Skills for School & Life
Instructor: Marcie Howard, Horizon Middle School, Room 234
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Power Standards
Grade 6 ELA Standards
ELA-06.SL.01.c
Pose and respond to specific questions with elaboration and detail by making comments that contribute to the topic, text, or issue under discussion.
ELA-06.W.10
Write routinely over extended time frames (time for research, reflection, and revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of discipline-specific tasks, purposes, and audiences
Grade 6 Health Standards
HTL.MS.06.04.01
Describe social skills for building and maintaining positive relationships at school, work, and home
HTL.MS.06.05.01
Develop goals to sustain or improve personal health practices
HTL.MS.06.05.02
Describe the consequences of decisions regarding health behaviors (i.e. decision making skills)
Grade 7 ELA Standards
ELA.07.SL.01.c
Pose questions that elicit elaboration and respond to others’ questions and comments with relevant observations and ideas that bring the discussion back on topic as needed.
ELA.07.W.10
Write routinely over extended time frames (time for research, reflection, and revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of discipline-specific tasks, purposes, and audiences
Grade 7-8 Health Standards
HTL.MS.07-08.04.01
Describe effective verbal and nonverbal communication skills to enhance health
HTL.MS.07.08.05.01
Identify ways in which personal health goals can be influenced by abilities, priorities, and responsibilities
HTL.MS.07-08.05.02
Identify the steps of the decision making process
Grade 8 ELA Standards
ELA.08.SL.01.c
Pose questions that connect the ideas of several speakers and elicit elaboration, and respond to others’ questions and comments with relevant evidence, observations, and ideas.
ELA.08.W.10
Write routinely over extended time frames (time for research, reflection, and revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of discipline-specific tasks, purposes, and audiences.
Successful School and Life Skills (WMS, HMS)
Power Standards