Content standards

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Broadly stated expectations of what students should know and be able to do in particular subjects and (grade) levels. Content standards define for teachers, schools, students, and the community not only the expected student skills and knowledge, but what programs should teach. For example, in Equipped for the Future (EFF), there are 16 content standards or skills, each containing key aspects which are essential for being able to apply the skills to real tasks or activities. "Read With Understanding," then, entails: determining the reading purpose, selecting reading strategies appropriate to that purpose, monitoring comprehension and adjusting reading strategies, analyzing the information and reflecting on its underlying meaning, and integrating it with prior knowledge to address reading purpose. In Massachusetts' Curriculum Frameworks (http://www.doe.mass.edu/acls/), each of the disciplines contains its own set of broader standards (The Massachusetts Common Core of Learning), as well as its own set of strands. The strands in English Language Arts (ELA) then, are reading, writing, oral communication, and critical thinking. Under reading, there are six levels of standards around symbol mastery, phonology and decoding, word recognition, and comprehension.

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