STANDARD 3.4: Language Arts Literacy

Language Arts Literacy

Mission: Learning to read, write, speak, listen, and view critically, strategically and creatively enables students to discover personal and shared meaning throughout their lives.

Standard 3.4 Listening

All students will listen actively to information from a variety of sources in a variety of situations.

Big Idea: Listening is an active process to gain understanding.
3.4 A. Active Listening
Essential Questions	Enduring Understandings
-Can one hear but not listen?	- Listening is the process of receiving, constructing meaning from, and responding to spoken and/nonverbal messages.
Cumulative Progress Indicators	Comments and Examples
By the end of Grade 12:
1. Discuss, analyze and extend ideas heard orally.
2. Distinguish emotive from persuasive oral rhetoric.
3. Demonstrate active listening by taking notes, asking relevant questions, making meaningful comments, and providing constructive feedback to ideas in a persuasive speech, oral interpretation of a literary selection, or scientific or educational presentation.
4. Identify and define unfamiliar vocabulary through context in oral communications.
5. Analyze how a speaker’s word choice and nonverbal cues reveal purpose, attitude, and perspective.
3.4 B. Listening Comprehension
Essential Questions	Enduring Understandings
- How does a listener understand a message?	- Effective listeners are able to interpret and evaluate increasingly complex messages.
Cumulative Progress Indicators	Comments and Examples

By the end of Grade 12:
1. Summarize, make judgments, and evaluate the content and delivery of oral presentations.
2. Evaluate the credibility of a speaker.
3. Determine when propaganda and argument are used in oral forms.
4. Listen and respond appropriately to a debate.
5. Follow oral directions to perform specific tasks to answer questions or solve problems.
6. Paraphrase information presented orally by others.
7. Analyze the ways in which the style and structure of a speech supports or confuses its meaning or purpose.

Link to Standard 3.4 Grade 8

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