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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 -Intermediate
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 Information
from textbooks and nonfiction books for young adults, as
well as reference materials, audio and media presentations,
oral interviews, graphs, charts, diagrams, and electronic
data bases intended for a general audience
- compare and synthesize information
from different sources
- use a wide variety of strategies for
selecting organizing, and categorizing information
- distinguish between relevant and irrelevant
information and between fact and opinion
- relate new Information to prior knowledge
and experience
- understand and use the text features
that make information accessible and usable, such as format,
- sequence, level of diction, and relevance
of details.
This is evident, for example, when students:
- produce a summary of the information
about a famous person found in a biography, encyclopedia,
and textbook
- use facts and date from news articles
and television reports in
- an oral report on a current event
- compile a bibliography of sources
that are used in a research project
- take notes that record the main ideas
and most significant supporting details of a lecture or
speech.
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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:
- produce oral and written reports on
topics related to all school subjects
- establish an authoritative stance
on the subject and provide reference to establish the validity
and verifiability of the information presented
- organize information according to
an identifiable structure, such as compare/contrast or general
to specific
- develop information with appropriate
supporting material, such as facts, details, illustrative
examples or antidotes, and exclude extraneous material
- use the process of pro-writing drafting,
revising and proofreading ( the "writing process") to produce
well-
- constructed informational texts
- use standard English for formal presentation
of information, selecting appropriate grammatical constructions
and vocabulary, using a variety of sentence structures,
and observing the rules of punctuation, capitalization,
and spelling.
This is evident, for example when students:
- write an essay for science class that
contains information from interviews, data bases, magazines,
and science texts
- participate in a panel discussion
on population trends in the United States in recent years,
using graphics, and citing the source of the data
- use technical terms correctly in subject
area reports
- survey student views on a school issue
and report findings to the class
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