Language Conventions, applicable and effe ctive use, and vocabulary

Language

Conventions, applicable and effective use, and vocabulary

The Language standards include the essential “rules” of written and spoken English. The Standard is

presented as a matter of skills and abilities. The vocabulary focuses on understanding words and

phrases, their relationships, and the acquisition of new vocabulary, particularly general academic words and phrases.

Homework
Reading
Text involves and the growth of comprehension

The Reading standard places equal importance on the complexity of what students read and the skill

with which they read. This standard defines a grade-by-grade level of text complexity that rises from

beginning reading to the college and career readiness high school level. Whatever they are reading,

students must also demonstrate a gradually growing ability to understand more from and make fuller

use of text, including making an increasing number of connections among ideas and between texts,

considering a broader range of textual evidence, and becoming more perceptive to contradictions,

ambiguities, and poor reasoning in texts.
Speaking
 Adaptable communication and partnership collaboration The Speaking Standard includes but not limited to skills necessary for formal presentations, the Speaking require students to develop a range of broadly useful oral communication and interpersonal skills. Students must learn to work together, express and listen carefully to ideas, integrate information from oral, visual, quantitative, and media sources to evaluate what they hear, use and display strategically to help achieve communicative purposes, and adapt speech to context and task.
Listening
Building on others’ ideas for knowledge The Listening Standard includes skills for

present information, findings, and supporting evidence clearly,concisely, and logically such that listeners can follow the line of reasoning and the organization, development, substance, and style that are appropriate to purpose, audience, and task.