A student expectation is directly related to the knowledge and skills statement, is more specific about how students demonstrate their learning, and always begins with a verb. Student expectations are further broken down into their component parts, often referred to as “breakouts.”
A knowledge and skills statement is a broad statement of what students must know and be able to do. It generally begins with a learning strand and ends with the phrase “The student is expected to:” Knowledge and skills statements always include related student expectations.
Demonstrated Proficiency of ELA.2.7.A
Ask questions that will allow students to describe personal connections.
Sample questions:
What does this remind you of in your life?
How is this similar to your life? How is it different?
How does this relate to something that has happened to you or something you have learned?
How does this make you feel? Why?
Ask students to draw or write personal connections. Consider the relevancy of the connection(s) and the detail included in the writing or drawing about personal connections.
Glossary Support for ELA.2.7.A
When students explain personal connections they have made to something read, heard, or viewed, they are demonstrating how they have interpreted the explicit and implied ideas expressed. Personal connections are students' reactions to an idea and connections readers make between themselves and the sources.
Sources can be any communication medium. In second grade, they could includebooks, poems, digital texts, videos, illustrations, graphs, charts, emails, websites, or interviews with people.