What Your Student will Learn in 4th Grade
Speaking, Listening, and Viewing
4th Grade Standards for Speaking, Listening, and Viewing
Standard: The student will speak clearly and effectively for a variety of purposes and audiences and actively listen to, view and evaluate oral communication and media.
I. Speaking and Listening
Standard: The student will demonstrate understanding and communicate effectively through listening and speaking.
Students will:
1. Participate in and follow agree-upon rules for conversation and formal discussions in large and small groups.
2. Demonstrate active listening and comprehension.
3. Give oral presentations to different audiences for different purposes.
4. Organize and summarize ideas, using evidence, to support opinions or main ideas.
5. Perform expressive oral readings of prose, poetry or drama.
II. Media Literacy
Standard: The student will critically analyze information found in electronic and print media, and will use a variety of these sources to learn about a topic and represent ideas.
Students will:
1. Read print, view pictures and video images and listen to audio files and identify distinctions in how information is presented in print and non-print materials.
2. Begin to make informed judgments about messages promoted in the media, such as those in film, television, radio and newspapers.
3. Use print, pictures, audio and video to express ideas and knowledge gleaned from these sources.
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