Teachers

3rd Grade

Reading

• Students will read, write, listen, and speak for critical analysis and evaluation. Students will evaluate the content by identifying

  • The author's purpose
  • Important and unimportant details
  • Whether events, actions, characters, and/or settings are realistic
  • Statements of fact and opinion
  • Compare and contrast characters

• Students will read, write, listen, and speak for critical analysis and evaluation

  • Form a personal opinion about the quality of texts read aloud on the basis of criteria such as characters, plot, and setting
  • Recognize the perspective of others (Standard 3):

4th Grade

Reading

• Students will read, write listen and speak for critical analysis and evaluation. Students will evaluate the content by identifying the author's purpose

  • Whether events, actions, characters, and/or settings are realistic
  • Important and unimportant details
  • Statements of fact, opinion and exaggeration
  • Recurring themes across works in print and media

• Students will read, write, listen, and speak for critical analysis and evaluations

• Distinguish between information in media texts, such as live news coverage, and in fictional material, such as dramatic productions

• Recognize the perspective of others

• Distinguish between fact, opinion, and exaggeration

• Form and opinion on a subject on the basis of information, ideas, and themes (Standard 3)

5th Grade

Reading

• Students will read, write, listen, and speak for critical analysis and evaluation

• Evaluate information, ideas, opinion, and themes in texts by identifying

  • A central idea and supporting details
  • Details that are primary and those that are less important
  • Statements of fact, opinion and exaggeration
  • Missing for unclear information

• Use established criteria to analyze the quality of information in text

• Identify different perspectives, such as social, cultural, ethnic, and historical

• Form an opinion on a subject on the basis of information, ideas, and themes expressed in presentations

• Recognize and use the perspective of others to analyze presentations

• Recognize persuasive presentations and identify the techniques used to accomplish that purpose, with assistance

• Evaluate the quality of the speaker's presentation style by using criteria such as volume, tone of voice, and rate (Standard 3)

6th Grade

Reading

• Students will read, write, listen, and speak for critical analysis and evaluation

• Form an opinion or judgment about the validity and accuracy of information, ideas, opinions, issues, themes and experiences, with assistance

• Recognize that the criteria used to analyze and evaluate presentations may be influenced by one's point of view and purpose for listening

• Recognize that the criteria used to analyze and evaluate presentations may be influenced by one's point of view and purpose for listening

• Recognize and use the perspectives of others, including teachers and peers, to analyze and evaluate presentations

• Recognize persuasive presentations and identify the techniques (e.g. choice of language and use of sound effects ) used to accomplish that purpose

• Recognize persuasive techniques, such as emotion and ethical appeals in presentations, with assistance

• Consider the experience and qualifications of speakers in analyzing and evaluating presentations, with assistance

• Identify missing or unclear information, with assistance (Standard 3)

7th Grade

Reading

• Students will read, write, listen and speak for critical analysis and evaluation

• Form and opinion or judgment about the validity and accuracy of information, ideas, opinions, themes and experiences

• Recognize multiple levels of meaning

• Use personal experiences and knowledge and the opinions of speakers in school and community settings, to make judgments from a variety of perspectives

• Recognize persuasive techniques, such as emotional and ethical appeals, in presentations

• Consider the experience and qualifications of speakers when analyzing and evaluating presentations, with assistance

• Identify missing or unclear information

• Evaluate the organization of presentations

• Evaluate the quality of the speaker's presentations style by using criteria such as voice quality and enunciation

• Evaluate the validity and accuracy of information, ideas, themes, opinion, and experiences in text to:

  • Identify conflicting information- consider the background and qualifications of the writer
  • Evaluate examples, details, or reasons used to support ideas
  • Identify propaganda, with assistance
  • Identify techniques used to persuade, such as emotional and ethical appeals, with assistance
  • Identify differing points of view in texts and presentations
  • Identify cultural and ethnic values and their impact on content
  • Identify multiple levels of meaning

• Judge a text by using evaluative criteria from a variety of perspectives, such as literary and person, with assistance

• Recognize the effect of one's own point of view in evaluating ideas, information, opinions, and issues (Standard 3)