CCSS for Speaking and Listening

By this website, I was most surprised by the vagueness of the topics. The fact that it covers English Language Arts and Literacy, History and Social Studies, Science, and Technical subjects, and that it should prepare all students for college, career and life seemed like too broad a range of ideas to cover in one section of Common Core Standards. In order to sort of narrow it down for myself, I tried to process the standards in sections, starting by clicking on each grade separately in the Speaking and Listening section. 
For sixth grade, the standards are pretty simple. The students just need to be able to basically organize their ideas and process them, use technology, and multitask. In 7th grade, I found it most important that the students have to learn how to be collaborative and appropriately contribute to group work and group discussion. They also need to know how to research and apply the information to their work effectively. Eighth grade focused more on preparedness and background knowledge and how the students apply it to individual work as well as discussion. They also have to learn how to develop their analytical skills. Grades 9-10 get a little bit more advanced, emphasizing on decision making and integrating many different aspects to their discussions. Grades 11-12 make all of these skills learned in the previous years come together and the students are supposed to be able to create educated and intelligent discussions with each other and the teacher using research, arguments, and listening skills. I find that these grades (11-12) would be the most fun to teach because the students are quite advanced and ready to discuss harder material and back up their opinions with research and educated opinions. 

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