Standards
ELA 3. Students apply a wide range of strategies to comprehend, interpret, evaluate, and appreciate texts. They draw on their prior experience, their interactions with other readers and writers, their knowledge of word meaning and of other texts, their word identification strategies, and their understanding of textual features (e.g., sound-letter correspondence, sentence structure, context, graphics).
ELA 4. Students adjust their use of spoken, written, and visual language (e.g., conventions, style, vocabulary) to communicate effectively with a variety of audiences and for different purposes.
ElA 12. Students use spoken, written, and visual language to accomplish their own purposes (e.g., for learning, enjoyment, persuasion, and the exchange of information).
CES 4. All students will make decisions and slove problems by specifying goals, identifying resources and constraints, generating alternatives, considering impacts, choosing appropriate alternatives, implemention plans of action, and evaluating results.
CES 7 All students will work cooperatively with people of diverse backgrounds and abilities, identify with the groups' goals and values, learn to exercise leadership, teach others new killls, serve cliamts or customers, and will contrubute to a group process with ideas, suggestioins, and efforts.
CES 8. All students will communicate ideas to support a position and negotiate to resolve divergent interests.