Systematic instruction and activities designed to enable students to: Develop effective listening and Yes No Yes No discussion techniques, distinguish fact from opinion, and identify the principle idea; Write and present speeches for a Yes No Yes No variety of purposes and audiences; Understand and the writing process by choosing a topic, generating ideas and locating information, Yes No Yes No drafting, revising, and editing in order to write well-organized, legible, papers; Correctly use the conventions of standard English, such as grammar, Yes No Yes No punctuation, spelling, capitalization, and word in all written work; Increase reading speed and comprehension and develop thinking Yes No Yes No skills, such as inference, applying knowledge, and judgments; Develop word recognition skills, such as context clues, prefixes, suffixes, and Yes No Yes No phonetic analysis, in order to develop an increased vocabulary; Understand ideas presented in a variety of visual formats such as television Yes No Yes No advertisements and political cartoons; Know and appreciate both traditional and contemporary literature, including Yes No Yes No English, American, and in translation; Understand literary analysis through Yes No Yes No discussion and writing activities; Recognize how our literary heritage relates to the customs, ideas, and Yes No Yes No values of today's life and culture; and
Systematic instruction and activities designed to enable students to: Develop effective listening and discussion techniques, distinguish fact from opinion, and identify the principle idea; Yes No Yes No Write and present speeches for a variety of purposes and audiences; Yes No Yes No Understand and the writing process by choosing a topic, generating ideas and locating information, drafting, revising, and editing in order to write well-organized, legible, papers; Yes No Yes No Correctly use the conventions of standard English, such as grammar, punctuation, spelling, capitalization, and word in all written work; Yes No Yes No Increase reading speed and comprehension and develop thinking skills, such as inference, applying knowledge, and judgments; Yes No Yes No Develop word recognition skills, such as context clues, prefixes, suffixes, and phonetic analysis, in order to develop an increased vocabulary; Yes No Yes No Understand ideas presented in a variety of visual formats such as television advertisements and political cartoons; Yes No Yes No Know and appreciate both traditional and contemporary literature, including English, American, and in translation; Yes No Yes No Understand literary analysis through discussion and writing activities; Yes No Yes No Recognize how our literary heritage relates to the customs, ideas, and values of today's life and culture; and Yes No Yes No
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