Performance Indicator - ELA.9.S.1.A:
Students prepare and give presentations on a range of informational topics.

Performance Indicator - ELA.9.S.1.B:
Students use notes or speaking points to assist in delivery.

Performance Indicator - ELA.9.S.1.C:
Students express a point of view, providing supporting facts.

Performance Indicator - ELA.9.S.1.D:
Students give directions and explain a process.

Performance Indicator - ELA.9.S.2.A:
Students express opinions and support them through references to the text:

• engage in a variety of collaborative conversations, such as peer-led discussions, paired reading and responding, and cooperative group discussions, to construct meaning

Performance Indicator - ELA.9.S.2.B:
Students describe the features of the genre to interpret and respond to literary text.

Performance Indicator - ELA.9.S.2.C:
Students use literary devices, such as volume, rate, rhyme, rhythm, and repetition, to create an emotional or aesthetic response.

Performance Indicator - ELA.9.S.2.D:
Students use media to support presentation of original and interpretive texts.

Performance Indicator - ELA.9.S.2.E:
Students ask and respond to questions and follow-up questions to clarify interpretation:

• engage in a variety of collaborative conversations, such as peer-led discussions, paired reading and responding, and cooperative group discussions, to make applications of the ideas in the text to other situations, extending the ideas to broaded perspectives

Performance Indicator - ELA.9.S.3.A:
Students express opinions or make judgments about ideas, information, experiences, and issues in literary and historical articles.

Performance Indicator - ELA.9.S.3.B:
Students articulate personal opinions to clarify stated positions.

Performance Indicator - ELA.9.S.3.C:
Students present content that is clearly organized and based on knowledge of audience needs and interests.

Performance Indicator - ELA.9.S.3.D:
Students present arguments from different perspectives.

Performance Indicator - ELA.9.S.3.E:
Students speak extemporaneously to clarify or elaborate.

Performance Indicator - ELA.9.S.3.F:
Students respond to constructive criticism.

Performance Indicator - ELA.9.S.3.G:
Students use visuals and technology to enhance presentation.

Performance Indicator - ELA.9.S.3.H:
Students ask and respond to questions to seek clarity.

Performance Indicator - ELA.9.S.4.A:
Students speaking informally with familiar and unfamiliar people, individually and in group settings.

Performance Indicator - ELA.9.S.4.B:
Students respect the age, gender, social position, and cultural traditions of the listener.

Performance Indicator - ELA.9.S.4.C:
Students provide feedback by asking questions designed to encourage further conversation.

Performance Indicator - ELA.9.S.4.D:
Students respond to the listener's interests, needs, and reactions to social conversations.

Performance Indicator - ELA.9.S.4.E:
Students use courtesy; for example, avoid sarcasm, ridicule, dominating the conversation, and interrupting.

Performance Indicator - ELA.9.S.4.F:
Students select language and behavior appropriate to the purpose, occasion, and listener.

Performance Indicator - ELA.9.S.4.G:
Students adopt the conventions of email to establish friendly tone in electronic-based social communication.

Performance Indicator - ELA.9.S.4.H:
Students respond respectfully.