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English/Language Arts Standards

A: Speak and Write

B: Read, Listen and View

C: Complete Independent and Cooperative Projects

D: Present and Explain Positions

E: Understand and Respect Others' Perspectives

Standard B: Read, Listen and View

A student should be a competent and thoughtful reader, listener, and viewer of literature, technical materials, and a variety of other information.


Rationale: Alaska students must be capable readers and active listeners to take in and evaluate the information and ideas that shape their daily lives. Across all subjects in schools, the ability to read and listen, to write and speak, is paramount. Students must be active users of media centers and the many resources technology has made available. Students must also become critical viewers of all media. Applying what they view, read, and hear to their own circumstances can enrich their lives, give them models to emulate, and create visions for what their future can become.

A student who meets this standard should be able to:

  1. comprehend meaning from written text and oral and visual information by applying a variety of reading, listening, and viewing strategies; these strategies include phonic, context, and vocabulary cues in reading, critical viewing; and active listening;
  2. reflect on, analyze, and evaluate a variety of oral, written, and visual information and experiences including discussions, lectures, art, movies, television, technical materials, and literature; and
  3. relate what the student views, reads, and hears to practical purposes in the student's life, to the world outside, and to other texts and experiences.