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 Kindergarten:
1. Listen fully to understand instructions or hear daily messages.
2. Listen to identify main characters and events in stories.
3. Listen to rhymes and songs to begin developing an understanding of letter/sound relationships.
By the end of Grade 1:
1. Listen and respond appropriately to directions
2. Listen to hear initial, final, and eventually middle sounds in words.
3. Listen to a familiar text being read to begin tracking print.
4. Listen to a spoken word to produce another word that rhymes with it.
By the end of Grade 2:
1. Listen critically to identify main ideas and supporting details.
2. Begin to distinguish between types of speech (e.g., a joke, a chat, a warning).
3. Listen and contribute to class discussions.

By the end of Grade 3:
1. Connect messages heard to prior knowledge and experiences.
2. Exchange information through verbal and nonverbal messages.
By the end of Grade 4:
1. Listen actively for a variety of purposes such as enjoyment and obtaining information.
2. Listen attentively and critically to a variety of speakers.
3. Interpret vocabulary gained through listening.
By the end of Grade 5:
1. Listen actively for a variety of purposes such as enjoyment and obtaining information.
2. Listen attentively and critically to a variety of speakers.
3. Acknowledge the speaker through eye contact and use appropriate feedback and questions to clarify the speaker’s message.
4. Recognize and analyze persuasive techniques while listening.
5. Recognize the rich and varied language of literature (e.g., listen to a recording of poetry or classic literature).
6. Listen to determine a speaker’s purpose, attitude, and perspective.
7. Use, when appropriate, criteria/rubric to evaluate oral presentations, such as purpose, delivery techniques, content, visual aids, body language, and facial expressions.
By the end of Grade 6:
1. Listen actively for a variety of purposes such as enjoyment and obtaining information.
2. Listen attentively and critically to a variety of speakers.
3. Acknowledge the speaker through eye contact and use appropriate feedback and questions to clarify the speaker’s message.
4. Recognize and analyze persuasive techniques while listening.
5. Recognize the rich and varied language of literature (e.g., listen to a recording of poetry or classic literature).
6. Listen to determine a speaker’s purpose, attitude, and perspective.
7. Use, when appropriate, criteria/rubric to evaluate oral presentations, such as purpose, delivery techniques, content, visual aids, body language, and facial expressions.
By the end of Grade 7:
1. Demonstrate active listening behaviors in a variety of situations (e.g., one-on-one or small group).
2. Demonstrate active listening by analyzing information, ideas, and opinions to determine relevancy.
3. Acknowledge the speaker through eye contact and use appropriate feedback and questions to clarify the speaker’s message.
4. Recognize persuasive techniques and credibility in oral communication.
5. Listen to determine a speaker's purpose, attitude, and perspective.
6. Use, when appropriate, criteria/rubric to evaluate oral presentations, such as purpose, delivery techniques, content, visual aids, body language, and facial expressions.
By the end of Grade 8:
1. Demonstrate active listening behaviors in a variety of situations (e.g., one-on-one or small group).
2. Demonstrate active listening by analyzing information, ideas, and opinions to determine relevancy.
3. Acknowledge the speaker through eye contact and use appropriate feedback and questions to clarify the speaker’s message.
4. Recognize persuasive techniques and credibility in oral communication.
5. Listen to determine a speaker's purpose, attitude, and perspective.
6. Use, when appropriate, criteria/rubric to evaluate oral presentations, such as purpose, delivery techniques, content, visual aids, body language, and facial expressions.
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 Kindergarten:
1. Listen attentively to books teacher reads to class
2. Answer questions correctly about books read aloud.
By the end of Grade 1:
1. Listen to make predictions about stories read aloud.
2. Follow simple oral directions.
3. Recall information from listening to stories, poems, television and film.
4. Retell, reenact, or dramatize stories or parts of stories heard.
5. Respond appropriately to questions about stories read aloud.
6. Begin to track print when listening to a familiar text being read or when rereading their own writing.
7. Ask questions for clarification and explanation of stories and ideas heard.
By the end of Grade 2:
1. Follow one- and two- step oral directions.
2. Develop a strong listening vocabulary to aid comprehension and oral and written language growth.
By the end of Grade 3:
1. Follow two- to three- step directions
2. Listen to a story read aloud and/or information from television or film, and summarize main ideas.
3. Paraphrase information shared by others
By the end of Grade 4:
1. Demonstrate competence in active listening through comprehension of a story, interview, and oral report of an event or incident
2. Develop listening strategies (e.g., asking questions and taking notes) to understand what is heard.
3. Demonstrate competence in active listening by interpreting and applying received information to new situations and solving problems.
4. Make inferences based on an oral report or presentation.
5. Describe how language reflects specific regions and/or cultures.
6. Follow three-and four-step oral directions.
By the end of Grade 5:
1. Demonstrate competence in active listening through responding to a story, interview, or oral report (e.g., summarizing, reacting, retelling).
2. Demonstrate competence in active listening by interpreting and applying received information to new situations and in solving problems.
3. Ask pertinent questions, take notes, and draw conclusions based on information presented.
4. Make inferences based on an oral report or presentation.
5. Follow three-and four-step oral directions.
By the end of Grade 6:
1. Demonstrate competence in active listening through responding to a story, interview, or oral report (e.g. summarizing, reacting, retelling).
2. Demonstrate competence in active listening by interpreting and applying received information to new situations and in solving problems.
3. Ask pertinent questions, take notes, and draw conclusions based on information presented.
4. Make inferences based on an oral report or presentation.
5. Follow three and four-step oral directions.
By the end of Grade 7:
1. Interpret a speaker's verbal and nonverbal messages, purposes, and perspectives.
2. Exhibit proficiency in integrating oral reading with listening, writing, and viewing.
3. Critique information heard or viewed.
4. Critique oral presentations using agreed-upon criteria for evaluation (e.g., rubric).
5. Ask probing questions to elicit information, including evidence to support the speaker’s claims and conclusions.
6. Make inferences based on an oral report or presentation.
By the end of Grade 8:
1. Interpret a speaker's verbal and nonverbal messages, purposes, and perspectives.
2. Exhibit proficiency in integrating oral reading with listening, writing, and viewing.
3. Critique information heard or viewed.
4. Critique oral presentations using agreed-upon criteria for evaluation (e.g., rubric).
5. Ask probing questions to elicit information, including evidence to support the speaker’s claims and conclusions.
6. Paraphrase a speaker’s purpose and point of view.
7. Make inferences based on an oral report or presentation.

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.