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K–12 teaching and learning · from the UNC School of Education

English I

Goal 4: The learner will create and use standards to critique communication.

Objective 4.01
Evaluate the effectiveness of communication by:
  • examining the use of strategies in a presentation/product.
  • applying a set of predetermined standards.
  • creating an additional set of standards and applying them to the presentation/product.
  • comparing effective strategies used in different presentations/products.
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Objective 4.02
Read and critique various genres by:
  • using preparation, engagement, and reflection strategies appropriate for the text.
  • identifying and using standards to evaluate aspects of the work or the work as a whole.
  • judging the impact of different stylistic and literary devices on the work.
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Objective 4.03
Demonstrate the ability to read, listen to and view a variety of increasingly complex print and non-print critical texts appropriate to grade level and course literary focus, by:
  • selecting, monitoring, and modifying as necessary reading strategies appropriate to readers' purpose.
  • identifying and analyzing text components (such as organizational structures, story elements, organizational features) and evaluating their impact on the text.
  • providing textual evidence to support understanding of and reader's response to text.
  • demonstrating comprehension of main idea and supporting details.
  • summarizing key events and/or points from text.
  • making inferences, predicting, and drawing conclusions based on text.
  • identifying and analyzing personal, social, historical or cultural influences, contexts, or biases.
  • making connections between works, self and related topics.
  • analyzing and evaluating the effects of author's craft and style.
  • analyzing and evaluating the connections or relationships between and among ideas, concepts, characters and/or experiences.
  • identifying and analyzing elements of critical environment found in text in light of purpose, audience, and context.
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