Speaking and Listening GLEs
Note: Blue indicates the Grade Level Expectations (GLEs) Note: Advanced expectations are noted in bold print
Advanced 6th / Advanced 7th / Advanced 8thPrepares for and delivers effective oral presentations
Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas:
- Present claims and findings, sequencing ideas logically and using pertinent descriptions, facts, and details to accentuate main ideas or themes; use established verbal and non-verbaldelivery techniques, including: adequate volume, clear pronunciation, appropriate eye contact, body position, and hand gestures. (Adapted from CCSS: SL.6.4)
- Include multimedia components (e.g., graphics, images, music, sound) and visual displays in presentations to establish context, clarify information, and broaden and deepen understanding.(Adapted from CCSS: SL.6.5)
- Adapt speech to a variety of contexts and tasks, demonstrating command of formal English when indicated or appropriate. (CCSS: SL.6.6) (See grade 6 Language expectations within the Writing standard and the BVSD Conventions Scope & Sequence page)
- Prepare for audience and purpose by ensuring proper length of presentation, suitable mode of dress, appropriate topic, and ready-to-share, engaging visuals and materials.
- Rehearse by carefully planning the sequence, script and visuals (if applicable) of presentation.
- Use formal and informal feedback to evaluate effectiveness of presentation.
- Demonstrate listening by providing oral and written feedback that reflects understanding, and insights into speaker’s message.
- Asks questions to pursue deeper and broader understanding and establish connections linking the purpose of the presentation to self and world.
Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas:
- Present claims and findings, emphasizing salient points in a focused, coherent manner with pertinent descriptions, facts, details, and examples; use established verbal and non-verbaldelivery techniques, including: adequate volume, clear pronunciation, appropriate eye contact, body position, and hand gestures. (Adapted from CCSS: SL.7.4)
- Include multimedia components and visual displays in presentations to establish context, clarify claims and findings, emphasize salient points, and broaden and deepen understanding.(Adapted from CCSS: SL.7.5)
- Adapt speech to a variety of contexts and tasks, demonstrating command of formal English when indicated or appropriate. (CCSS: SL.7.6) (See grade 7 Language expectations within the Writing standard and the BVSD Conventions Scope & Sequence page)
- Prepare for audience and purpose by ensuring proper length of presentation, suitable mode of dress, appropriate topic, and ready-to-share, engaging visuals and materials.
- Implement strategies to rehearse presentation (such as memorizing key phrases, creating note cards, practicing with peers and mirrors, etc.).
- Use formal and informal feedback to evaluate effectiveness of presentation.
- Demonstrate listening by providing oral and written feedback that reflects understanding, and insights into speaker’s message.
- Asks questions to pursue deeper and broader understanding and establish connections linking the purpose of the presentation to self and world.
Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas:
- Present claims and findings, emphasizing salient points in a focused, coherent manner with relevant evidence, sound valid reasoning, and well-chosen details; use established verbal and non-verbaldelivery techniques, including: modulation of fluency and tone, adequate volume, clear pronunciation, appropriate eye contact, body position, and hand gestures. (Adapted fromCCSS: SL.8.4)
- Integrate multimedia and visual displays into presentations to establish context,clarify information, strengthen claims and evidence, heighten interest, and broaden and deepen understanding.(Adapted fromCCSS: SL.8.5)
- Adapt speech to a variety of contexts and tasks, demonstrating command of formal English when indicated or appropriate. (CCSS: SL.8.6) (See grade 8 Language expectations within the Writing standard and the BVSD Conventions Scope & Sequence page)
- Prepare for audience and purpose by ensuring proper length of presentation, suitable mode of dress, appropriate topic, and ready-to-share, engaging visuals and materials.
- Refine strategies to rehearse presentation (such as memorizing key phrases, creating note cards, practicing with peers and mirrors, etc).
- Create a formal feedback form for peers, then analyze and use the results to evaluate effectiveness of presentation and plan for the next one.
- Demonstrate listening by providing oral and written feedback that reflects understanding, and insights into speaker’s message.
- Asks questions to pursue deeper and broader understanding and establish connections linking the purpose of the presentation to self and world.
Prepare for and participate effectively in a range of collaborative discussions
Comprehension and Collaboration:
- Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 6 topics, texts, and issues, building on others' ideas and expressing their own clearly. (CCSS: SL.6.1)
- Come to discussions prepared, having thoroughly read or studied required material; including writing comments in margins (or on sticky notes) to track increasing levels of understanding of the text;explicitly draw on that preparation by referring to evidence on the topic, text, or issue to probe and reflect on ideas under discussion. (Adapted from CCSS: SL.6.1a)
- Follow rules for collegial discussions, set specific goals and deadlines, and define individual roles as needed. (CCSS: SL.6.1b)
- Pose and respond to specific questions with elaboration and detail by making comments that contribute to the topic, text, or issue under discussion. (CCSS: SL.6.1c)
- Review the key ideas expressed and demonstrate understanding of multiple perspectives through reflection and paraphrasing. (CCSS: SL.6.1d)
- Interpret information presented in diverse media and formats (e.g., visually, quantitatively, orally) and explain how it contributes to a topic, text, or issue under study. (CCSS: SL.6.2)
- Delineate a speaker's argument and specific claims, distinguishing claims that are supported by reasons and evidence from claims that are not. (CCSS: SL.6.3)
- Use evidence to develop credibility (such as citing the text to support opinions).
- Focusing on a central idea, prepare and ask relevant interview questions for gathering information and developing understanding; evaluate the effectiveness of the techniques used and information gained from the interview.
- Recognize the difference between informal and formal language and make choices appropriate for group purposes.
Comprehension and Collaboration:
- Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 7 topics, texts, and issues, building on others' ideas and expressing their own clearly. (CCSS: SL.7.1)
ii.Follow rules for collegial discussions, track progress toward specific goals and deadlines, and define individual roles as needed. (CCSS: SL.7.1b)
iii.Pose questions that elicit elaboration and respond to others' questions and comments with relevant observations and ideas that bring the discussion back on topic as needed. (CCSS: SL.7.1c)
iv.Acknowledge new information expressed by others and, when warranted, modify their own views. (CCSS: SL.7.1d)
- Analyze the main ideas and supporting details presented in diverse media and formats (e.g., visually, quantitatively, orally) and explain how the ideas clarify a topic, text, or issue under study. (CCSS: SL.7.2)
- Delineate a speaker's argument and specific claims, evaluating the soundness of the reasoning and the relevance and sufficiency of the evidence. (CCSS: SL.7.3)
- Use evidence to develop credibility (such as citing textual evidence to support opinions), and connect evidence to other speaker’s contributions.
- Focusing on a central idea, prepare and ask relevant interview questions for gathering information and developing understanding;evaluate the effectiveness of the techniques used and information gained from the interview.
- Recognize the difference between informal and formal language and make choices appropriate for group purposes.
Comprehension and Collaboration:
- Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 8 topics, texts, and issues, building on others' ideas and expressing their own clearly. (CCSS: SL.8.1)
ii.Work with peers to set rules for collegial discussions and decision-making, track progress toward specific goals and deadlines, and define individual roles as needed. (Adapted from CCSS: SL.8.1b)
iii.Pose questions that connect the ideas of several speakers and respond to others' questions and comments with relevant evidence, observations, and ideas. (CCSS: SL.8.1c)
iv.Acknowledge new information expressed by others, and, when warranted, qualify or justify their own views in light of the evidence presented. (CCSS: SL.8.1d)
- Analyze the purpose of information presented in diverse media and formats (e.g., visually, quantitatively, orally) and evaluate the motives (e.g., social, commercial, political) behind its presentation. (CCSS: SL.8.2)
- Delineate a speaker's argument and specific claims, evaluating the soundness of the reasoning and relevance and sufficiency of the evidence and identifying when irrelevant evidence is introduced. (CCSS: SL.8.3)
- Use evidence to develop credibility (such as citing the text to support opinions), and find connections to other places in the text with similar evidence to work toward building a comprehensive understanding or argument.
- Focusing on a central idea, prepare and ask relevant interview questions for researching and developing ideas further; evaluate the effectiveness of the techniques used and information gained from the interview.
- Recognize the difference between informal and formal language and make choices appropriate for group purposes.
Reading for all Purposes GLEs
6th / 7th / 8thUse information from texts to support analysis and personal responses to literature and poetry
Key Ideas and Details:
- Cite textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text; distinguishbetween a strong and weak inference.(adapted from CCSS: RL.6.1)
- Determine a theme or central idea of a text and how it is conveyed through particular details; provide a summary of the text distinct from personal opinions or judgments. (CCSS: RL.6.2)
- Describe how a particular story's or drama's plot unfolds in a series of episodes as well as how the characters respond or change as the plot moves toward a resolution. (CCSS: RL.6.3)
- Analyze the theme or central idea of a text to draw parallels to personal experience.
- Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the impact of a specific word choice on meaning and tone. (CCSS: RL.6.4)
- Analyze how a particular sentence, chapter, scene, or stanza fits into the overall structure of a text and contributes to the development of the theme, setting, plot, and tone. (Adapted from CCSS: RL.6.5)
- Explain how an author develops the point of view of the narrator or speaker in a text. (CCSS: RL.6.6)
- Compare and contrast the experience of reading a story, drama, or poem to listening to or viewing an audio, video, or live version of the text, including contrasting what is “seen" and "heard" when reading the text to whatperceived when listening or watching; judge, and support by citing specific literary and/or media-based elements, which medium is most effective based on audience and purpose.(Adapted from CCSS: RL.6.7)
- Compare and contrast texts in different forms or genres (e.g., stories and poems; historical novels and fantasy stories) in terms of their approaches to similar themes and topics; analyzewhat makes a particular genre distinct and well-suited for a particular content.(Adapted from CCSS: RL.6.9)
- Use questions and simple graphic organizers to clarify, trackand extend comprehension of literature.
- Develop and share interpretations of literary works of personal interest.
- Recognize elements of myth, fable, and fairytale as they appear in contemporary literary works.
- Recognize elements of a primary source document in other works of literature.
- By the end of the year, read, comprehend, and analyze literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, in the grades 6-8 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range. (Adapted from CCSS: RL.6.10)
Key Ideas and Details:
- Cite several pieces of textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text; distinguish between a strong and weak inference. (adapted from CCSS: RL.7.1)
- Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze its development by identifying key details and events that reflect the theme or central idea; provide an objective summary of the text. (adapted from CCSS: RL.7.2)
- Analyze how particular elements of a story or drama interact (e.g., how setting shapes the characters or plot), and provoke decisions and turning points. (adapted from CCSS: RL.7.3)
- Analyze the theme or central idea of a text to draw parallels to personal experience
- Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the impact of rhymes and other repetitions of sounds and words(e.g., alliteration, anaphora) on a specific verse or stanza of a poem or section of a story or drama. (Adapted from CCSS: RL.7.4)
- Analyze how a drama's or poem's form or structure (e.g., soliloquy, sonnet) contributes to its meaning, mood and tone. (Adapted from CCSS: RL.7.5)
- Analyze how an author develops and contrasts the points of view of different characters or narrators in a text. (CCSS: RL.7.6)
- Compare and contrast a written story, drama, or poem to its audio, filmed, staged, or multimedia version, analyzing the effects of techniques unique to each medium (e.g., lighting, sound, color, or camera focus and angles in a film); judge, and support by citing specific literary and/or media-based elements, which medium is most effective based on audience and purpose. (Adapted from CCSS: RL.7.7)
- Compare and contrast a fictional portrayal of a time, place, or character and a historical account of the same period as a means of understanding how authors of fiction use or alter history; analyze how eachof the two genres prioritizecertain information. (Adapted from CCSS: RL.7.9)
- Create and use various outline formats to track events, setting changes, and character development in a piece of literature.
- Develop and share interpretations of literary works of personal interest.
- Recognize, compare and contrast distinct features of literature from various world cultures.
- Recognize elements of a primary source document in other works of literature.
- By the end of the year, read,comprehend, and analyze literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, in the grades 6-8 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range. (Adapted from CCSS: RL.7.10)
Key Ideas and Details:
- Cite the textual evidence that most strongly supports an analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text;distinguish between a strong and weak inference. (adapted from CCSS: RL.8.1)
- Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text, including its relationship to the characters, setting, and plot; provide an objective summaryof and commentary on the text.(adapted from CCSS: RL.8.2)
- Analyze how particular lines of dialogue or incidents in a story or drama propel the action, reveal aspects of a character, or provoke a decisionor confrontation. (adapted from CCSS: RL.8.3)
- Analyze the theme or central idea of a text to draw parallels to personal experience
- Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone, including analogies or allusions to other texts. (CCSS: RL.8.4)
- Compare and contrast the structure of two or more texts and analyze how the differing structure of each text contributes to its meaning, style, and intended effect on audience. (Adapted from CCSS: RL.8.5)
- Analyze how differences in the points of view of the characters and the audience or reader (e.g., created through the use of dramatic irony) create such effects as suspense or humor. (CCSS: RL.8.6)
- Analyze the extent to which a filmed or live production of a story or drama stays faithful to or departs from the text or script, evaluating the choices made by the director or actors; judge and support by citing specific literary and performance/media-based elements, which medium is most effective based on audience and purpose. (Adapted from CCSS: RL.8.7)
- Analyze how a modern work of fiction draws on references or allusions in the form of themes, patterns of events, or character types from myths, traditional stories, or religious works such as the Bible, including describing how the material is rendered new; examine how and why the author uses references and allusions to affect audience and purpose.(Adapted from CCSS: RL.8.9)
- Find, create, and use graphic organizers and note-taking formats while reading to map relationships among implied or explicit ideas or viewpoints.
- Develop and share interpretations of literary works of personal interest.
- Recognize elements of traditional, classical, and contemporary works of literature in society, especially in the way these elements reveal lingering and also changing cultural values
- Relate a literary work to primary source documents of its literary period or historical setting.