English Language Arts Comprehension

K-12 Comprehension Outcomes

Outcome 1:
Information and Understanding		 Outcome 2:
Literary Response and Expression		 Outcome 3:
Critical Analysis and Evaluation
As listeners, speakers, readers, and writers, students will collect data, facts, and ideas; discover relationships and concepts; make generalizations by using knowledge generated from oral, written, and electronic sources.

Sources may include, but are not limited to: informational texts; audio, media, oral presentations; professional journals, newspapers, magazines; charts, graphs and diagrams; as well as other expository and imaginative sources. 		As listeners, speakers, readers, and writers, students will comprehend, interpret, and critique imaginative texts in every medium, making connections to relevant personal experiences and knowledge to understand the text, while recognizing its social, cultural, and/or historical features.

Sources may include, but are not limited to: imaginative texts such as novels, short stories, poetry, historical fiction, memoir, fables and folktales, satire, plays, biographies, and auto-biographies. 		As listeners, speakers, readers, and writers, students will analyze and evaluate experiences, ideas, information and issues using evaluative criteria from a variety of perspectives and recognizing the difference in evaluations based on varied sets of criteria.

Sources for ideas, information, issues, and experiences may include, but are not limited to: literature; informational texts and textbooks; public documents and political speeches; advertisements; book/movie reviews, critiques, and editorials; technical manuals and professional journals.
Students will:
  • Gather, interpret, and analyze extensive, authentic, complex, and diverse sources/genres to develop and extend understanding of the information and ideas.
  • Select, compare, and synthesize information from a variety of diverse sources/genres to identify and evaluate for similarities and differences.
  • Substantiate a position or claim by analyzing, evaluating, selecting, and using relevant information.
  • Evaluate information from a variety of diverse sources relative to an intended purpose.
  • Select from and use a repertoire of strategies to organize, categorize, analyze, and synthesize information to make meaningful connections.
  • Select, use, reflect upon, and evaluate the effectiveness of recursive comprehension strategies (before, during, and after), adjusting to extract relevant information and construct meaning from multiple sources.
  • Distinguish between relevant and irrelevant details, facts, and opinions by asking questions to clarify, interpret, and extend knowledge and understanding.
  • Construct meaningful and well-developed connections to relevant prior knowledge and experiences that facilitate the development of further insights.
  • Analyze text structures to understand and interpret information presented.
  • Synthesize personal thoughts with the perspectives, ideas, and questions voiced by others in order to construct meaning and extend knowledge and understanding by engaging in discourse.
 Students will:
  • Analyze, evaluate, and interpret multiple texts and performances from a wide range of authors, subjects, genres, and/or historical periods to synthesize and make inferences.
  • Identify and interpret the author's/authors' purpose and message while reading and listening to texts and viewing performances.
  • Synthesize common themes across texts and select relevant details, information, and examples from the texts to support interpretations and substantiate a controlling idea.
  • Evaluate literary merit based on understanding of genre, literary elements and techniques, literary tradition, and/or historical period.
  • Identify and apply understanding of the distinguishing characteristics of different literary genres, historical periods, and cultural/literary traditions, in order to extend interpretation.
  • Make essential text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world connections before, during, and after reading to construct meaning and extend interpretation.
  • Select, use, reflect upon, and evaluate the effectiveness of recursive comprehension strategies (before, during, and after) that are matched to the structure and complexity of text.
  • Express original ideas, concerns, and questions about literary texts through clear and respectful discourse.
  • Apply knowledge of literary elements, techniques, text structures, and author's craft including but not limited to: setting, character, plot, theme, point of view, imagery, figurative language, allegory, irony, blank verse, symbolism, stream-of-consciousness, to extend interpretation.
  • Attend to grammar, punctuation, syntax, and dialect in order to read aloud accurately, expressively, and fluently to convey a precise and meaningful interpretation.
  • Synthesize personal thoughts with the perspectives, ideas, and questions voiced by others in order to construct meaning and extend knowledge and understanding by engaging in discourse.
  • Develop an aesthetic appreciation of literature as an art form.
 Students will:
  • Analyze, interpret, evaluate and synthesize information, ideas, and language from a wide range of texts and other sources across subject areas.
  • Recognize, understand, and interpret the author/authors' point of view and perspective.
  • Interpret the author/authors' perspective and purpose to evaluate the validity of the arguments presented.
  • Evaluate the work of self and others based upon a variety of criteria in order to understand that evaluations change relative to the criteria used.
  • Assess the quality and dependability of texts and other sources using criteria related to genre, subject area, purpose, and critical perspectives specific to an area of study.
  • Select, use, reflect upon, and evaluate the effectiveness of recursive comprehension strategies (before, during, and after), adjusting to extract relevant information and construct meaning from multiple sources.
  • Engage in inquiry, both independently and collaboratively, to enhance understanding and develop further insights.
  • Expand and apply word knowledge by employing a variety of word analysis strategies.
  • Synthesize personal thoughts with the perspectives, ideas, and questions voiced by others in order to construct meaning and extend knowledge and understanding by engaging in discourse.

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