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| English Language Arts Standards |
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| Writing Applications Standard |  |
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| Benchmarks (5 - 7) |
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| B. | Write responses to literature that extend beyond the summary and support judgments through references to the text. |
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| Grade Level Indicators (Grade 6) |
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| 2. | Write responses to novels, stories, poems and plays that provide an interpretation, critique or reflection and support judgments with specific references to the text. |
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| Grade Level Indicators (Grade 7) |
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| 2. | Write responses to novels, stories, poems and plays that provide an interpretation, a critique or a reflection and support judgments with specific references to the text. |
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| Standards for the English Language Arts |
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| Reading strategies, language use, and conventions | |
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| Students apply a wide range of strategies to comprehend, interpret, evaluate, and appreciate texts. They draw on their prior experience, their interactions with other readers and writers, their knowledge of word meaning and of other texts, their word identification strategies, and their understanding of textual features (e.g., sound-letter correspondence, sentence structure, context, graphics). |
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| Students adjust their use of spoken, written, and visual language (e.g., conventions, style, vocabulary) to communicate effectively with a variety of audiences and for different purposes. |
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| Purposes for using spoken, written, and visual language | |
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| Students participate as knowledgeable, reflective, creative, and critical members of a variety of literacy communities. |
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