English Language Arts 20-2

Forming tentative understandings

I can generate and test strategies to form tentative understandings I can revise.

Experimenting with language, image and structure

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

Considering new perspectives

I can select strategies to extend my understanding of new perspectives, monitor their effectiveness, and modify them.

Expressing preferences and expanding interests

I can analyze what shaped my preferences 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 employ strategies to grow.

Discerning and analyzing context

I can paraphrase key messages and describe a text creator's purpose and target 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 a variety of text forms and relate form to purpose and content.

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, monitor and refine criteria to evaluate a text's effectiveness.

Appreciating effectiveness and artistry

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

Focusing purpose and form

I can select and monitor strategies to scope 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 describe my purpose and target audience and select 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 an engaging topic.

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 review the controlling idea of a text for clarity and focus and modify it as needed.

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.