English
Language Arts
Standard
1: Language for Information and Understanding
Students will listen, speak, read,
and write for information and understanding. As listeners and readers, students will
collect data, facts, and ideas; discover relationships, concepts, and generalizations; and
use knowledge generated from oral, written, and electronically produced texts. As speakers
and writers, they will use oral and written language that follows the accepted conventions
of the English language to acquire, interpret, apply, and transmit information.
Standard 2: Language for Literary
Response and Expression
Students will read and listen to
oral, written, and electronically produced texts and performances from American and world
literature; relate texts and performances to their own lives; and develop an understanding
of the diverse social, historical, and cultural dimensions the texts and performances
represent. As speakers and writers, students will use oral and written language that
follows the accepted conventions of the English language for self-expression and artistic
creation.
Standard 3: Language for Critical
Analysis and Evaluation
Students will listen, speak, read,
and write for critical analysis and evaluation. As listeners and readers, students will
analyze experiences, ideas, information, and issues presented by others using a variety of
established criteria. As speakers and writers, they will use oral and written language
that follows the accepted conventions of the English language to present, from a variety
of perspectives, their opinions and judgments on experiences, ideas, information and
issues.
Standard 4: Language for Social
Interaction
Students will listen, speak, read,
and write for social interaction. Students will use oral and written language that follows
the accepted conventions of the English language for effective social communication with a
wide variety of people. As readers and listeners, they will use the social communications
of others to enrich their understanding of people and their views. |