Strand+IV

**Performance standards:**  3. Respond to literature and other ideas by making connections to one’s **__own__** life experiences. 4. Use creative and artistic formats to express personal learning, both electronically and in person **__(e.g., __**through book clubs, discussion groups, blogs, etc.) || ** Grades 9-12 Benchmark: **  **4.** Evaluate one’s own ability to select resources that are engaging and appropriate for personal interest and needs. || Excerpted from Standards for the 21st-Century Learner by the American Association of School Librarians, a division of the American Library Association , copyright © 2007 American Library Association. Available for download at www.ala.org/aasl/standards. Used with permission.
 * Strand IV: Pursue personal and aesthetic growth. **
 * __ Content Standard __**** : Students will demonstrate an awareness of and an appreciation for literature in a variety of formats for personal enrichment and growth. **
 * = ** Grades K-5 Benchmark: **
 * A. ** Read, listen, and respond to selections from a variety of authors, cultures and genres
 * Performance Standards **
 * 1. ** Use pictures and text to make, confirm, and revise predictions about story content.
 * 2. ** Compare different versions of the same story.
 * 3. ** Explain beginning, middle, and end of stories.
 * 4. ** Identify/describe and analyze characters, setting, and plot elements in a variety of texts.
 * 5. ** Retell stories or parts of stories.
 * 6. ** Form opinions about text.
 * 7. ** Discuss visual presentations or performances.
 * 8. ** Participate in the exchange of ideas about literature.
 * 9. ** Identify award-winning books. ||= ** Grades 6-8 Benchmark: **
 * A. ** Read widely and fluently from a variety of authors, cultures and genres to make connections with previous knowledge, self, and the world.
 * Performance Standards: **
 * 1. ** Read, view and listen with purpose to investigate ideas beyond the required curriculum.
 * 2. ** Identify and describe the criteria for selection of award-winning books.
 * 3. ** Examine classic and contemporary literature from a variety of historical periods and diverse cultures.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; msofareastfontfamily: Arial; msolist: Ignore;">4. ** Read to support and to challenge one’s own point of view. ||= ** Grades 9-12 Benchmark: **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; msofareastfontfamily: Arial; msolist: Ignore;">A. ** Read, view, and listen to literature from a variety of authors, cultures and genres, for pleasure and personal growth.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; msofareastfontfamily: Arial; msolist: Ignore;">1. ** Independently seek and locate information about personal interests, using the same criteria and strategies used for academic information seeking.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; msofareastfontfamily: Arial; msolist: Ignore;">2. ** Read, view and listen for pleasure, to learn, to solve problems and explore new ideas beyond the required curriculum.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; msofareastfontfamily: Arial; msolist: Ignore;">3. ** Identify __**one's**__ own areas of interest. ||
 * ** Grades K-5 Benchmark: **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; msofareastfontfamily: Arial; msolist: Ignore;">B. ** Choose and read various kinds of literature.
 * Performance Standards **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; msofareastfontfamily: Arial; msolist: Ignore;">1. ** Read for pleasure and personal growth.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; msofareastfontfamily: Arial; msolist: Ignore;">2. ** Select and read from a range of genres.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; msofareastfontfamily: Arial; msolist: Ignore;">3. ** Compare and contrast tales from different cultures.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; msofareastfontfamily: Arial; msolist: Ignore;">4. ** Describe how literature is created for a variety of purposes. || ** Grades 6-8 Benchmark:  **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; msofareastfontfamily: Arial; msolist: Ignore;">B. ** Analyze, explain, present, and respond to information and ideas from diverse texts using print or electronic f orums . **__fora__**.
 * Performance Standards: **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; msofareastfontfamily: Arial; msolist: Ignore;">1. ** Describe the characteristics of various literary genres.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; msofareastfontfamily: Arial; msolist: Ignore;">2. ** Identify literary elements and writing styles of a variety of literature, and explain how works are created for a variety of purposes.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; msofareastfontfamily: Arial; msolist: Ignore;">B. ** Read widely and fluently to make connections with self, the world, and previous reading.
 * Performance standards: **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; msofareastfontfamily: Arial; msolist: Ignore;">1. ** Read, view and use both fiction and nonfiction to enrich understanding of real world concepts.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; msofareastfontfamily: Arial; msolist: Ignore;">2. ** Read to support and challenge one’s own point of view.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; msofareastfontfamily: Arial; msolist: Ignore;">3. ** Respond to literature and ideas in various formats and genres by making connections through book clubs, interest groups, or online sharing.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; msofareastfontfamily: Arial; msolist: Ignore;">4. ** Identify, evaluate and respond to the author’s point of view by . **__in__** reading a variety of texts on the same theme. ||
 * ** Grades K-5 Benchmark: **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; msofareastfontfamily: Arial; msolist: Ignore;">C. ** Select materials reflecting personal interests.
 * Performance Standards **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; msofareastfontfamily: Arial; msolist: Ignore;">1. ** Seek information for personal learning in a variety of formats and genres.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; msofareastfontfamily: Arial; msolist: Ignore;">2. ** Connect ideas to one’s own interests and previous knowledge and experience.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; msofareastfontfamily: Arial; msolist: Ignore;">3. ** Evaluate one’s own ability to select resources that are engaging and appropriate for personal interest and needs. || ** Grades 6-8 Benchmark:  **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; msofareastfontfamily: Arial; msolist: Ignore;">C. ** Display curiosity by seeking literature related to personal interests and well-being.
 * Performance Standards: **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; msofareastfontfamily: Arial; msolist: Ignore;">1. ** Establish a . life skill**__s__** of reading, viewing, and listening for pleasure and personal growth.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; msofareastfontfamily: Arial; msolist: Ignore;">2. ** Recognize the limits of **__one's__** own personal knowledge, demonstrate motivation by seeking information to answer personal questions and interests, and display a willingness to go beyond minimal academic requirements.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; msofareastfontfamily: Arial; msolist: Ignore;">3. ** Find information about personal interests independently, using the same criteria and strategies as for academic information seeking.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; msofareastfontfamily: Arial; msolist: Ignore;">4. ** Evaluate one’s own ability to select resources that are engaging and appropriate for personal interest and needs. || ** Grades 9-12 Benchmark: **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; msofareastfontfamily: Arial; msolist: Ignore;">C. ** Seek and use information for personal learning in a variety of formats and genres.
 * Performance standards: **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; msofareastfontfamily: Arial; msolist: Ignore;">1. ** Use print, non-print and electronic resources for information about personal needs.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; msofareastfontfamily: Arial; msolist: Ignore;">2. ** Use interaction with, and feedback from teachers and peers to guide search.
 * 3**. //__Find information about personal interests independently, using the same criteria and strategies as for academic information__//.