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English Language Development — Grades 9–12

Goal 1. Listening — Intermediate High

Goal 1. Listening

The learner will comprehend spoken English in a variety of personal, social, and academic contexts.

Level: Intermediate High

Students will begin to use expanded vocabulary to participate effectively in social and academic conversations and presentations with occasional difficulty. They may continue to use forms of non-verbal communication to demonstrate comprehension, but will rely more upon verbal skills. Learning objectives focus on developing more complex academic vocabulary, comprehending academic questions spoken at normal speed, following multi-step directions, demonstrating comprehension of various literary genres, participating in group discourse, using appropriate stress and intonation, applying grammatical patterns in speech, negotiating meaning, paraphrasing, identifying elements of fiction and non-fiction, beginning to understand elements of poetry, using reference materials, discerning cultural variations represented in texts, learning guided note-taking, writing multi-paragraph essays with complex sentence styles, and editing own grammar and writing conventions.

Objective IH 1.01
Develop vocabulary based on increasingly complex academic and non-academic topics.
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Objective IH 1.02
Comprehend most conversational questions on familiar topics spoken at a normal speed.
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Objective IH 1.03
Understand and follow multiple-step directions on academic topics when spoken at a normal speed with occasional difficulty.
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Objective IH 1.04
Comprehend academic questions spoken at normal speed with occasional difficulty.
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Objective IH 1.05
Demonstrate comprehension of various literary genres through verbal responses with restatements, modeling, and prompting.
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Objective IH 1.06
Understand academic language conventions across the content areas when spoken at a normal speed with occasional difficulties and restatements.
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Objective IH 1.07
Respond, with occasional difficulty, when participating in group discourse by adapting language and communication behaviors to the situation to accomplish a specific purpose.
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