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mvsd Language Arts The Idaho State Achievement Standards for Language Arts provides skills for kindergarten through twelfth grade. Grade 8 The Idaho State Achievement Standards for Language Arts provides skills for eighth grade. |
| Genres |
| This unit includes identifying and comparing key characteristics of literary genres, as designated by a work's subject, theme, style, and time period. Some examples of genres are: science fiction, poetry, drama, British literature, and multicultural literature. |
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Author Technique: Style/Response
The learner will be able to recognize how authors use style to elicit a response in readers.
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Author Technique: Analyze/Symbolism
The learner will be able to analyze how authors use symbolism to express meaning.
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Story: Characteristics/Explain
The learner will be able to explain distinguishing characteristics of the short story.
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Narrative: Plot Development/Determine
The learner will be able to determine plot development in narratives.
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Drama: Elements/Describe
The learner will be able to describe defining elements of plays.
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Novel: Characteristics/Describe
The learner will be able to describe the unique characteristics of the novel.
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Point of View: Response/Elicit
The learner will be able to recognize how authors use point of view to elicit a response in readers.
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Essay: Elements/Describe
The learner will be able to describe defining elements of essays.
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| Language Arts Processes |
| Language Arts Processes is an integrated Language Arts unit. It addresses multiple processes: reading, writing, speaking, listening, viewing, and representing. This unit includes language processes used in real-world, career, and other settings as well as traditional school settings. Language Arts Processes also deals with multiple forms of text: written, oral, and visual. |
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Oral/Written/Visual Text: Social
The learner will be able to identify a selection as a reflection of its social, cultural and historical context.
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| Language Expressions |
| This unit focuses on language conventions, structure, usage, and language study. It also addresses parts of speech, figures of speech, syntax, paragraph and sentence structure, word agreement, modifiers, and grammar. |
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Conventions: Clauses/Phrases/Sentences
The learner will be able to identify and use conventions for clauses; for phrases including prepositional phrases and participial phrases; and for appositives, infinitives, and gerunds.
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Conventions: Grammar/Punctuation
The learner will be able to determine the rules and conventions of grammar, punctuation, capitalization, spelling, and legibility.
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Parts of Speech: Identify/Apply
The learner will be able to identify parts of speech, and apply them correctly and appropriately.
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Vocabulary: New
The learner will be able to understand and use new vocabulary: adverb phrase, adjective phrase, pronoun's antecedent.
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| Language Mechanics |
| This unit includes comprehending and applying the rules which govern punctuation and capitalization when writing and editing written works. |
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*Punctuation: Rules/Apply
The learner will be able to apply the rules of punctuation.
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Capitalization: Application of Rules
The learner will be able to apply capitalization rules in his/her written work.
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Quotation Mark: Use
The learner will be able to use quotation marks correctly in quoted material and written dialogue.
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Vocabulary: New
The learner will be able to understand and use new vocabulary: possessive noun.
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| Listening |
| This unit includes identifying and distinguishing between sounds and patterns in sounds, constructing meaning from information delivered verbally, and understanding and responding to verbal information. |
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Response: Expression/Literary
The learner will be able to listen for literary expression.
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Behaviors: Listen Attentively/discuss
The learner will be able to listen attentively to classroom discussions.
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*Evaluating: Verbal/Nonverbal
The learner will be able to evaluate the purpose, content, organization, and delivery of verbal communication and nonverbal cues.
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| Media |
| This unit includes the study of information and entertainment communications. Topics include: advertising, art, journalism, film, and media messages, forms and productions. |
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*Media: Tools/Enhance/Communication
The learner will be able to comprehend the multimedia tools of graphics, pictures, color, motion, and music.
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*Media: Relationships/Ideas/Culture
The learner will be able to assess relationships, ideas, and cultural elements as represented in media.
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Nonprint: Visuals/Create
The learner will be able to use a wide range of resources to produce visuals that communicate through nonprint media.
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Nonprint: Evaluate
The learner will be able to evaluate nonprint media.
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| Reading Operations |
| This unit includes constructing meaning from fiction and non-fiction selections at comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, and judgment levels of understanding. It includes skills which address identifying, discussing, and comparing both concrete and abstract elements of selections (setting, plot, characterization, genre, historical period, theme, tone, moral message, and psychological and political implications). |
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Compare/Contrast: Human/Experience
The learner will be able to read and respond to a wide range of literature to compare and contrast the multiple facets of the human experience.
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Purposes: Variety/Examine/Evaluate
The learner will be able to critically examine and evaluate a variety of traditional, technical, and electronic materials.
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*Relationship: Apply/Anticipate/Text
The learner will be able to apply relationships between text-to-text, text-to-self, and text-to-world to anticipate new text.
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*Construct Meaning: Interactive/Text Cue
The learner will be able to demonstrate interactive reading by identifying and utilizing textual elements to construct meaning.
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*Response: Reconsider/Source
The learner will be able to reconsider a response against multiple grade-level information sources.
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*Tone: Identify
The learner will be able to identify the tone of a given passage.
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American Culture: Disability
The learner will be able to read and respond to culturally diverse American literature representative of different disabilities.
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Fluency: Independent/Increase
The learner will be able to increase fluency to grade-level expectations.
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Mood: Identify
The learner will be able to identify the mood of a reading passage.
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Interpretation: Prior Knowledge/Origin
The learner will be able to use prior knowledge and information from the text to develop original interpretations of the text.
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Strategies: Description/Main Idea
The learner will be able to apply knowledge of description, main idea, supporting details, flashbacks, comparison/contrast, chronological order, cause and effect, and process in order to improve understanding.
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critical Thinking: Criteria/Personal
The learner will be able to use personal or objective criteria to make meaning from reading materials.
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Sources: Information/Locate
The learner will be able to locate information from a variety of sources.
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Critical Thinking: Criteria/Personal
The learner will be able to use personal or objective criteria to make meaning and pass judgement on reading materials.
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Support: Evidence/Judge
The learner will be able to make judgements based on supporting evidence in a text.
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Structure: Format/Response
The learner will be able to recognize how authors use format and structure to elicit a response in readers.
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Structure: Response/Elicit
The learner will be able to recognize how authors use structure to elicit a response in readers.
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Reading Behaviors: Grade Level/Read
The learner will be able to read grade level appropriate materials.
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Evaluating: Prior Knowledge
The learner will be able to evaluate new information in relationship to prior knowledge.
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Construct Meaning: Background Knowledge
The learner will be able to construct meaning using background knowledge.
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Prior Knowledge: Memory/Increase
The learner will be able to increase memory by using prior knowledge.
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Prior Knowledge: Understand Information
The learner will be able to draw upon prior knowledge to understand information within a text.
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Prior Knowledge: Connections/Use
The learner will be able to use prior knowledge to make connections with the text while reading to construct meaning.
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Prior Knowledge: Combine/Conclusions
The learner will be able to combine prior knowledge and experience with text to draw conclusions.
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Analyze: Literary Selection
The learner will be able to analyze characters in a literary selection.
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Analyze: Conflict
The learner will be able to analyze character conflicts.
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Opinion: Criteria/Personal
The learner will be able to use personal or objective criteria to form opinions of reading materials.
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Analyze: Plot Development/Reading
The learner will be able to analyze plot development in a reading selection.
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Vocabulary: New
The learner will be able to understand and use new vocabulary: publications, editorial, observation, contradict, personification, alliteration, method of characterization, flashback, literary device, narration, exposition, memoir.
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| Speaking |
| This unit focuses on techniques and strategies (voice modulation, body language, ordering of ideas, visual aids, etc.) to convey meaning and to present information and opinions to groups. This unit includes: formal and informal communication, debate skills, and verbal/nonverbal communication. |
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*Purposes: Variety
The learner will be able to speak for a variety of purposes.
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*Purposes: Information/Analysis/Critique
The learner will be able to use speaking skills to present information and analyses or critiques of written or viewed material.
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*Discussion: Behavior/Participate
The learner will be able to behave appropriately when participating in discussions, listen well, and verify understanding.
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*Vocal Characteristic: Inflection/Varied
The learner will be able to use varied inflections to communicate with others.
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*Audience: Variety
The learner will be able to speak for a variety of audiences.
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Evaluator: Critical/Purposes
The learner will be able to speak for critical evaluation purposes.
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Purposes: Opinion/Express
The learner will be able to speak to clearly express his/her opinion.
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Purposes: Critical/Analysis
The learner will be able to speak for the purpose of critical analysis.
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General: Transitions/Design
The learner will be able to design oral presentations that include transitions and responses to questions.
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Word Choice: Varied/Communicate/Apply
The learner will be able to apply varied vocabulary to communicate ideas.
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Support: Oral Presentation
The learner will be able to support his/her opinion in an oral presentation.
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| Spelling |
| This unit includes studying language and word structure knowledge to discern the correct spelling of words. It includes skills related to editing passages for correct spelling by making connections between spelling, meaning, and structure. |
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Spelling: Application/Proficient/Rules
The learner will be able to write using increasingly proficient applications of spelling rules.
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Spelling: High-Frequency
The learner will be able to correctly spell words 1001-1200 from the district adopted high-frequency word list.
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| Study and Research Skills |
| This unit includes developing organization and research skills needed to find appropriate resources, to judge resources as relevant or not relevant to a given topic, to categorize and synthesize information, to take notes in class, and to study for exams. |
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Graphical Format: Understanding/Show
The learner will be able to show an understanding of the use of graphics, layout, white space, italics, parentheses, and other visual aids.
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Sources: Books/Identify
The learner will be able to identify books as sources of information.
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Research Technology: Electronic/Find
The learner will be able to read to find information in a wide range of electronic sources.
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Reference Form: Defining Elements
The learner will be able to describe defining elements of reference materials.
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Research Project: Discoveries/Writing
The learner will be able to present research discoveries in writing.
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Research Skills: Motives/Credibility
The learner will be able to understand motives, credibility, and point of view of authors when choosing reference materials.
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Research Skills: Traditional/Find
The learner will be able to read to find information in a wide range of traditional sources.
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Research Skills: Technical/Find
The learner will be able to read to find information in a wide range of technical sources.
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Cite: Sources/Plagiarism
The learner will be able to cite quoted sources to avoid plagiarism.
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| Viewing/Representing |
| The focus of this unit is on constructing meaning from visual sources and conveying meaning through visual representation. Meaning is conveyed by applying writing processes (prewriting, writing, revising, publishing) to visual representations of information. |
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*Viewing Behaviors: Display Skills
The learner will be able to display viewing comprehension skills.
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Evaluating: Media
The learner will be able to view media to participate in critical evaluation.
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