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Academic Expectation
1. The Cranston High School West graduate will exhibit proficient communication skills through reading, writing, listening, and speaking.

Targeted Achievement: 1.3 Demonstrate active listening.

RUBRIC
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Levels of Performance
Criteria
Exemplary
Proficient
Emerging
Beginning
Indicators
Participate in one-to-one conference with teacher Processes both simple and multiple directions for specific information; effectively reiterates and/or paraphrases. Appropriately responds to questions with elaboration; contributes to information to improve understanding. Processes both simple and multiple directions for specific information; reiterates and/or paraphrases. Appropriately responds to questions with elaboration. With prompting contributes to information to improve understanding. Attempts to processes both simple and multiple directions for specific information with teacher assistance. Attempts to reiterate and/or paraphrase. Responds to questions with elaboration with teacher prompting. Cannot follow either simple or multiple directions for specific information with teacher assistance. With prompting, reiterates and/or paraphrases and cannot respond to questions.
Participate in group meetings/
classes
Listens courteously to the contributions of others in small and large groups. Expands on a response and makes connections to prior or new knowledge. Listens courteously to the contributions of others in small and large groups. Expands and makes connections to prior or new knowledge on a response when directly asked. Experiences difficulty listening courteously to the contributions of others in small and large groups. Limited ability to expand on a response and/or make connections. Does not listen courteously to the contributions of others in small and large groups. Fails to expand to a response and/or make connections.
Listen in order to analyze a public speaking performance Determines speaker's motives, goals, and feelings; distinguishes between fact and opinion; accurately summarizes essence of speaker's remarks and formulates a judgment about the issues under discussion. Determines speaker's motives, goals, and feelings; distinguishes between fact and opinion;. can summarize speaker's remarks. Attempts to determine speaker's motives, goals, and feelings with limited success; distinguishes between fact and opinion with teacher assistance;. cannot summarize speaker's remarks. Cannot determine speaker's motives, goals, and feelings; cannot distinguish between fact and opinion; cannot summarize speaker's remarks.
         
Cranston High School West / Cranston Area Career and Technical Center
School-Wide Expectations for Student Learning / Targeted Achievement Rubrics
Revised spring 2005
 
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