General Outcomes

Students will listen, speak, read, write, view, and represent to explore thoughts, ideas, feelings, and experiences.

• Express ideas and develop understanding
• Experiment with language and forms
• Express preferences
• Set goals

• Consider others’ ideas
• Combine ideas
• Extend understanding

Students will listen, speak, read, write, view, and represent to comprehend and respond personally and critically to oral, print, and other media texts.

• Use prior knowledge
• Use comprehension strategies
• Use textual cues
• Use phonics and structural analysis
• Use references

• Understand forms and genres
• Understand techniques and elements
• Experiment with language

• Experience various texts
• Construct meaning from texts
• Appreciate the artistry of texts

• Generate ideas
• Elaborate on the expression of ideas
• Structure texts

Students will listen, speak, read, write, view, and represent to manage ideas and information.

• Focus attention
• Determine information needs
• Plan to gather information

• Organize information, record (make notes), evaluate information

• Use a variety of sources
• Access information
• Evaluate sources

• Share ideas and information
• Review research process

Students will listen, speak, read, write, view, and represent to enhance the clarity and artistry of communication

• Appraise own and others’ work
• Revise and edit
• Enhance legibility
• Expand knowledge of language
• Enhance artistry

• Attend to grammar and usage
• Attend to spelling, capitalization, and punctuation

• Present information
• Enhance presentation
• Use effective oral and visual communication
• Demonstrate attentive listening and viewing

Students will listen, speak, read, write, view, and represent to respect, support, and collaborate with others.

• Appreciate diversity
• Relate texts to culture
• Celebrate accomplishments and events
• Use language to show respect