Performance Indicator - ELA.9.L.1.A:
Students interpret information from media presentations, such as news broadcasts and taped interviews.

Performance Indicator - ELA.9.L.1.B:
Students listen to and follow complex directions or instructions.

Performance Indicator - ELA.9.L.1.C:
Students identify the speaker's purpose and motive for communicating information.

Performance Indicator - ELA.9.L.1.D:
Students recognize appropriate voice and tone.

Performance Indicator - ELA.9.L.2.A:
Students interpret and respond to texts and performances from a variety of genres, authors, and subjects.

Performance Indicator - ELA.9.L.2.B:
Students respond to authors' reading and discussing their works.

Performance Indicator - ELA.9.L.2.C:
Students recognize features of literary genres in interpreting presentations of literary text.

Performance Indicator - ELA.9.L.2.D:
Students recognize historical and contemporary social and cultural conditions in presentation of literary texts.

Performance Indicator - ELA.9.L.2.E:
Students connect literary texts to prior knowledge, personal experience, and contemporary situations.

Performance Indicator - ELA.9.L.2.F:
Students identify multiple levels of meaning in presentation of literary texts.

Performance Indicator - ELA.9.L.3.A:
Students recognize and acknowledge various perspectives on issues of local and national concern.

Performance Indicator - ELA.9.L.3.B:
Students determine points of view.

Performance Indicator - ELA.9.L.3.C:
Students use prior knowledge, as well as the perspectives of other individuals, groups, and recognized experts, to analyze and evaluate presentations.

Performance Indicator - ELA.9.L.3.D:
Students evaluate the content and organization of the presentations, applying criteria such as point of view and appropriateness and completeness of reasons, examples, and details.

Performance Indicator - ELA.9.L.3.E:
Students evaluate the possible bias of the speaker, in order to judge the validity of the content.

Performance Indicator - ELA.9.L.3.F:
Students recognize the use of protocols and traditional practices in public speaking.

Performance Indicator - ELA.9.L.4.A:
Students participate as a listener in social conversation with one or more people who are friends, acquaintances, or strangers.

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

Performance Indicator - ELA.9.L.4.C:
Students listen for multiple levels of meaning, articulated and unspoken.

Performance Indicator - ELA.9.L.4.D:
Students encourage the speaker with appropriate facial expressions and gestures.

Performance Indicator - ELA.9.L.4.E:
Students withhold judgment.

Performance Indicator - ELA.9.L.4.F:
Students appreciate the speaker's uniqueness.