READING:

1.  Students read and understand a variety of materials.

4.  Students apply thinking skills to their reading, writing, speaking, listening, and viewing.

5.  Students read to locate, select, and make use of relevant information from a variety of media, references, and technological sources.

6.  Students read and recognize literature as a record of human experience.

WRITING:

2.  Students write and speak for a variety of purposes and audiences.

3.  Students write and speak using conventional grammar, usage, sentence structure, punctuation, capitalization, and spelling.