details, stereotypes, bias, and persuasion techniques in a nonprint message.

 

Standard 3: The student uses speaking strategies effectively.

 

Benchmark LA.C.3.4.3:

uses details, illustrations, analogies, and visual aids to make oral presentations that inform, persuade, or entertain.

 

 

E5: Literature

Standard 2: The student responds critically to fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama.

 

Benchmark LA.E.2.4.3:

analyzes poetry for the ways in which poets inspire the reader to share emotions, such as the use of imagery, personification, and figures of speech, including simile and metaphor; and the use of sound, such as rhyme, rhythm, repetition, and alliteration.

 

By the time the students leave this class these are the standards they should have mastered.