About Developmental Language Arts through ESOL
The purpose of this course is to enable students who are native speakers of languages other than English to develop proficient listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills in the English language. Emphasis will be on acquisition of integrated English communication skills in a wide range of activities and content areas.
The content should include, but not be limited to, the following:
- vocabulary for formal and informal conversation
- reading and writing skills
- integrated communication skills for school and work
This course shall integrate the Goal 3 Student Performance Standards of the Florida System of School Improvement and Accountability as appropriate to the content and processes of the subject matter. Student Performance Standards must reflect appropriate Sunshine State Standards benchmarks.
Course Requirements
The requirements include, but are not limited to, the benchmarks from the Sunshine State Standards that are most relevant to this course. Benchmarks correlated with a specific course requirement may also be addressed by other course requirements as appropriate.
After successfully completing this course, the student will:
CONVERSATION
LA.A.1.4.3 — refine vocabulary for interpersonal, academic, and workplace situations, including figurative, idiomatic, and technical meanings.
LA.C.1.4.3 — use effective strategies for informal and formal discussions, including listening actively and reflectively, connecting to and building on the ideas of a previous speaker, and respecting the viewpoints of others.
LA.C.3.4.4 — apply oral communication skills to interviews, group presentations, formal presentations, and impromptu situations.
READING COMPREHENSION
LA.A.1.4 — select and use prereading strategies that are appropriate to the text, such as discussion, making predictions, brainstorming, generating questions, and previewing to anticipate content, purpose, and organization of a reading selection.
LA.A.1.4.2 — select and use strategies to understand words and text, and to make and confirm inferences from what is read, including interpreting diagrams, graphs, and statistical illustrations.
LA.A.2.4.1 — determine the main idea and identify relevant details, methods of development, and their effectiveness in a variety of types of written material.
LA.A.2.4.2 — determine the author’s purpose and point of view and their effects on the text.
LA.E.1.4.1 — identify the characteristics that distinguish literary forms.
LA.E.1.4.3 — identify universal themes prevalent in the literature of all cultures.
LA.E.2.4.1 — analyze the effectiveness of complex elements of plot, such as setting, major events, problems, conflicts, and resolutions.
LA.E.2.4.6 — recognize and explain those elements in texts that prompt a personal response, such as connections between one’s own life and the characters, events, motives, and causes of conflict in texts.
Demonstrate proficient use of all elements of the writing process, including use of complex structures in sentence writing.
LA.B.1.4.1 — select and use appropriate prewriting strategies, such as brainstorming, graphic organizers, and outlining.
LA.B.1.4.2. — draft and revise writing that is
· focused, purposeful, and reflects insight into the writing situation;
· has an organizational pattern that provides for a logical progression of ideas;
· has effective use of transitional devices that contribute to a sense of completeness;
· has support that is substantial, specific, relevant, and concrete;
· demonstrates a commitment to and involvement with the subject;
· uses creative writing strategies as appropriate to the purpose of the paper;
· demonstrates a mature command of language with precision of expression;
· has varied sentence structure; and
· has few, if any, convention errors in mechanics, usage, punctuation, and spelling.
· focused, purposeful, and reflects insight into the writing situation;
· has an organizational pattern that provides for a logical progression of ideas;
· has effective use of transitional devices that contribute to a sense of completeness;
· has support that is substantial, specific, relevant, and concrete;
· demonstrates a commitment to and involvement with the subject;
· uses creative writing strategies as appropriate to the purpose of the paper;
· demonstrates a mature command of language with precision of expression;
· has varied sentence structure; and
· has few, if any, convention errors in mechanics, usage, punctuation, and spelling.
· correct spelling;
· correct punctuation, including commas, colons, and common use of semicolons;
· correct capitalization;
· correct sentence formation;
· correct instances of possessives, subject/verb agreement, instances of noun/pronoun agreement, and the intentional use of fragments for effect; and
· correct formatting that appeals to readers, including appropriate use of a variety of graphics, tables, charts, and illustrations in both standard and innovative forms
LISTENING AND SPEAKING
LA.C.1.4.1 — select and use appropriate listening strategies according to the intended purpose, such as solving problems, interpreting and evaluating the techniques and intent of a presentation, and taking action in career-related situations.
LA.C.1.4.2 — describe, evaluate, and expand personal preferences in listening to fiction, drama, literary nonfiction, and informal presentations.
LA.C.2.4.1 — determine main concept and supporting details in order to analyze and evaluate nonprint media messages.
LA.E.2.4.8 — know that people respond differently to texts based on their background knowledge, purpose, and point of view.
INTEGRATED SKILLS FOR SCHOOL AND WORK
Demonstrate proficient use of listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills in school-and work-related situations.
LA.A.2.4.4. — locate, gather, analyze, and evaluate written information for a variety of purposes, including research projects, real-world tasks, and self-improvement.
LA.A.2.4.6 — select and use appropriate study and research skills and tools according to the type of information being gathered or organized, including almanacs, government publications, microfiche, new sources, and information services.
LA.A.2.4.7 — analyze the validity and reliability of primary source information and use the information appropriately.
LA.A.2.4.8 — synthesize information from multiple sources to draw conclusions.
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