Standard 1: Listening & Reading

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.

Key Idea:

Listening & 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.

Elementary

• gather and interpret information from children’s reference books, magazines, textbooks, electronic bulletin boards, audio and media presentations, oral interviews, and from such sources as charts, graphs, maps, and diagrams
• select information appropriate to the purpose of their investigation and relate ideas from one text to another
• select and use strategies that have been taught for notetaking, organizing, and categorizing information
• ask specific questions to clarify and extend meaning
• make appropriate and effective use of strategies to construct meaning from print, such as prior knowledge about a subject, structural and context clues, and an understanding of letter-sound relationships to decode difficult words
• support inferences about information and ideas with reference to text features, such as vocabulary and organizational patterns

Intermediate

• 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

Commencement

• 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

• Standard 1: Speaking and Writing