Read

Students will be able to apply strategies to read, comprehend, analyze and respond critically to a variety of different academic text types as well as:

• Locate specific information through skimming and scanning
• Create an outline to organize text
• Preview text through a variety of strategies
• Use prior knowledge to predict content
• Distinguish fact from opinion to be a critical reader
• Sequence ideas to show text structure

Write

Students will be able to write in a variety of styles and apply different writing strategies in order to:

• Write paragraphs of different genres
• Analyze features of good and poor summaries
• Write summaries
• Write paragraphs with reasons and examples
• Write introductory, body and conclusion paragraphs

Listen

Students will be able to demonstrate strategies for effective listening to:

• Identify main ideas, reasons, explanations and specific information
• Understand cause and effect
• Recognize a speaker’s attitude
• Predict
• Recognize facts and opinions

Speak

Students will be able to use speaking techniques to participate in meaningful conversation in order to:

• Make notes on presentations or group discussions
• Describe situations using details so a listener can make an inference about an event
• Use reasons to explain personal beliefs
• Answer tag questions using proper grammar and intonation to accurately express what you think
• Use summary or recap techniques to end a presentation
• Ask questions to confirm your understanding of definitions

Read

Students will be able to apply strategies to read, comprehend, analyze and respond critically to a variety of different academic text types, in order to:

• Preview text and what a text is about using a variety of strategies
• Annotate and highlight a text to identify important ideas
• Locate specific information in a text to understand context better
• Understand purpose and types of organization patterns to read more critically
• Respond to a variety of different text types
• Use and compare organization to examine similarities and differences between two subjects
• Recognize a writer’s bias to better evaluate his or her ideas
• Scan longer texts to locate information and gather information from different texts to fulfil a task

Write

Students will be able to write in a variety of styles and apply different writing strategies to:

• Develop a paragraph: topic, supporting and concluding sentences
• Construct an outline
• Write a variety of types of paragraphs
• Writing about charts and graphs
• Use adjectives, sensory language and details to create descriptive language
• Use time words and clauses to express the order of events
• Write an essay with an introduction, body and conclusion
• Identify patterns of organization in various essay types
• Compare two summaries
• Summarize information from various types of essays

Listen

Students will be able to demonstrate strategies for effective listening to:

• Follow main points of extended discussions
• Listen for expression that announces a topic to anticipate what you will hear
• Distinguish stressed and unstressed syllables to better identify words in speech
• Decide which information to take notes on so notetaking is efficient
• Listen to key words to understand who is performing an action
• Recognize the meaning of speed, pitch and tone
• Understand speaker’s bias to put information into perspective

Speak

Students will be able to use speaking techniques to participate in meaningful conversation in order to:

• Ask open-ended and follow up questions to get information and to keep a conversation going
• Express interest during the conversation to encourage the speaker to continue
• Change a topic to move a conversation into a comfortable area
• Make predictions and reach conclusions about familiar topics
• Use various questions to maintain a listener’s interest
• Use direct and indirect quotations to report information from sources
• Discuss reading with group members to analyze an author’s point
• Give individual and small group presentations

Read

Students will be able to apply strategies to read, comprehend, analyze, and respond critically to a variety of different academic text types, in order to:

• Read subheadings to anticipate content of reading
• Read for main ideas and details
• Read and recognize different text types
• Preview text using variety of strategies
• Locate specific information in a text to understand main ideas and context better
• Understand purpose and types of organization patterns to read more critically
• Recognize a writer’s bias to better evaluate his or her ideas
• Understand purpose of quoted speech
• Distinguish fact from opinion
• Identify sources of information, counterarguments, and refutations to better evaluate ideas in text

Write

Students will be able to write in a variety of styles and apply different writing strategies to:

• Develop a paragraph: topic, supporting and concluding sentences
• Construct an outline
• Write a variety of types of paragraphs
• Writing about charts and graphs
• Use adjectives, sensory language and details to create descriptive language
• Use time words and clauses to express the order of events
• Write an essay with an introduction, body and conclusion
• Identify patterns of organization in various essay types
• Compare two summaries
• Summarize information from various types of essays

Write

Students will be able to write in a variety of styles and apply different writing strategies to:

• Develop an essay: topic sentence, supporting sentences and concluding sentence
• Write an analysis paragraph, a cause and effect essay, and a research essay
• Summarizing and paraphrasing longer texts
• Plan and make an outline before writing
• Revise, edit, rewrite essays
• Give feedback to peers and self-assess
• Use adjectives, sensory language, and details to create descriptive language
• Use time word and clauses to express the order of events
• Identify hooks thesis statements and topic sentences
• Identify patterns of organization in various essay types
• Write, compare and summarize essays of various types

Speak

Students will be able to use speaking techniques to participate in meaningful conversation in order to:

• Use repetition and signal words to draw attention to main ideas
• Discuss a reading with members to analyze the author’s points
• Take notes to prepare for presentation or group discussion
• Confirm that you understand what another person has said
• Discuss advantages and disadvantages, causes and effects in group discussions
• Give individual and small-group presentations about a variety of topics
• Stress important words in speech to communicate important information
• Brainstorm ideas and to prepare for presentations
• Ask open-ended and follow-up questions to get information and to keep conversation going
• Express interest during a conversation to encourage the speaker to continue
• Talk about  real and unreal conditions to speculate about choices
• Use questions to maintain listener interest
• Use persuasive language to encourage positive attitudes toward your positions
• Add to a speaker’s comments to become an active conversation partner

Listen

Students will be able to demonstrate strategies for effective listening to:

• Listen for expressions that announce a topic to anticipate what you will hear
• Listen to results of a study in order to understand evidence
• Distinguish stressed and unstressed syllables to better identify word in speech
• Predict content
• Listen to main ideas
• Listen for details
• Identify new and previously known information to focus on important details
• Decide which information to take notes on so note-taking is efficient
• Listen to key words to understand who is performing the action
• Listen for reasons to better understand the view and actions of other
• Make inferences to understand more fully what someone says
• Understand speaker’s bias to put information into perspective
• Listen for contrast to understand relationship of ideas
• Listen to phrases to understand the structure of a listening passage
• Listen for reasons and methods to understand a narrative
• Recognize vocabulary patterns in a listening passage
• Listen for cause and effects to understand relationships among ideas

Speak

Students will be able to use speaking techniques to participate in meaningful conversation in order to:

• Use repetition and signal words to draw attention to main ideas
• Discuss a reading with members to analyze the author’s points
• Take notes to prepare for presentation or group discussion
• Confirm that you understand what another person has said
• Discuss advantages and disadvantages, causes and effects in group discussions
• Give individual and small-group presentations about a variety of topics
• Stress important words in speech to communicate important information
• Brainstorm ideas and to prepare for presentations
• Ask open-ended and follow-up questions to get information and to keep conversation going
• Express interest during a conversation to encourage the speaker to continue
• Talk about  real and unreal conditions to speculate about choices
• Use questions to maintain listener interest
• Use persuasive language to encourage positive attitudes toward your positions
• Add to a speaker’s comments to become an active conversation partner

Read

Students will be able to apply strategies to read, comprehend, analyze and respond critically to academic texts as well as:

• Expend specialized academic vocabulary
• Adapt style and speed of reading to different texts and purposes
• Quickly scan through long and complex texts on topics of interest to locate relevant details
• Understand in detail texts of interest or specialty
• Understand specialized articles outside of interest with help of a dictionary
• Understand lengthy, complex instructions
• Read for main ideas and details
• Distinguish between skimming, scanning, intensive and extensive reading
• Predict and identify purpose and develop critical thinking skills
• Identify the main message through topic sentences

Write

Students will be able to write in a variety of styles and apply different writing strategies to:

• Research and develop different types of academic essays
• Summarize and paraphrase longer texts
• Plan and make outlines
• Revise, edit, and rewrite essays
• Give feedback to peers and self-asses
• Research and report based on surveys, charts, graphs, and tables
• Write, compare, and summarize essays of various types
• Learn the importance of paragraphing in order to help with writing flow
• Vary the structure of writing by using a range of tenses
• Focus on cohesion in writing

Speak

Students will be able to use speaking techniques to participate in meaningful conversation in order to:

• Express opinions while focusing on sentence stress and colloquialisms
• Brainstorm for and against arguments in different contexts
• Formulate arguments in political discussions
• Use advanced collocations naturally
• Discuss uses and forms of media
• Use advanced and academic vocabulary to discuss and debate a range of topics
• Discuss a reading with peers to analyze the author’s points
• Take notes to prepare for presentation or group discussion
• Conduct surveys and announce findings
• Link ideas in order to avoid repetition
• Develop systematic arguments, highlighting significant points and include details where necessary
• Give clear, detailed descriptions on a wide range of subjects
• Reformulate ideas in different ways

Read

Students will be able to apply strategies to read, comprehend, analyze and respond critically to academic texts as well as:

• Understand details of a wide range of lengthy, complex academic texts
• Scan though books and articles to assess relevance
• Read and understand complex texts in which opinions are implied
• Take margin notes on reading
• Analyze and critique the information in academic text
• Connect ideas across different texts
• Quickly locate specific information in a text to understand main ideas and context

Write

Students will be able to write in a variety of styles and apply different writing strategies to:

• Write clear, well-structured texts on complex topics with good grammatical control
• Research and report on a survey
• Research and develop different types of academic essays
• Summarize and paraphrase longer texts
• Plan and make outlines
• Revise, edit, and rewrite essays
• Give feedback to peers and self-asses
• Use unity to be clear, interesting, and persuasive
• Focus on cohesion
• Use contrast information structure to connect sentences logically while developing ideas

Speak

Students will be able to use speaking techniques to participate in meaningful conversation in order to:

• Adopt levels of formality appropriate to the conversation or discussion
• Maintain conversations on abstract and complex topics
• Pinpoint areas of unfamiliar topics for further explanation or clarification
• Spontaneously summarize lengthy texts
• Design and administer surveys and report survey results
• Naturally use micro skills in longer speech
• Use figurative language in group discussions
• Narrate a story with focus on intonation and emphatic stress