New Standards
The performance standards for English Language Arts define high standards of literacy for American students. The standards focus on what is central to the domain; they are built around reading, writing, speaking, listening, and viewing; and they acknowledge the importance of conversations, literature, public discourse, and functional documents. The standards were developed with the help of classroom teachers and content experts in concert with both the National Council of Teachers of English and the International Reading Association.
The links below with lead you to the standards themselves, as well as, teacher developed units and project ideas that integrate technology into the curriculum. The units were developed by teachers throughout Rhode Island during the RITTI (Rhode Island Teacher and Technology Initiative) summer training that took place during the summers of "97", "98", & "99".
RITTI training was sponsored by the Rhode Island Foundation, with the help of URI (University of Rhode Island) and RIDE (Rhode Island Department of Education and RINET (Rhode Island Network).
- The five main standards for English Language Arts are as follows:
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- Speaking, Listening, and Viewing
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- Conversation, Grammar, and Usage of the English Language
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- Literature
- At the high School level, two additional standards are added:
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- Public Documents
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- Functional Documents
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