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. 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. 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. Ask appropriate questions
b. Gather information from listening to a speaker
b. Identify regional and social language differences
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
   
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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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