Intended Learning Outcomes: English Language Arts
What are Intended Learning Outcomes (ILO's)? ILO's are statements about what the students know, understand and can do with their knowledge. ILO's also have the students show what they feel and believe based on their learning experiences. These can be written for a particular standard, topic or for the duration of an entire school year.
Learning Outcomes and Objectives Students will show: what they know. (knowledge) What they can do. (practice) what they feel or believe. (attitude)
Examples of Learning Outcomes: Communication: Students will be able to communicate effectively in writing, graphically, grammatically and orally. Research Skills: Students will conduct and design research in which the data will be evaluated critically by the student.
Characteristics of ILO's ILO's must be: Observable Measurable Done by the learner
Observable ILO's Observable actions or behaviors on the part of the student that shows that the intended learning objective has been done. ILO's should specify both an observable behavior and the object of that behavior.
Example: Students will be able to write a research paper in the appropriate scientific style. This example includes the behavior the object in the ILO.
Measurable ILO's: They use verbs to indicate how the student will be assessed. Focus should be on what the student should do and not on what the instructor teaches. The reflect on what the student should be able to do at the END of the course and not what they do during the course. They can usually be assessed in more than one way. They can be understood by someone outside the discipline.
ILO's are to be done by the learner: This is best done through ongoing formative assessments and questioning.
So what do Utah's ELA Standards cover? Reading: Literature Informational text Foundational Skills Writing Speaking and Listening Language
Reading ILO's Literature Students will refer explicitly to details in a text as a basis for answers and drawing inferences. Recount and summarize the main ideas of fables, folktales, myths to explain the meaning or moral taught in a story. Use character traits, settings and story events to describe characters in a story. Use context clues from a story to help determine the meaning of words and phrases used in a text. Use compare and contrast methods to distinguish the different points of view of the authors, readers or characters.
More Literature ILO's Students will distinguish between first and third person narrations. Explain how text and illustrations help convey the mood, emphasize aspects of a character or setting. Read and comprehend grade level texts.
Reading: Informational ILO's Identify and retell the main ideas and details of a text. Ask and answer questions about the main ideas of a text. Describe connections between two or more ideas in an informational text. Ask and answer questions to help determine the meanings of words in a text. Use illustrations and details in a text to help clarify meaning.
Informational ILO's Cont'd: Identify the author's purpose and perspective in an informational text. Compare and contrast firsthand and secondhand accounts of the same event. Integrate information from two texts on the same subject, in order to write or speak on the subject knowledgeably. Read and comprehend grade level informational texts including, social studies, science and technical texts.
Reading Foundational Skills ILO's: Know and apply grade level phonics and analysis to decode words. Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension. grade level texts. read grade level poetry with appropriate rate and expression. use context to confirm or self-correct to aid comprehension.
Writing ILO's: Student will be able to write an opinion piece supporting a point of view with reasons and information. Introduce a topic provide reasons provide concluding statements Students will be able to write informative/explanatory texts to examine and convey ideas clearly.
Writing ILO's Cont'd: Students will be able to write narratives texts using appropriate sequencing and descriptive details. Students will be able to strengthen writing through the editing process. Use available technologies to to conduct research and produce and publish writing. Write routinely over extended periods of time. (a single sitting to a day or two)
Speaking and Listening ILO's: Engage in collaborative discussions to build other's ideas as well as your own. Carry out assigned roles in a discussion. Pose and respond to specific questions to clarify information in a discussion. Paraphrase portions of a read aloud text or information presented in other mediums. Differentiate between context that call for formal English and situations where informal English is appropriate.
Language ILO's: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar. Use relative pronouns and adverbs. Use progressive verb tense. Correctly order adjectives within sentences. correctly form and use prepositional phrases. Produce complete sentences. Correctly use homophones. Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation and spelling when writing.
Language ILO's Cont'd: Student's correctly use knowledge of language and its' conventions when writing, speaking or listening. Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships and nuances in word meanings.