ELA

The following are taken from the English Language Arts Core Curriculum (Prekindergarten-Grade 12) (2005 version)

How to read the numbers: For example, Gr11S

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.

Key Idea 1 - Reading

• Elementary: Read unfamiliar informational texts to collect data, facts, and ideas   G3R
• Intermediate: Condense, combine, or categorize new information from one or more sources  G7R
• Commencement: Analyze and synthesize information from different sources, making connections and showing relationships to other texts, ideas, and subjects and to the world at large  G12R

Key Idea 2 - Writing

• Elementary: Connect personal experiences to new information from school subject areas  Gr3W
• Intermediate: Use several sources of information, in addition to an encyclopedia, to develop research reports  Gr7W
• Commencement: Analyze data, facts, and ideas to communicate information Gr10W

Key Idea 3 - Listening

• Elementary: Identify a main idea, essential details, and supporting details Gr4L
• Intermediate: Draw conclusions and make inferences on the basis of explicit information  Gr7L
• Commencement: Interpret and analyze information from media presentations, such as documentary films, news broadcasts, taped interviews, and debates  Gr12L

Key Idea 4 - Speaking

• Elementary: Share observations from the classroom, home, or community Gr1S
• Intermediate: Present information to address audience needs  Gr7S
• Commencement: Ask and respond to probing and challenging questions to acquire information  Gr11S

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.

Key Idea 1 - Reading

• Elementary: Identify cultural influences in texts and performances  Gr4R
• Intermediate: Identify social and cultural context and other characteristics of the time period to enhance understanding and appreciation of the text  Gr7R
• Commencement: Read, view, and respond independently to literary works that represent a range of social, historical, and cultural perspectives  Gr10R

Key Idea 2 - Writing

• Elementary: Use resources such as personal experiences and elements from other texts and performances to stimulate own writing  Gr3W
• Intermediate: Respond to literature, connecting the response to personal experience  Gr6W

• Commencement: Write original literary texts to create social, historical, and/or cultural context  Gr11W

Key Idea 3 – Listening

• Elementary: Connect literary texts to personal experiences and previously encountered texts to enhance understanding and appreciation  Gr3L
• Intermediate: Identify cultural and historical influences in texts and performances Gr6L     

• Commencement: Recognize and respond to historical and contemporary social, political, and cultural conditions in presentation of literary texts Gr10L

Key Idea 4 - Speaking

• Elementary: Respond to stories, legends, and songs from different cultural and ethnic groups  Gr1S
• Intermediate: Explain social, historical, and cultural features of literary text Gr7S
• Commencement: Express opinions and support them through references to the text Gr9S

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.

Key Idea 1 - Reading

• Elementary: Identify different perspectives, such as social, cultural, ethnic, and historical, on an issue presented in more than one text  Gr5R
• Intermediate: Evaluate the validity and accuracy of information, ideas, themes, opinions, and experiences in texts: for example, identify cultural and ethnic values and their impact on content  Gr8R
• Commencement: Form opinions and make judgments about literary works, by analyzing and evaluating texts from more than one critical perspective, such as cultural and historical  Gr10R

Key Idea 2 - Writing

• Elementary: Use details from stories or informational texts to predict or explain relationships between information and events Gr3W
• Intermediate: Present a subject from more than one perspective by using various resources (e.g., news articles, nonfiction texts, personal experiences, and other school subjects) Gr7W
• Commencement: Develop critiques from more than one perspective, such as historical, cultural, social, and psychological  Gr12W

Key Idea 3—Listening

• Elementary: Distinguish between fact and opinion Gr3L
• Intermediate: Suspend judgment until all information has been presented Gr8L
• Commencement: Evaluate the expertise and possible bias of the speaker, in order to judge the validity of the content Gr10L

Key Idea 4—Speaking

• Elementary: Analyze and evaluate new ideas by using personal experiences and knowledge  Gr3S
• Intermediate: Present a subject from one or more perspectives  Gr7S
• Commencement: Express opinions or make judgments about ideas, information, experiences, and issues in literary and historical articles   Gr9S

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.

Key Idea 1 - Reading

• Elementary: Respect the age, gender, social position, and cultural traditions of the writer  Gr1R
• Intermediate: Recognize the types of language (e.g., jargon, colloquialisms, informal vocabulary, and email conventions) that are appropriate to social communication  Gr6R
• Commencement: Respect the age, gender, social position, and cultural traditions of the writer  Gr10R

Key Idea 2 - Writing

• Elementary: Develop a personal voice that enables the reader to get to know the writer  Gr4W
• Intermediate: Respect the age, gender, social position, and cultural traditions of the recipient  Gr6W
• Commencement: Respect the age, gender, and cultural traditions of the recipient Gr10W

Key Idea 3 – Listening

• Elementary: Respect the age, gender, social position, and culture of the speaker Gr2L
• Intermediate: Listen for more than one level of meaning, articulated and unspoken Gr8L
• Commencement: Withhold judgment  Gr11L

Key Idea 4 - Speaking

• Elementary: Respect the age, gender, social position, and cultural traditions of the listener when speaking  Gr2S
• Intermediate: Use culture-specific language, jargon, and colloquialisms appropriate to the purpose and the listener  Gr7S
• Commencement: Respect the age, gender, social position, and cultural traditions of the listener   Gr11S

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