2.8.2 LANGUAGE
Reading
Word Analysis, Fluency, and Systematic Vocabulary Development
Use word meanings within the appropriate context and show ability to verify those meanings by definition, restatement, example, comparison, or contrast.
2.8.3 LANGUAGE
Reading Comprehension (Focus on Informational Materials)
Compare and contrast the features and elements of consumer materials to gain meaning from documents (e.g., warranties, contracts, product information, instruction manuals).
Use information from a variety of consumer, workplace, and public documents to explain a situation or decision and to solve a problem.
2.8.5 LANGUAGE
Writing Strategies
Create compositions that establish a controlling impression, have a coherent thesis, and end with a clear and well-supported conclusion.
Establish coherence within and among paragraphs through effective transitions, parallel structures, and similar writing techniques.
Support theses or conclusions with analogies, paraphrases, quotations, opinions from authorities, comparisons, and similar devices.
Plan and conduct multiple-step information searches by using computer networks and modems.
Achieve an effective balance between researched information and original ideas.
Revise writing for word choice; appropriate organization; consistent point of view; and transitions between paragraphs, passages, and ideas.
2.8.6 LANGUAGE
Written and oral language conventions
Writing Applications (Genres and Their Characteristics)
a. Relate a clear, coherent incident, event, or situation by using well-chosen details.
b. Reveal the significance of, or the writer's attitude about, the subject.
c. Employ narrative and descriptive strategies (e.g., relevant dialogue, specific action, physical description, background description, comparison or contrast of characters).
Write responses to literature:
Exhibit careful reading and insight in their interpretations.
b. Connect the student's own responses to the writer's techniques and to specific textual references.
c. Draw supported inferences about the effects of a literary work on its audience.
d. Support judgments through references to the text, other works, other authors, or to personal knowledge.
Write research reports:
a. Define a thesis.
b. Record important ideas, concepts, and direct quotations from significant information sources and paraphrase and summarize all perspectives on the topic, as appropriate.
c. Use a variety of primary and secondary sources and distinguish the nature and value of each.
d. Organize and display information on charts, maps, and graphs.
Write persuasive compositions:
a. Include a well-defined thesis (i.e., one that makes a clear and knowledgeable judgment).
b. Present detailed evidence, examples, and reasoning to support arguments, differentiating between facts and opinion.
c. Provide details, reasons, and examples, arranging them effectively by anticipating and answering reader concerns and counterarguments.
Write documents related to career development, including simple business letters and job applications:
a. Present information purposefully and succinctly and meet the needs of the intended audience
b. Follow the conventional format for the type of document (e.g., letter of inquiry, memorandum).
Write technical documents:
a. Identify the sequence of activities needed to design a system, operate a tool, or explain the bylaws of an organization.
b. Include all the factors and variables that need to be considered.
c. Use formatting techniques (e.g., headings, differing fonts) to aid comprehension.
