English Language Arts Learning Standards

• 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.
  • Listening and Reading
    • Key Idea 1- Listening and reading to acquire information and understanding involves collecting data, facts, and ideas; discovering relationships, concepts, and generalizations; and using knowledge from oral, written, and electronic sources.
      
  • Speaking and Writing
    
    • Key Idea 2 - Speaking and writing to acquire and transmit information requires asking probing and clarifying questions, interpreting information in one's own words, applying information from one context to another, and presenting the information and interpretation clearly, concisely, and comprehensibly.
      Communicating and Writing
      
    • Key Idea 2 - Alternate - Communicating and writing to acquire and transmit information requires asking questions, applying information from one context to another and presenting the information clearly.

       

• 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.
  • Listening and Reading
    
    • Key Idea 1 - Listening and reading for literary response involves comprehending, interpreting, and critiquing imaginative texts in every medium, drawing on personal experiences and knowledge to understand the text, and recognizing the social, historical and cultural features of the text.
      
    • Key Idea 1 - Alternate - Listening and reading for literary response involves learning about imaginative texts in every medium, drawing personal experiences and knowledge to understand the text, and recognizing the social, historical and cultural features of the text.
      Speaking and Writing
      
    • Key Idea 2 - Speaking and writing for literary response involves presenting interpretations, analyses, and reactions to the content and language of a text. Speaking and writing for literary expression involves producing imaginative texts that use language and text structures that are inventive and often multilayered.
      
    • Key Idea 2 - Alternate - Speaking and writing for literary response and expression involves reacting to the content and language of a text.

• Standard 3: Language for Criticai 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.
  • Listening and Reading
    
    • Key Idea 1- Listening and reading to analyze and evaluate experiences, ideas, information, and issues requires using evaluative criteria from a variety of perspectives and recognizing the difference in evaluations based on different sets of criteria.
      Key Idea 1 - Alternate - During listening and reading activities, analysis and evaluation of experiences, ideas, information, and issues are used. This requires using evaluative criteria from a variety of perspectives and recognizing the difference in evaluations based on different sets of criteria.
      
  • Speaking and Writing
    
    • Key Idea 2 - Speaking and writing for critical analysis and evaluation requires presenting opinions and judgments on experiences, ideas, information, and issues clearly, logically, and persuasively with reference to specific criteria on which the opinion or judgment is based.
      
    • Key Idea 2 - Alternate - Speaking and writing for critical analysis and evaluation requires presenting opinions and judgments on experience, 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.
  • Listening and Speaking
    
    • Key Idea 1- Oral communication in formal and informal settings requires the ability to talk with people of different ages, genders, and cultures, to adapt presentations to different audiences, and to reflect on how talk varies in different situations.
      
  • Reading and Writing
    
    • Key Idea 2 - Written communication for social interaction requires using written messages to establish, maintain, and enhance personal relationships with others.