English Language Arts 10-2

Forming tentative understandings

I can use strategies like questioning to form tentative understandings I can still revise.

Experimenting with language, image and structure

I can experiment with language, image and structure to create effects for a purpose and audience.

Considering new perspectives

I can describe my response to a new perspective and judge whether it helps or blocks understanding.

Expressing preferences and expanding interests

I can reflect on my text preferences, identify what shaped them, and choose strategies to expand my interests.

Setting personal goals for language growth

I can appraise my strengths and weaknesses as a language user and pick strategies to grow.

Discerning context

I can identify a text's kind, purpose and audience.

Understanding and interpreting content

I can use comprehension strategies to understand literature and other texts.

Engaging prior knowledge

I can activate what I already know to help me understand a new text.

Using reference strategies

I can use reference strategies and technologies to aid understanding.

Relating form to purpose

I can identify common text forms and their purposes, including communications forms.

Devices that create clarity and emphasis

I can identify rhetorical devices and techniques that create clarity, coherence and emphasis.

Connecting self, text, culture and milieu

I can connect a text to my own and others' perspectives, and respond both personally and analytically.

Evaluating texts with criteria

I can develop and apply criteria to evaluate whether a text is effective.

Appreciating effectiveness and artistry

I can recognize that texts can be effective and artistic and use appropriate terminology to discuss them.

Focusing purpose and form

I can determine the depth and breadth of an inquiry and identify its purpose, audience and form.

Planning and identifying sources

I can develop an inquiry plan and identify my information needs and sources.

Selecting, recording and organizing information

I can select, record and organize information relevant to my purpose.

Evaluating sources and detecting bias

I can evaluate sources for credibility, quality and bias.

Forming generalizations and conclusions

I can form generalizations and draw conclusions consistent with my findings.

Reviewing the inquiry process and findings

I can review my inquiry process and findings and identify how to improve next time.

Assessing the text-creation context

I can identify my purpose and target audience and pick strategies to reach them before I draft.

Choosing form, structure and medium

I can select a text form appropriate to my purpose and consistent with my content.

Developing content

I can develop meaningful content by crafting a topic that is personally engaging.

Producing and presenting the text

I can meet the production, publication and presentation requirements that fit my purpose and audience.

Enhancing thought, support and detail

I can identify the controlling idea of a text in progress and review its accuracy and specificity.

Enhancing organization

I can review and revise a draft's structure — beginning, components, closing and transitions — so the parts hold together.

Addressing matters of stylistic choice

I can choose effective words and vary my sentence structures on purpose, and describe the effects they create.

Editing for correctness

I can use tools and conventions to edit a text for correctness.