Standards Addressed in this Project

 English Language Arts

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

Student Outcomes

Students will:

• Independently collect, organize, and interpret data, facts, and ideas from unfamiliar, information texts
• Locate specific examples and details to support a response
• Use at least two sources of information in writing a report
• Use graphic organizers to record significant details from informational texts
• Use reference materials and media resources to acquire information
• Compare and contrast information on one topic from two different sources
• Use prewriting strategies to plan for writing
• Understand and use a variety of organizational forms to categorize ideas such as compare/contrast, cause/effect, and time/order
• Take notes to record data, facts, and ideas by practicing paragraphs and jot notes with teacher support
• Use at least two sources of information in writing a report
• State main idea and support it with facts and details
• Support interpretations and explanations with evidence from text
• Listen in order to:
  -acquire information and/or understand procedures
  -identify essential details
  -identify main ideas and supporting details
  -collect information/take notes with assistance

Standard 2: : Students will read, write, listen and speak for literary response and expression.

Student Outcomes

Students will:

• Make predictions and draw conclusions about events and characters
• Use graphic organizers to record significant details about characters and events in stories
• Use specific evidence from stories to identify themes; describe characters, their actions and motivations; and relate sequence of events
• Produce clear, well-organized responses to stories read or listened to, supporting the understanding of themes, characters, and events with details from story paragraphs
• Identify title, author, and illustrator, describe literary elements, describe themes, and compare and contrast elements of text
• Uses resources such as personal experiences and themes from other texts to stimulate own writing
• Use a computer to create and/or respond to imaginative texts
• Listen in order to identify elements of character, plot, and setting to understand author's message or intent
• Use note taking and webbing strategies to organize information and ideas recalled from stories read aloud

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

Student Outcomes

Students will:

• Evaluate the content by identifying whether events, actions, characters, and/or settings are realistic
• Use the opinions, reactions, and comments of others, to help evaluate personal interpretation of ideas, information, and experience
• Organize ideas and information in prewriting using tools such as semantic webs and concept maps
• Provide supporting details from the text for their main ideas, theme or opinion and use relevant examples, reasons, and explanations
• Express opinions and make judgments that demonstrate a personal point of view
• Analyze and evaluate the author's use of setting, plot, characters, rhyme, rhythm, and language in written and visual text
• Use effective vocabulary in persuasive and expository writing
• Use details from stories or informational texts to explain, or show relationships between information and events
• Use ideas from two or more sources of information to generalize about causes, effects, or other relationships
• Listen in order to recognize the perspectives of others

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

Student Outcomes

Students will:

• Share reading experiences to build relationships with peers or adults
• Recognize the types of language appropriate to social communication
• Share the process of writing for social communication with peers and adults
• Listen respectfully and responsively
• Attend to a listening activity for an extended period of time
• Avoid interrupting
• Respond appropriately to what is heard

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Lakeland Technology Benchmarks for Students

Standard 1: The Student is an Information Navigator

Outcomes

The student will:

• Use online and electronic resources to communicate, collaborate, and retrieve information
• Use the Internet and other electronic resources for research
• Use electronics to communicate and collaborate with others

Standard 3: The student is a builder of knowledge using technology, media and telecommunications.

Outcomes

The student will:

• Use a variety of input and output devices such as keyboards, scanners, cameras, microphones, printers, projectors, CD-ROMs
• Use word processing applications
• Use draw and paint applications
• Integrate two or more applications

Standard 4: The student is an effective communicator through a variety of appropriate technologies/media.

Outcomes

The student will:

• Create multimedia and/or online projects
• Present multimedia and/or online projects to audiences inside and outside the classroom
• Print, post, publish and/or distribute technology products
  

Standard 7: The student is a responsible citizen, worker, learner, community member and family member in a technological age.

Outcomes

The student will:

• Demonstrate appropriate behavior for technology use and show respect for technology equipment
• Apply and advocate the Lakeland School District Acceptable Use Policy
  

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