Grades 9-10

Interacting in Meaningful Ways

Part II: Learning About How English Works

Part III: Using Foundational Literacy Skills

Collaborative

Interpretive

Productive

Structuring Cohesive Texts

Expanding and Enriching Ideas

Connecting and Condensing Ideas

Exchanging information and ideas with others through oral collaborative discussions on a range of social and academic topics

Interacting with others in written English in various communictive forms (print, communicative technology, and multimedia)

Offering and justifying opinions, negotiating with and persuading others in communicative exchanges

Adapting Language choices to various contexts (based on task, purpose, audience, and text type)

Listening actively to spoken English in a range of social and academic contexts

Reading closely literary and informational texts and viewing multimedia to determine how meaning is conveyed explicitly and implicitly through language

Evaluating how well writers and speakers use language to support ideas and arguments with details or evidence depending on modality, text type, purpose, audiene, topic, and content area

Analyzing how writers and speakers use vocabulary and other language resources for specific purposes (to explain, persuade, entertain, etc.) depending on modality, text type, purpose, audience, topic, and content area

Expressing information and ideas in formal oral presentations on academic topics

Writing literary and informational texts to present describe, and explain ideas and information, using appropriate technology

Justifying own arguments and evaluating others' arguments in writing

Selecting and Applying varied and precise vocabulary and other language resources to effectively convey ideas

Understanding Text Structure

Understanding Cohesion

Using verbs and verb phrases

Using nouns and noun phrases

Modifying to add details

Connecting ideas

Condensing ideas