ELAR 4.7

Response skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts. The student responds to an increasingly challenging variety of sources that are read, heard, or viewed. The student is expected to:

• (1) describe personal connections to a variety of sources, including self-selected texts;
  • (A) write responses that demonstrate understanding of texts, including comparing and contrasting ideas across a variety of sources;
  • (B) use text evidence to support an appropriate response;
  • (C) retell, paraphrase, or summarize texts in ways that maintain meaning and logical order;
  • (D) interact with sources in meaningful ways such as notetaking, annotating, freewriting, or illustrating;
  • (E) respond using newly acquired vocabulary as appropriate; and
  • (F) discuss specific ideas in the text that are important to the meaning.