State Curriculum - Reading

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Standard 7.0 Speaking: Student will communicate effectively in a variety of situations with different audiences, purposes, and formats.	Standard 7.0 Speaking: Student will communicate effectively in a variety of situations with different audiences, purposes, and formats.	Standard 7.0 Speaking: Student will communicate effectively in a variety of situations with different audiences, purposes, and formats.
A. Speaking	A. Speaking	A. Speaking
1. Use organization and delivery strategies at an appropriate level	1. Use organization and delivery strategies at an appropriate level	1. Demonstrate appropriate organizational strategies and delivery techniques to plan for a variety of oral presentation purposes
a. Demonstrate appropriate volume, articulation, enunciation, intonation, pacing, timing, and stress	a. Demonstrate appropriate volume, articulation, enunciation, intonation, pacing, timing, and stress	a. Identify the purpose, audience, and setting for a presentation
b. Demonstrate appropriate timing Fluency Pacing Rate	b. Demonstrate appropriate timing Fluency Pacing Rate	b. Identify the needs and perspectives of the audience
c. Use appropriate non-verbal techniques to enhance communications Posture Eye contact Facial expressions Gestures	c. Use appropriate non-verbal techniques to enhance communications Posture Eye contact Facial expressions Gestures	c. Select and plan for appropriate use of visual aids
		d. Select the topic of an oral presentation
		e. Gather/construct adequate support
		f. Identify and use a variety of organization structures such as narrative, cause and effect, chronological order, description, main idea and detail, problem/solution, question/answer, comparison and contrast
2. Make oral presentations	2. Make oral presentations
a. Speak in a variety of situations to inform and/or relate experiences, including retelling stories	a. Speak in a variety of situations to inform and/or relate experiences, including retelling stories
b. State a position and support it with reasons	b. State a position and support it with reasons
c. Participate in dramatic presentations	c. Participate in dramatic presentations
d. Plan and deliver effective oral presentations	d. Plan and deliver effective oral presentations
e. Use props when appropriate	e. Use props when appropriate

	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