Communication: Speaking, Listening, Media Literacy
4.1 The student will use effective oral communication skills in a variety of settings.
- a) Present accurate directions to individuals and small groups.
- b) Contribute to group discussions across content areas.
- c) Seek ideas and opinions of others.
- d) Use evidence to support opinions.
- e) Use grammatically correct language and specific vocabulary to communicate ideas.
- f) Communicate new ideas to others.
- g) Demonstrate the ability to collaborate with diverse teams.
- h) Demonstrate the ability to work independently.
4.2 The student will make and listen to oral presentations and reports.
- a) Use subject-related information and vocabulary.
- b) Listen to and record information.
- c) Organize information for clarity.
- d) Use language and style appropriate to the audience, topic, and purpose.
4.3 The student will learn how media messages are constructed and for what purposes.
- a) Differentiate between auditory, visual, and written media messages.
- b) Identify the characteristics of various media messages.
Reading
4.4 The student will expand vocabulary when reading.
- a) Use context to clarify meanings of unfamiliar words.
- b) Use knowledge of roots, affixes, synonyms, antonyms, and homophones.
- c) Use word-reference materials, including the glossary, dictionary, and thesaurus.
- d) Develop vocabulary by listening to and reading a variety of texts.
- e) Use vocabulary from other content areas.
4.5 The student will read and demonstrate comprehension of fictional texts, narrative nonfiction texts, and poetry.
- a) Explain the author’s purpose.
- b) Describe how the choice of language, setting, characters, and information contributes to the author’s purpose.
- c) Identify the main idea.
- d) Summarize supporting details.
- e) Identify the problem and solution.
- f) Describe the relationship between text and previously read materials.
- g) Identify sensory words.
- h) Draw conclusions/make inferences about text.
- i) Make, confirm, or revise predictions.
- j) Identify cause and effect relationships.
- k) Use reading strategies throughout
4.6 The student will read and demonstrate comprehension of nonfiction texts.
- a) Use text structures, such as type, headings, and graphics, to predict and categorize information in both print and digital texts.
- b) Formulate questions that might be answered in the selection.
- c) Explain the author’s purpose.
- d) Identify the main idea.
- e) Summarize supporting details.
- f) Draw conclusions and make simple inferences using textual information as support.
- g) Distinguish between cause and effect.
- h) Distinguish between fact and opinion.
- i) Use prior knowledge and build additional background knowledge as context for new learning.
- j) Identify new information gained from reading.
- k) Use reading strategies throughout the reading process to monitor comprehension.
- l) Read with fluency and accuracy.
Writing
4.7 The student will write cohesively for a variety of purposes.
- a) Identify intended audience.
- b) Focus on one aspect of a topic.
- c) Use a variety of pre-writing strategies.
- d) Organize writing to convey a central idea.
- e) Recognize different modes of writing have different patterns of organization.
- f) Write a clear topic sentence focusing on the main idea.
- g) Write two or more related paragraphs on the same topic.
- h) Use transition words for sentence variety.
- i) Utilize elements of style, including word choice and sentence variation.
- j) Revise writing for clarity of content using specific vocabulary and information.
- k) Include supporting details that elaborate the main idea.
4.8 The student will edit writing for correct grammar, capitalization, spelling, punctuation, sentence structure, and paragraphing.
- a) Use subject-verb agreement.
- b) Include prepositional phrases.
- c) Eliminate double negatives.
- d) Use noun-pronoun agreement.
- e) Use commas in series, dates, and addresses.
- f) Incorporate adjectives and adverbs.
- g) Use correct spelling for frequently used words, including common homophones.
- h) Use singular possessives.
Research
4.9 The student will demonstrate comprehension of information resources to research a topic.
- a) Construct questions about a topic.
- b) Collect information from multiple resources including online, print, and media.
- c) Use technology as a tool to organize, evaluate, and communicate information.
- d) Give credit to sources used in research.
- e) Understand the difference between plagiarism and using own words.
