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ELA: Grade 12 - READING


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Standard 1: Students will read, write, listen, and speak for information and understanding.
    12.1.R.1

Locate and use school, public, academic, and special library resources for information and research

  • use primary and secondary sources, such as dictionaries and abstracts
  • set purpose for reading by asking questions about what they need to know for their research
    •     12.1.R.2

    Check consistency of hypothesis with given information and assumption

        12.1.R.3

    Analyze and synthesize information from different sources by making connections and showing relationships to other texts, ideas, subjects, and the world at large

  • employ a range of post-reading practices to think about new learning and to plan future learning
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    Standard 2: Students will read, write, listen, and speak for literary response and expression.
        12.2.R.1

    Recognize and analyze the relevance of literature to contemporary and/or personal events and situations from short stories, novels, plays, film and video productions, poems, and essays

  • read and discuss literary criticism
  • engage in a variety of collaborative conversations, such as peer-led discussions, paired reading and responding, and cooperative group discussions, to make applications of the ideas in the text to other situations, extending the ideas to broaden perspectives
    •     12.2.R.2

    Read, view, and respond independently to literary works that represent a range of social, historical, and cultural perspectives

        12.2.R.3

    Compare a film, video, or stage version of a literary work with the written version

        12.2.R.4

    Read literary texts aloud to convey an interpretation of the work

        12.2.R.5

    Read and interpret literary texts from a range of authors, genres, and subjects, including literary criticism

        12.2.R.6

    Interpret multiple levels of meaning and subtleties in text

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    Standard 3: Students will read, write, listen, and speak for critical analysis and evaluation.
        12.3.R.1

    Analyze and evaluate nonfiction texts, including professional journals, technical manuals, and position papers, to determine the writer’s perspectives, purposes, and intended audience

  • identify text structure, using supports such as graphic organizers
  • preview a text (e.g., in order to build a schema), noticing structural markers, such as headings and subheadings
  • focus on key word/phrases that signal that the text is heading in a particular direction
  • identify the particular kinds of language used in particular texts
    •     12.3.R.2

    Analyze and evaluate poetry in order to recognize the use and effect of

  • sensory imagery
  • figurative language
  • verse form
    •     12.3.R.3

    Engage in oral reading activities, such as choral readings, and a variety of written responses, such as double entry journals, to identify and distinguish examples of verse form

        12.3.R.4

    Form opinions and make judgments about literary works by analyzing and evaluating texts from more than one critical perspective, such as a social perspective

        12.3.R.5

    Select, reject, and reconcile ideas and information in light of beliefs

        12.3.R.6

    Make judgments about the quality of literary texts and performances by applying personal and academic criteria, such as that found in literary criticism

        12.3.R.7

    Analyze and evaluate the intellectual and/or emotional impact of specific texts on the reader

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    Standard 4: Students will read, write, listen, and speak for social interaction.
        12.4.R.1

    Share reading experiences with a peer or adult; for example, read together silently or aloud, and discuss reactions to texts

        12.4.R.2

    Consider the age, gender, social position, and cultural traditions of the writer

        12.4.R.3

    Understand and anticipate the author’s use of tone, diction, and language appropriate to social communication, in a variety of texts and conventions

        12.4.R.4

    Recognize the types of language (e.g., informal vocabulary, culture-specific terminology, jargon, colloquialisms, and email conventions) that are appropriate to social communication

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    Literacy Competencies
        12.LC.R.0

    Reading
    A literacy competency strand for grades 9-12 Reading is under development and will be posted when available.

     
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