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  • 110.11 - English Language Arts and Reading, Kindergarten, Beginning with School Year 2009-2010
    • K.21 - Listening and Speaking/Listening. Students use comprehension skills to listen attentively to others in formal and informal settings. Students continue to apply earlier standards with greater complexity.
      • A - listen attentively by facing speakers and asking questions to clarify information
      • B - follow oral directions that involve a short related sequence of actions.
  • 110.12 - English Language Arts and Reading, Grade 1, Beginning with School Year 2009-2010.
    • 1.27 - Listening and Speaking/Listening. Students use comprehension skills to listen attentively to others in formal and informal settings. Students continue to apply earlier standards with greater complexity.
      • A - listen attentively to speakers and ask relevant questions to clarify information
  • 110.13 - English Language Arts and Reading, Grade 2, Beginning with School Year 2009-2010.
    • 2.28 - Listening and Speaking/Listening. Students use comprehension skills to listen attentively to others in formal and informal settings. Students continue to apply earlier standards with greater complexity.
      • A - listen attentively to speakers and ask relevant questions to clarify information
  • 110.14 - English Language Arts and Reading, Grade 3, Beginning with School Year 2009-2010.
    • 3.29 - Listening and Speaking/Listening. Students use comprehension skills to listen attentively to others in formal and informal settings. Students continue to apply earlier standards with greater complexity.
      • A - listen attentively to speakers, ask relevant questions, and make pertinent comments
  • 110.15 - English Language Arts and Reading, Grade 4, Beginning with School Year 2009-2010.
    • 4.27 - Listening and Speaking/Listening. Students use comprehension skills to listen attentively to others in formal and informal settings. Students continue to apply earlier standards with greater complexity.
      • A - listen attentively to speakers, ask relevant questions, and make pertinent comments
  • 110.16 - English Language Arts and Reading, Grade 5, Beginning with School Year 2009-2010.
    • 5.27 - Listening and Speaking/Listening. Students use comprehension skills to listen attentively to others in formal and informal settings. Students continue to apply earlier standards with greater complexity.
      • A - listen to and interpret a speaker's messages (both verbal and nonverbal) and ask questions to clarify the speaker's purpose or perspective
  • 112.11 - Science, Kindergarten, Beginning with School Year 2010-2011.
    • K.2 - Scientific investigation and reasoning. The student develops abilities to ask questions and seek answers in classroom and outdoor investigations.
      • A - ask questions about organisms, objects, and events observed in the natural world
    • K.4 - Scientific investigation and reasoning. The student uses age-appropriate tools and models to investigate the natural world.
      • B - use senses as a tool of observation to identify properties and patterns of organisms, objects, and events in the environment.
  • 112.12 - Science, Grade 1, Beginning with School Year 2010-2011
    • 1.2 - Scientific investigation and reasoning. The student develops abilities to ask questions and seek answers in classroom and outdoor investigations.
      • A - ask questions about organisms, objects, and events observed in the natural world
  • 112.13 - Science, Grade 2, Beginning with School Year 2010-2011
    • 2.9 - Organisms and environments. The student knows that living organisms have basic needs that must be met for them to survive within their environment
      • C - compare and give examples of the ways living organisms depend on each other and on their environments such as food chains within a garden, park, beach, lake, and wooded area.
  • 112.14 - Science, Grade 3, Beginning with School Year 2010-2011
    • 3.9 - Organisms and environments. The student knows that organisms have characteristics that help them survive and can describe patterns, cycles, systems, and relationships within the environments.
      • C - describe environmental changes such as floods and droughts where some organisms thrive and others perish or move to new locations.
  • 112.15 - Science, Grade 4, Beginning with School Year 2010-2011
    • 4.9 - Organisms and environments. The student knows and understands that living organisms within an ecosystem interact with one another and with their environment.
      • B - describe the flow of energy through food webs, beginning with the Sun, and predict how changes in the ecosystem affect the food web such as a fire in a forest.
  • 112.16 - Science, Grade 5, Beginning with School Year 2010-2011
    • 5.9 - Organisms and environments. The student knows that there are relationships, systems, and cycles within environments.
      • C - predict the effects of changes in ecosystems caused by living organisms, including humans, such as the overpopulation of grazers or the building of highways
  • 117.4 - Theatre, Kindergarten.
    • K.1 - Perception. The student develops concepts about self, human relationships, and the environment, using elements of drama and conventions of theatre.
      • C - Imitate sounds.
    • K.2 - Creative expression/performance. The student interprets characters, using the voice and body expressively, and creates dramatizations.
      • B - Assume roles through imitation and recreation.
      • C - Identify the characteristics of dramatic play.
    • K.5 - Response/evaluation. The student responds to and evaluates theatre and theatrical performances.
      • A - Begin to identify appropriate audience behavior.
      • B - Respond to dramatic activities.
      • C - Demonstrate awareness of the use of music, creative movement, and visual components in dramatic play.
      • D - Observe the performance of artists and identify theatrical vocations.
  • 117.7 - Theatre, Grade 1.
    • 1.5 - Response/evaluation. The student responds to and evaluates theatre and theatrical performances.
      • A - Identify appropriate audience behavior.
      • B - Respond to and begin to evaluate dramatic activities.
      • C - Identify the use of music, creative movement, and visual components in dramatic play.
      • D - Observe the performance of artists and identify theatrical vocations.
  • 117.10 - Theatre, Grade 2.
    • 2.5 - Response/evaluation. The student responds to and evaluates theatre and theatrical performances.
      • A - Identify and apply appropriate audience behavior.
      • B - React to and begin to evaluate dramatic activities.
      • D - Observe the performance of artists and identify theatrical vocations.
  • 117.13 - Theatre, Grade 3.
    • 3.2 - Creative expression/performance. The student interprets characters, using the voice and body expressively, and creates dramatizations.
      • D - Dramatize literary selections, using pantomime and imitative dialogue.
    • 3.5 - Response/evaluation. The student responds to and evaluates theatre and theatrical performances.
      • A - Evaluate and apply appropriate audience behavior consistently.
      • B - Evaluate simple dramatic activities and performances.
      • D - Observe the performance of amateur and professional artists and begin to compare vocations in theatre.
  • 117.16 - Theatre, Grade 4.
    • 4.3 - Creative expression/performance. The student applies design, directing, and theatre production concepts and skills.
      • D - Interact cooperatively with others in brief dramatizations.
    • 4.5 - Response/evaluation. The student responds to and evaluates theatre and theatrical performances.
      • A - Identify and apply appropriate audience behavior at performances.
      • C - Compare and contrast the ways ideas and emotions are depicted in art, dance, music, and theatre and select movement, music, or visual elements to enhance classroom dramatizations.
      • D - Compare theatre artists and their contributions.
  • 117.19 - Theatre, Grade 5.
    • 5.5 - Response/evaluation. The student responds to and evaluates theatre and theatrical performances.
      • A - Analyze and apply appropriate audience behavior at a variety of performances.
      • B - Define visual, aural, oral, and kinetic aspects of informal play-making and formal theatre and describe these components in art, dance, and music.
      • C - Compare and contrast ideas and emotions depicted in theatre, dance, music, and art and select and explain the use of movement, music, or visual elements to enhance classroom dramatizations.
      • D - Analyze and compare theatre artists and their contributions.

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