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.K.6.C
Observe student responses in a whole-group, small-group, or individual setting. Track student understanding and progress through anecdotal notes or a checklist.
Example:
After reading an informational text about the sun to the class ask What is the sun? If a student responds a star, the teacher can say How do you know? The student would then be able to respond: I know because the story tells us right here that the sun is a star. The goal of this SE is to get students to go back to the text and find evidence to support their thinking as a strategy for increasing comprehension.
Notes:
When students respond to a text or a question about the text, a teacher can prompt the student to cite evidence by asking How did you decide that? or How do you know?
Students in kindergarten will most likely point to illustrations in the text or recall a part of what they heard to support their responses.
Glossary Support for ELA.K.6.C
In kindergarten, eliciting appropriate responses may require asking the students to point to the part in the text that supports a response, paraphrase the part in the text that supports the response, or asking a student to name the page number that supports the response.
Students are expected to use information taken directly from texts to justify their responses. It is important that students understand that their responses must be based on actual ideas presented in a reading piece and not on their personal opinions about the topic being discussed.
In kindergarten, text evidence may involve a student pointing to the part of the text that reinforces a response, or it may be paraphrasing a part in the story that supports their thinking.