| This
information has been taken directly from the Accelerate
U - Standards and Resource Guides (with approval) from the K-12
Education, NEW YORK STATE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT site. No information
in this document has been changed.
Learning Standards for:
English Language Arts at Three
Levels -Commencement
Standard 1: Students
will read, write, listen, and speak 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 to acquire, interpret, apply,
and transmit information.
| Listening and
Reading |
Speaking and
Writing |
| 1. Listening and
reading to acquire information and understanding involves collecting
data, facts, and ideas; discovering relationships, concepts,
and generalizations; and using knowledge from oral written,
and electronic sources.
Students:
- interpret and analyze complex informational
texts and presentations, including technical manuals, professional
journals, newspaper and broadcast editorials, electronic
networks, political speeches and debates, and primary source
material In their subject area courses
- synthesize information from diverse
sources and identify complexities and discrepancies in the
information
- use a combination of techniques (e.g.,
previewing use of advance organizers, structural cues) to
extract salient information from texts
- make distinctions about the relative
value and significance of specific data, facts, and ideas
- make perceptive and well developed
connections to prior knowledge
- evaluate writing strategies and presentational
features that affect interpretation of the Information.
This is evident, for example, when students:
- incorporate information from several
noted experts to support a thesis in a research paper
- assemble notes for historical and
artistic exhibits
- use an electronic data base and other
graphic presentations to find evidence of trends for a sociological
study
- produce flow charts and diagrams to
show the relationships among information from different
sources
- determine the relative value of different
reference materials for a particular research question.
|
2. Speaking and
writing to acquire and transmit information requires asking
probing and clarifying questions, interpreting information in
one's own words, applying information from one context to another,
and presenting the information and interpretation clearly, concisely,
and comprehensibly.
Students:
- write and present research reports,
feature articles, and thesis/support papers on a variety
of topics related to all school subjects
- present a controlling Idea that conveys
an individual perspective and insight into the topic
- use a wide range of organizational
patterns such as chronological, logical (both deductive
and Inductive), cause and effect, and comparison/contrast
- support Interpretations and decisions
about relative significance of information with explicit
statement, evidence, and appropriate argument
- revise and improve early drafts by
restructuring, correcting errors, and revising for clarity
and effect
- use standard English skillfully, applying
established rules and conventions for presenting Information
and making use of a wide range of grammatical constructions
end vocabulary to achieve an individual style that communicates
effectively.
This is evident, for example, when students:
- demonstrate how to perform an intricate
task, such as how to operate a computer program or conduct
a laboratory experiment
- write an extended research report
on a complex issue or topic that documents sources of information
and is well organized to convey overarching ideas and supporting
evidence and details
- write a report of a scientific inquiry
that observes the conventions of scientific writing, the
rules of evidence, and the correct usage of technical terms
- produce program notes for an art exhibit
or concert with background information on the works and
artists.
|
|
