State Standards for Language Arts:

1.0 Students know and use word analysis skills and strategies to comprehend new words encountered in text.
2.0: Students use reading process skills and strategies to build comprehension.
3.0: Students read to comprehend, interpret, and evaluate literature from a variety of authors, cultures, and times.
4.0: Students read to comprehend, interpret, and evaluate informational texts for specific purposes.
5.0: Students write a variety of texts that inform, persuade, describe, evaluate, or tell a story and are appropriate to purpose and audience.
6.0: Students write with a clear focus and logical development, evaluating, revising, and editing for organization, style, tone, and word choice.
7.0: Students write using standard English grammar, usage, punctuation, capitalization, and spelling
8.0: Students listen to and evaluate oral communications for content, style, speaker's purpose, and audience appropriateness.
9.0: Students speak using organization, style, tone, voice, and media aids appropriate to audience and purpose.
10.0: Students participate in discussions to offer information, clarify ideas, and support a position.
11.0: Formulate research questions, use a variety of sources to obtain information, weigh the evidence, draw valid conclusions, and present findings.