Students will listen, speak, read, write, view, and represent to:
1. Explore thoughts, ideas, feelings, and experiences

• discover possibilities
  • form tentative understandings, interpretations, and positions
  • experiment with language, image, and structure

• extend awareness
  • consider new perspectives
  • express preferences, and expand interests
  • set personal goals for language growth

2. Comprehend literature and other texts in oral, print, visual, and multimedia forms, and respond personally, critically, and creatively.

• respond to a variety of print and nonprint texts
  • connect self, text, culture, milieu
  • evaluate the verisimilitude, appropriateness, and significance of print and nonprint texts
  • appreciate the effectiveness and artistry of print and nonprint texts

• construct meaning form text and context
  • discern and analyze context
  • understand and interpret content
  • engage prior knowledge
  • use reference strategies and reference technologies

• understand and appreciate textual forms, elements, and techniques
  • relate form, structure, and medium to purpose, audience, and content
  • relate elements, devices, and techniques to created effects

3. Manage ideas and information

• determine inquiry or research requirements
  • focus on purpose and presentation form
  • plan inquiry or research, and identify information needs and sources
• follow a plan of inquiry
  • select, record, and organize information
  • evaluate sources, and assess information
  • form generalizations and conclusions
  • review inquiry or research process and findings

4. Create oral, print, visual, and multimedia texts, and enhance the clarity and artistry of communication

• develop and present a variety of print and nonprint texts
  • assess text creation content
  • consider and address form, structure, and medium
  • develop content
  • use production, publication, and presentation strategies and technologies consistent with context

• improve thoughtfulness, effectiveness, and enhance the clarity and artistry of communication
  • enhance thought and understanding and support and detail
  • enhance organization
  • consider and address matters of choice
  • edit text for matters of correctness

5. Respect, support, and collaborate with others

• respect others and strengthen community
  • use language and image to show respect and consideration
  • appreciate diversity of expression, opinion, and perspective
  • recognize accomplishments and events

• work within a group
  • cooperate with others and contribute to group processes
  • understand and evaluate group processes

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