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| Use appropriate voice, phrasing, and intonation in different situations. |
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| Communicate clearly in an organized and sequential manner. |
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| Use appropriate grammar and vocabulary. |
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Practice effective discussion techniques:
- Stay focused on the topic
- Activate prior knowledge
- Make personal connections
- Ask for clarification
- Summarize information
- Respond
- Acknowledge
- Restate the ideas and opinions of others respectfully
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| PRESENTATIONS |
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| Use research-based information and analysis in research projects or extended reports. |
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Incorporate body basics:
- Posture
- Eye contact
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- Gestures
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| Use multi-media to enhance presentation. |
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| Use notes/outline in presentation. |
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| Stay on topic while sharing information with audience. |
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| Demonstrate audience awareness and adapts presentation to audience. |
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| Incorporate references. |
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| Incorporate effective attention grabbing opener. |
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| WRITTEN COMMUNICATION |
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| Grammar & Usage |
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| Combine sentences for fluency, using precise and descriptive words and/or eliminating irrelevant details to improve quality and effectiveness of writing. |
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| Vary beginnings, lengths and patterns of sentences to improve flow and to enhance meaning and style of writing. |
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| Write a narrative using elements of fiction to advance the plot. |
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| Use expressive language when producing or responding to texts (poetry, journals, editorials, drama, reflective essays, and/or newsletters) |
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| Write in a variety of nonfiction forms (letter, report, biography, and/or autobiography to inform, describe or persuade) |
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| Prewriting |
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| Determine genre and use prewriting strategies to select topic and collect and organize details. |
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| Drafting |
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| Incorporate the thesis statement, which identifies the focus or controlling idea for the entire composition, into an introductory paragraph which may include a lead or hook, such as an anecdote, startling statistic, or quotation. |
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| Write in paragraphs that include relevant details and evidence that support the main ideas of the paragraph and thesis statement, grouping ideas logically within the paragraph, placing paragraph breaks logically. |
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| Organize ideas using appropriate structure to maintain the unity of the composition (e.g., chronology order, order of importance, comparison and contrast, cause and effect, classification and definition) using a variety of transitional words and phrases. |
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| Write a conclusion that ties it to the introduction.. |
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| Revising |
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| Give/receive appropriate feedback and evaluate writing based on established criteria |
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| Review content and organize making appropriate changes to improve clarity and logical progression of ideas(e.g., increasing elaboration or support for ideas/thesis, providing relevant details, definitions, narrative anecdotes, illustrative scenarios, or counterarguments appropriate to the genre. |
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| Create a title to reflect content. |
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| Revise for descriptive adjectives and adverbs. |
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| Reread and rearrange words, sentences, and sequence of ideas to clarify meaning. |
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| Replace commonly used verbs with vivid verbs. |
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| Use a thesaurus to locate and choose effective synonyms for common words or to avoid redundancy. |
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| Clarify thesis statement and/or topic sentences and adding details to support main ideas, if needed. |
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| Make style, diction, and voice or persona more consistent with form (e.g., organizational structure or writing genre) and the perspective conveyed. |
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| Editing |
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| Apply rules of capitalization (titles and proper nouns) |
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| Apply rules of spelling (homophones, irregular plurals, and contractions) |
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- Apply rules of punctuation
- Commas
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- Apostrophes
- Semicolons
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- Parentheses
- Transitions
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Apply rules of usage:
- Verb tense
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- Possessives
- Pronouns
- Adjectives
- Adverbs
- Sentence structure
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| Correct misspellings using available software programs, including choosing the correct spelling option among several choices. |
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| Select correct choice when using grammar-checking software (e.g., accepts suggested change or disregards inappropriate suggested change) |
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| Publishing |
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| Produce a final copy. |
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| RESEARCH |
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| Skim/scan for key information. |
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| Gives credit for others' ideas, images, and multimedia information, including others' ideas directly quoted or paraphrased by student, by citing sources using a standard method of documentation (e.g., MLA or APA style) |
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| Understands plagiarism and ramifications. |
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| Resources |
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| Select and use appropriate sources (web, journals, on-line libraries) |
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| Use formatting features to produce a final draft by centering title, choosing appropriate font size and style, indentation, pagination, and line spacing. |
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Use resources throughout the writing process.
- Dictionary
- Thesaurus
- Peer conference
- Scoring guide
- Genre exemplars
- Style manual
- Rubric
- Word processor
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| Note Taking |
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| Take notes from appropriate sources of information. |
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| Organize information in to a workable format using outlining, graphic organizers, note cards, or visuals. |
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| List sources of authors and titles of books and other materials when used as references in written work. |
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| Utilize note-taking strategies: words, phrases, fragments, paraphrasing. |
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