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Knowledge and Skills Statement

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.

A teacher may wish to pair SE 3.7.D with SE 3.7.F and assess both SEs at the same time. With SE 3.7.D, students retell and paraphrase texts in ways that maintain meaning and logical order. While reading a text, identify important vocabulary that is new to students. After reading the text, provide students with a graphic organizer to help organize their retelling of the text. Support students by having them share their retelling and/or paraphrasing of the text and include the new vocabulary. Encourage students to use the newly acquired vocabulary in various class discussions across content.

Further Explanation

This SE requires students to use newly acquired vocabulary to correctly to express their understanding about content from the text. This task will provide students with an opportunity to practice using new vocabulary when paraphrasing texts using their own words.

Words are linked to certain domains and concepts. By using newly acquired vocabulary correctly, students can express their understanding about objects, events, and processes. For example, correctly using terms such as magnetism and gravity during a discussion of an informational science text about force demonstrates that a student recognizes how these forces act on objects. The use of specific vocabulary allows students to make more detailed analyses.