Students will listen, speak, read, write, view, and represent to explore thoughts, ideas, feelings, and experiences. Exploratory language enables students to organize and give meaning to experiences. Students use exploratory language to share thoughts, ideas, and experiences, and to express and acknowledge emotions.
Exploratory language enables students to discover and understand what they think and who they are.
It also helps them reflect on themselves as language learners and language users. In addition, exploratory language helps them establish and maintain relationships. Making meaning of oral, literary, and media texts is fundamental to the English language arts. Through these texts, students experience a variety of situations, people, and cultures, and learn about themselves. Students can respond personally to texts by relating them to their prior knowledge, to their feelings and experiences, and to other texts.