Performance Indicator - ELA.8.L.1.A:
Students recall significant ideas and details and the relationships between and among them.

Performance Indicator - ELA.8.L.1.B:
Students identify missing, conflicting, or unclear information.

Performance Indicator - ELA.8.L.1.C:
Students draw conclusions and make inferences on the basis of explicit and implied information.

Performance Indicator - ELA.8.L.1.D:
Students recognize that the speaker's voice and delivery impact communication.

Performance Indicator - ELA.8.L.2.A:
Students listen to class lectures, and small group and classroom discussions, to comprehend, interpret, and critique literary text.

Performance Indicator - ELA.8.L.2.B:
Students identify how the author's choice of words, use of characterization, and use of other literary devices affect the listener's interpretation of the oral text.

Performance Indicator - ELA.8.L.2.C:
Students identify how the poet's use of repetition, rhythm, and rhyming patterns affects the listener's interpretation of poetry.

Performance Indicator - ELA.8.L.2.D:
Students recognize social, historical, and cultural features in presentation of literary texts.

Performance Indicator - ELA.8.L.3.A:
Students form an opinion or judgment about the validity and accuracy of information, ideas, opinions, issues, themes, and experiences.

Performance Indicator - ELA.8.L.3.B:
Students recognize persuasive techniques, such as emotional and ethical appeals, in presentations.

Performance Indicator - ELA.8.L.3.C:
Students consider the experience, qualifications, and possible biases of speakers in analyzing and evaluating presentations.

Performance Indicator - ELA.8.L.3.D:
Students identify conflicting, missing, or unclear information.

Performance Indicator - ELA.8.L.3.E:
Students suspend judgment until all information has been presented.

Performance Indicator - ELA.8.L.3.F:
Students evaluate the quality of the speaker's presentation style by using criteria such as voice quality, enunciation, and delivery.

Performance Indicator - ELA.8.L.4.A:
Students participate as a listener in social conversation with one or more people who are friends or acquaintances.

Performance Indicator - ELA.8.L.4.B:
Students respect the age, gender, social position, and cultural traditions of the speaker.

Performance Indicator - ELA.8.L.4.C:
Students listen for more than one level of meaning, articulated and unspoken.

Performance Indicator - ELA.8.L.4.D:
Students encourage the speaker with appropriate facial expressions and gestures.

Performance Indicator - ELA.8.L.4.E:
Students withhold judgment.

Performance Indicator - ELA.8.L.4.F:
Students appreciate the speaker's uniqueness.