Standards

Content Standard 4: Composing and arranging music within specified guidelines

Achievement Standard: Students create and arrange music to accompany readings or dramatizations Students use a variety of sound sources when composing

National Standards for Arts Education ( ArtsEdge of J.F.Kennedy Center)

Content Standard 1: Understanding and applying media, techniques, and processes 

Achievement Standard: Students use different media, techniques, and processes to communicate ideas, experiences, and stories

National Standards for Arts Education ( ArtsEdge of J.F.Kennedy Center)

Content Standard 1: Script writing by planning and recording improvisations based on personal experience and heritage, imagination, literature, and history

 

Achievement Standard: Students improvise dialogue to tell stories, and formalize improvisations by writing or recording the dialogue

 

Content Standard 2: Acting by assuming roles and interacting in improvisations 

 
Achievement Standard: Students use variations of locomotor and nonlocomotor movement and vocal pitch, tempo, and tone for different characters

 

Students assume roles that exhibit concentration and contribute to the action of classroom dramatizations based on personal experience and heritage, imagination, literature, and history

National Standards for Arts Education ( ArtsEdge of J.F.Kennedy Center)

Standard 1:Uses the general skills and strategies of the writing process

 

8. Writes for different purposes (e.g., to entertain, inform, learn, communicate ideas)

5. Uses strategies (e.g., adapts focus, organization, point of view; determines knowledge and interests of audience) to write for different audiences (e.g., self, peers, teachers, adults)

6. Uses strategies (e.g., adapts focus, point of view, organization, form) to write for a variety of purposes (e.g., to inform, entertain, explain, describe, record ideas)

Standard 8: Uses listening and speaking strategies for different purposes 

 

1. Makes contributions in class and group discussions (e.g., reports on ideas and personal knowledge about a topic, initiates conversations, connects ideas and experiences with those of others)

Grades 3-5 

1. Contributes to group discussions

Standard 9: Uses viewing skills and strategies to understand and interpret visual media 

 

1. Understands the main idea or message in visual media (e.g., pictures, cartoons, weather reports on television, newspaper photographs, visual narratives)

1. Understands different messages conveyed through visual media (e.g., main ideas and supporting details; facts and opinions; main characters, setting, and sequence of events in visual narratives)

McRel National Education Standards