English Language Arts and Reading.3.7.G

The student is expected to

discuss specific ideas in the text that are important to the meaning.

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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 3.1.C with SE 3.7.G and assess both SEs at the same time. With SE 3.1.C, students speak coherently about the topic under discussion, employing eye contact, speaking rate, volume, enunciation, and the conventions of language to communicate ideas effectively. While working in small groups, have students read and discuss a text to determine specific ideas that are important to the meaning. A teacher may also wish to incorporate SE 3.6.G and ask students to evaluate details from the text to determine the key ideas. All students must participate in the discussion and communicate their ideas effectively.

Further Explanation

This SE requires students to identify the ideas in the text that best represent the text’s overall meaning. In order to demonstrate their understanding of what the meaning of the text is, students must first determine which parts of the text express ideas that would convey the meaning.

Students should be provided opportunities to talk or write about the connections between specific ideas in a text and how those ideas contribute to meaning. Hearing other points of view and sharing theirs can help students confirm their own connections and inferences, consider the complexities of an idea, or determine that they have misinterpreted information and need to revisit the text to establish a better understanding.
Students should be able to identify and talk about the ideas in the text that best represent its overall stated or implied meaning. If students truly understand the meaning of the text, they should be able to determine what parts of the text express ideas that would convey this meaning to someone wanting to know what the text was about.