New Brunswick

Interactions

• Expression

  • Describe and communicate thoughts, feelings, and experiences as well as personal strengths.

    • Describe observations, understandings, viewpoints and perspectives

      • Determine the author's point of view (8-D.1)

    • Communicate personal strengths giving reasons

  • Defend and support ideas and opinions with evidence.

    • Justify personal position citing evidence

      • Choose evidence to support a claim (8-L.2)

    • Identify difference of opinion citing facts, anecdotal evidence, and experiences

      • Identify counterclaims (8-L.5)

    • Communicate persuasively citing evidence free from generalizations and bias

      • Distinguish facts from opinions (8-L.1)

  • Evaluate and present content to communicate facts, ideas, and opinions.

    • Select information, topics, and theme that support their purpose

    • Support ideas with evidence

      • Choose evidence to support a claim (8-L.2)
      • Identify supporting details in informational texts (8-L.3)
      • Identify supporting details in literary texts (8-L.4)

    • Use credible information to support or refute ideas and opinions

    • Present with intention, using source content and language to influence the audience

      • Which sentence is more formal? (8-C.2)
      • Positive and negative connotation (8-T.2)

  • Use language of harmony and respect, self-monitoring and adjusting as appropriate.

    • Describe helpful, respectful, and equitable language

    • Use language that demonstrates consideration for the feelings of others

    • Use language that is not hurtful or offensive

    • Identify examples of prejudice, stereotyping, or bias in oral language and the negative effect on individuals and cultures

    • Use bias-free language

    • Use inclusive language that respects gender identity

    • Use language that demonstrates cultural sensitivity and respect

• Exchanges

  • Seek and respond to questions to clarify or explain ideas, concepts, problems, and solutions.

    • Participate in inquisitive questioning by asking questions and responding to others

    • Ask clarifying questions to seek further information and determine next steps

    • Seek outside resources to support ideas, concepts, or claims

    • Ask pondering questions to extend ideas, rather than to seek a definitive answer

  • Give and respond to a variety of directions and instructions.

    • Give multi-step and increasingly complex instructions

    • Follow multi-step and increasingly complex instruction

    • Clarify processes, routines, and order of sequence or operation

  • Understand communication conventions for a diverse set of audiences.

    • Communicate with sensitivity and respect

    • Select and adjust language to reflect an understanding of the audience perspective, context, and purpose

      • Which sentence is more formal? (8-C.2)
      • Positive and negative connotation (8-T.2)

  • Respond personally and critically to a variety of text.

    • Respond and react to oral presentations, stories, and multimodal text by challenging ideas and communicating thoughts or opinions

    • Respond to oral presentations, stories, and multimodal text citing incomplete information, outstanding questions, and possibilities for further elaboration

  • Adjust interactions to reflect the situation, audience, and purpose.

    • Identify appropriate conventions for specific types of interactions

    • Use conversational conventions that are respectful of the needs, rights, and feelings of others

    • Engage in active listening

    • Communicate a next step or response to negotiate

• Reception

  • Critically reflect on the contributions of others to extend understanding.

    • Determine what information is important, relevant, and worthy of further consideration

    • Identify the perspective implicit within a speaker's contribution

    • Recognize that spoken language reveals values and attitudes such as bias, beliefs, and prejudice

    • Understand how language is used to influence and manipulate

      • Positive and negative connotation (8-T.2)