State Curriculum - Reading

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Standard 6.0 Listening: Students will demonstrate effective listening to learn, process, and analyze information. Standard 6.0 Listening: Students will demonstrate effective listening to learn, process, and analyze information. Standard 6.0 Listening: Students will demonstrate effective listening to learn, process, and analyze information. Standard 6.0 Listening: Students will demonstrate effective listening to learn, process, and analyze information. Standard 6.0 Listening: Students will demonstrate effective listening to learn, process, and analyze information. Standard 6.0 Listening: Students will demonstrate effective listening to learn, process, and analyze information. Standard 6.0 Listening: Students will demonstrate effective listening to learn, process, and analyze information. Standard 6.0 Listening: Students will demonstrate effective listening to learn, process, and analyze information. Standard 6.0 Listening: Students will demonstrate effective listening to learn, process, and analyze information. Standard 6.0 Listening: Students will demonstrate effective listening to learn, process, and analyze information.
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1. Demonstrate active listening strategies
1. Demonstrate active listening strategies
1. Demonstrate active listening strategies
1. Demonstrate active listening strategies
1. Demonstrate active listening strategies
1. Demonstrate active listening strategies
1. Demonstrate active listening strategies
1. Apply and demonstrate listening skills appropriately in a variety of settings and for a variety of purposes
1. Apply and demonstrate listening skills appropriately in a variety of settings and for a variety of purposes
1. Apply and demonstrate listening skills appropriately in a variety of settings and for a variety of purposes
a. Attend to the speaker
a. Attend to the speaker
a. Attend to the speaker
a. Attend to the speaker
a. Attend to the speaker
a. Attend to the speaker
a. Attend to the speaker
a. Attend to the speaker
a. Use criteria to evaluate oral presentations such as purpose, delivery techniques, content, visual aids, body language, and facial expressions
a. Respond to a speaker's cues appropriately
    b. Respond appropriately to clarify and understand
b. Ask appropriate questions
b. Ask appropriate questions
b. Ask appropriate questions
b. Ask appropriate questions
b. Ask appropriate questions
b. Gather information from listening to a speaker
b. Identify regional and social language differences
      c. Respond appropriately to clarify and understand
c. Respond appropriately to clarify and understand
c. Contribute relevant comments
c. Contribute relevant comments
c. Contribute relevant comments
c. Use memory techniques for various listening tasks
c. Determine and apply criteria to evaluate oral presentations
          d. Relate prior knowledge
d. Relate prior knowledge
d. Relate prior knowledge
   
              e. Use note-taking to assist listening when appropriate
   
              f. Maintain visual contact with the speaker
   
              g. Maintain focus by identifying and managing barriers to listening
   
2. Comprehend and analyze what is heard
2. Comprehend and analyze what is heard
2. Comprehend and analyze what is heard
2. Comprehend and analyze what is heard
2. Comprehend and analyze what is heard
2. Comprehend and analyze what is heard
2. Comprehend and analyze what is heard
2. Apply comprehension and literary analysis strategies and skills for a variety of listening purposes and settings
2. Apply comprehension and literary analysis strategies and skills for a variety of listening purposes and settings
2. Demonstrate comprehension and literary analysis strategies and skills for a variety of listening purposes and settings
a. Determine a speaker's general purpose
a. Determine a speaker's general purpose
a. Determine a speaker's general purpose
a. Determine whether a speaker's general purpose is to inform, to persuade, or to entertain
a. Determine whether a speaker's general purpose is to inform, to persuade, or to entertain
a. Determine speaker's purpose
a. Determine speaker's purpose
a. Elaborate on the information and ideas presented
a. Ask relevant questions concerning the speaker's content, delivery, and purpose
a. Evaluate the effectiveness of the elements of the speech or performance or presentation
b. Identify rhythms and patterns of language, including rhyme and repetition
b. Identify rhythms and patterns of language, including rhyme and repetition
b. Identify rhythms and patterns of language, including rhyme and repetition
b. Identify rhythms and patterns of language, including alliteration, onomatopoeia, rhyme, and repetition
b. Identify rhythms and patterns of language, including alliteration, onomatopoeia, rhyme, and repetition
b. Identify how the language of the presentation contributes to effect and meaning
b. Identify how the language of the presentation contributes to effect and meaning
b. Make inferences or draw conclusions based on the presentation
b. Determine a speaker's purpose and viewpoint
b. Interpret the speech or performance or presentation
c. Demonstrate an understanding of what is heard by retelling and relating prior knowledge
c. Demonstrate an understanding of what is heard by retelling and relating prior knowledge
c. Demonstrate an understanding of what is heard by retelling, asking questions, and relating prior knowledge
c. Demonstrate an understanding of what is heard by retelling, asking questions, relating prior knowledge, and summarizing
c. Demonstrate an understanding of what is heard by retelling, asking questions, relating prior knowledge, and summarizing
c. Demonstrate an understanding of what is heard by retelling, asking questions, relating prior knowledge, and summarizing
c. Elaborate on the information and ideas presented
c. Determine speaker's attitude through verbal and non-verbal cues such as tone of voice, inflections, body language, facial expressions
c. Interpret the speech or performance or presentation
c. Analyze a speaker's purpose and viewpoint
d. Follow a set of two- or three-step directions
d. Follow a set of two- or three-step directions
d. Follow a set of multi-step directions
d. Follow a set of multi-step directions
d. Follow a set of multi-step directions
d. Follow a set of multi-step directions
d. Draw conclusions based on the information presented
d. Explain how the effects of language contribute to meaning
d. Make inferences or draw conclusions based on the presentation
d. Identify and evaluate a speaker's stylistic devices such as clear organization, clear viewpoint, use of support, language appropriate to audience, topic appropriate to audience
e. Listen carefully to expand and enrich vocabulary
e. Listen carefully to expand and enrich vocabulary
e. Listen carefully to expand and enrich vocabulary
e. Listen carefully to expand and enrich vocabulary
e. Listen carefully to expand and enrich vocabulary
e. Listen carefully to expand and enrich vocabulary
e. Determine speaker's attitude through verbal and non-verbal cues such as tone of voice, inflections, and facial expressions
e. Provide constructive feedback to speakers concerning the delivery as well as its overall impact upon the listeners
e. Provide constructive feedback to speakers concerning the coherence and logic of a speech's content and delivery as well as its overall impact upon the listeners
e. Evaluate a speaker's credibility such as bias, hidden agendas, use of research/information from reliable sources
    f. Make judgments based on information from the speaker
f. Make judgments based on information from the speaker
f. Make judgments based on information from the speaker
f. Make judgments based on information from the speaker
      f. Explain and support a personal response to an oral presentation
 

Indicators/objectives that include assessment limits are assessed on MSA *New Standards identifies the need for students to process 1 million words per year to maintain academic progress.

 

MSDE has developed a toolkit for these standards which can be found online at: http://mdk12.org/instruction/curriculum/reading/vsc_toolkit.html.

 

11/15/07