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Discovery Education: Literature & ELA
Language Arts resources
School2Home: Resources for English Language Arts
Reading
1.0 Word Analysis, Fluency, and Systematic Vocabulary Development
1.1 Analyze idioms, analogies, metaphors, and similes to infer the literal and figurative meanings of phrases.
1.2 Understand the most important points in the history of English language and use common word origins to determine the historical influences on English word meanings.
1.3 Use word meanings within the appropriate context and show ability to verify those meanings by definition, restatement, example, comparison, or contrast.
2.0 Reading Comprehension (Focus on Informational Materials)
2.1 Compare and contrast the features and elements of consumer materials to gain meaning from documents (e.g., warranties, contracts, product information, instruction manuals).
2.2 Analyze text that uses proposition and support patterns.
2.3 Find similarities and differences between texts in the treatment, scope, or organization of ideas.
2.4 Compare the original text to a summary to determine whether the summary accurately captures the main ideas, includes critical details, and conveys the underlying meaning.
2.5 Understand and explain the use of a complex mechanical device by following technical directions.
2.6 Use information from a variety of consumer, workplace, and public documents to explain a situation or decision and to solve a problem.
2.7 Evaluate the unity, coherence, logic, internal consistency, and structural patterns of text.
3.0 Literary Response and Analysis
3.1 Determine and articulate the relationship between the purposes and characteristics of different forms of poetry (e.g., ballad, lyric, couplet, epic, elegy, ode, sonnet).
3.2 Evaluate the structural elements of the plot (e.g., subplots, parallel episodes, climax), the plot's development, and the way in which conflicts are (or are not) addressed and resolved.
3.3 Compare and contrast motivations and reactions of literary characters from different historical eras confronting similar situations or conflicts.
3.4 Analyze the relevance of the setting (e.g., place, time, customs) to the mood, tone, and meaning of the text.
3.5 Identify and analyze recurring themes (e.g., good versus evil) across traditional and contemporary works.
3.6 Identify significant literary devices (e.g., metaphor, symbolism, dialect, irony) that define a writer's style and use those elements to interpret the work.
3.7 Analyze a work of literature, showing how it reflects the heritage, traditions, attitudes, and beliefs of its author. (Biographical approach)
Writing
1.0 Writing Strategies
1.1 Create compositions that establish a controlling impression, have a coherent thesis, and end with a clear and well-supported conclusion.
1.2 Establish coherence within and among paragraphs through effective transitions, parallel structures, and similar writing techniques.
1.3 Support theses or conclusions with analogies, paraphrases, quotations, opinions from authorities, comparisons, and similar devices.
1.4 Plan and conduct multiple-step information searches by using computer networks and modems.
1.5 Achieve an effective balance between researched information and original ideas.
1.6 Revise writing for word choice; appropriate organization; consistent point of view; and transitions between paragraphs, passages, and ideas.
2.0 Writing Applications (Genres and Their Characteristics)
2.1a Write biographies, autobiographies, short stories, or narratives: Relate a clear, coherent incident, event, or situation by using well-chosen details.
2.1b Write biographies, autobiographies, short stories, or narratives: Reveal the significance of, or the writer's attitude about, the subject.
2.1c Write biographies, autobiographies, short stories, or narratives: Employ narrative and descriptive strategies (e.g., relevant dialogue, specific action, physical description, background description, comparison or contrast of characters).
2.2a Write responses to literature: Exhibit careful reading and insight in their interpretations
2.2b Write responses to literature: Connect the student's own responses to the writer's techniques and to specific textual references.
2.2c Write responses to literature: Draw supported inferences about the effects of a literary work on its audience.
2.2d Write responses to literature: Support judgments through references to the text, other works, other authors, or to personal knowledge.
2.3a Write research reports: Define a thesis.
2.3b Write research reports: Record important ideas, concepts, and direct quotations from significant information sources and paraphrase and summarize all perspectives on the topic, as appropriate.
2.3c Write research reports: Use a variety of primary and secondary sources and distinguish the nature and value of each.
2.3d Write research reports: Organize and display information on charts, maps, and graphs.
2.4a Write persuasive compositions: Include a well-defined thesis (i.e., one that makes a clear and knowledgeable judgment).
2.4b Write persuasive compositions: Present detailed evidence, examples, and reasoning to support arguments, differentiating between facts and opinion.
2.4c Write persuasive compositions: Provide details, reasons, and examples, arranging them effectively by anticipating and answering reader concerns and counterarguments.
2.5a Write documents related to career development, including simple business letters and job applications: Present information purposefully and succinctly and meet the needs of the intended audience.
2.5b Write documents related to career development, including simple business letters and job applications: Follow the conventional format for the type of document (e.g., letter of inquiry, memorandum).
2.6a Write technical documents: Identify the sequence of activities needed to design a system, operate a tool, or explain the bylaws of an organization.
2.6b Write technical documents: Include all the factors and variables that need to be considered.
2.6c Write technical documents: Use formatting techniques (e.g., headings, differing fonts) to aid comprehension.
Written & Oral English Language Conventions
1.0 Written and Oral English Language Conventions
1.1 Use correct and varied sentence types and sentence openings to present a lively and effective personal style.
1.2 Identify and use parallelism, including similar grammatical forms, in all written discourse to present items in a series and items juxtaposed for emphasis.
1.3 Use subordination, coordination, apposition, and other devices to indicate clearly the relationship between ideas.
1.4 Edit written manuscripts to ensure that correct grammar is used.
1.5 Use correct punctuation and capitalization.
1.6 Use correct spelling conventions.
Listening and Speaking
1.0 Listening and Speaking Strategies
1.1 Analyze oral interpretations of literature, including language choice and delivery, and the effect of the interpretations on the listener.
1.2 Paraphrase a speaker's purpose and point of view and ask relevant questions concerning the speaker's content, delivery, and purpose
1.3 Organize information to achieve particular purposes by matching the message, vocabulary, voice modulation, expression, and tone to the audience and purpose.
1.4 Prepare a speech outline based upon a chosen pattern of organization, which generally includes an introduction; transitions, previews, and summaries; a logically developed body; and an effective conclusion.
1.4 Prepare a speech outline based upon a chosen pattern of organization, which generally includes an introduction; transitions, previews, and summaries; a logically developed body; and an effective conclusion.
1.5 Use precise language, action verbs, sensory details, appropriate and colorful modifiers, and the active rather than the passive voice in ways that enliven oral presentations.
1.6 Use appropriate grammar, word choice, enunciation, and pace during formal presentations
1.7a Use audience feedback (e.g., verbal and nonverbal cues): Reconsider and modify the organizational structure or plan.
1.7b Use audience feedback (e.g., verbal and nonverbal cues): Rearrange words and sentences to clarify the meaning.
1.8 Evaluate the credibility of a speaker (e.g., hidden agendas, slanted or biased material).
1.9 Interpret and evaluate the various ways in which visual image makers (e.g., graphic artists, illustrators, news photographers) communicate information and affect impressions and opinions.
2.0 Speaking Applications (Genres and Their Characteristics)
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1.6 Use appropriate grammar, word choice, enunciation, and pace during formal presentations
1.7a Use audience feedback (e.g., verbal and nonverbal cues): Reconsider and modify the organizational structure or plan.
1.7b Use audience feedback (e.g., verbal and nonverbal cues): Rearrange words and sentences to clarify the meaning.
1.8 Evaluate the credibility of a speaker (e.g., hidden agendas, slanted or biased material).
1.9 Interpret and evaluate the various ways in which visual image makers (e.g., graphic artists, illustrators, news photographers) communicate information and affect impressions and opinions.
2.0 Speaking Applications (Genres and Their Characteristics)
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