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.
A. Listening A. Listening A. Listening
1. Demonstrate active listening strategies
1. Demonstrate active listening strategies
1. Demonstrate active listening strategies
a. Attend to the speaker
a. Attend to the speaker
a. Attend to the speaker
b. Ask appropriate questions
b. Ask appropriate questions
b. Ask appropriate questions
c. Respond appropriately to clarify and understand
c. Respond appropriately to clarify and understand
c. Contribute relevant comments
    d. Relate prior knowledge
2. Comprehend and analyze what is heard
2. Comprehend and analyze what is heard
2. Comprehend and analyze what is heard
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
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
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
d. Follow a set of multi-step directions
d. Follow a set of multi-step directions
d. Follow a set of multi-step directions
e. Listen carefully to expand and enrich vocabulary
e. Listen carefully to expand and enrich vocabulary
e. Listen carefully to expand and enrich vocabulary
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
 

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