Standards in italics provide essential classroom learning experiences which support student performance on state assessment but which will not be tested directly. Students use language processes and strategies for continuous learning. Students use personal experience, the printed word, and information gained from observation as a basis for constructing meaning. Students use language to clarify thought. Students synthesize information from a variety of sources.
Descriptors a. Listen and respond appropriately to oral information.
Use oral and written language to acquire new information and to reflect on and clarify one's own learning. Apply language skills to solve real-world problems individually and with others. Select, access, and use information from a variety of print and non-print sources across the curriculum. Students use language in a variety of forms. Combine the use of appropriate strategies and cue systems with an understanding of conventions to identify words and construct meaning from print.