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PI.8 Interacting in Meaningful Ways
- PI.8.A Collaborative
- PI.8.1 Exchanging information and ideas with others through oral collaborative discussions on a range of social and academic topics
- PI.8.2 Interacting with others in written English in various communicative forms (print, communicative technology, and multimedia)
- PI.8.3 Offering and justifying opinions, negotiating with and persuading others in communicative exchanges
- PI.8.4 Adapting language choices to various contexts (based on task, purpose, audience, and text type)
- PI.8.B Interpretive
- PI.8.5 Listening actively to spoken English in a range of social and academic contexts
- PI.8.6 Reading closely literary and informational texts and viewing multimedia to determine how meaning is conveyed explicitly and implicitly through language
- PI.8.7 Evaluating how well writers and speakers use language to support ideas and arguments with details or evidence depending on modality, text type, purpose, audience, topic, and content area
- PI.8.8 Analyzing how writers and speakers use vocabulary and other language resources for specific purposes (to explain, persuade, entertain, etc.) depending on modality, text type, purpose, audience, topic, and content area
- PI.8.C Productive
- PI.8.9 Expressing information and ideas in formal oral presentations on academic topics
- PI.8.10 Writing literary and informational texts to present, describe, and explain ideas and information, using appropriate technology
- PI.8.11 Justifying own arguments and evaluating others’ arguments in writing
- PI.8.12 Selecting and applying varied and precise vocabulary and language structures to effectively convey ideas
PII.8 Learning About How English Works
- PII.8.A Structuring Cohesive Texts
- PII.8.1 Understanding text structure
- PII.8.2 Understanding cohesion
- PII.8.B Expanding and Enriching Ideas
- PII.8.3 Using verbs and verb phrases
- PII.8.4 Using nouns and noun phrases
- PII.8.5 Modifying to add details
- PII.8.C Connecting and Condensing Ideas
- PII.8.6 Connecting ideas
- PII.8.7 Condensing ideas