QCC State Standards

1 Topic: Core Skills
Standard: Reads poems, short stories, essays, novels, magazines, newspapers, charts, graphs, and technical documents for
pleasure and self-improvement.
2 Topic: Core Skills
Standard: Reads critically, asks pertinent questions, recognizes assumptions and implications, and evaluates ideas.
3 Topic: Core Skills
Standard: Takes notes on the main and subordinate ideas in lectures and discussions and reports accurately what others
have said.
4 Topic: Core Skills
Standard: Uses research process: selecting topic, formulating questions, identifying key words, choosing sources,
skimming, paraphrasing, note-taking, organizing, summarizing, and presenting.
5 Topic: Core Skills
Standard: Identifies, comprehends, and summarizes the main and subordinate ideas in a written work.
6 Topic: Core Skills
Standard: Learns that words gather meaning from their context and carry connotation and denotation.
7 Topic: Core Skills
Standard: Distinguishes between fact and opinion.
8 Topic: Core Skills
Standard: Comprehends, develops, and uses specifics and generalizations.
9 Topic: Core Skills
Standard: Acquires new vocabulary through reading and listening; demonstrates progress through speaking and writing.
10 Topic: Core Skills
Standard: Uses literal comprehension skills (e.g., sequencing, explicitly stated main idea).
11 Topic: Core Skills
Standard: Uses inferential comprehension skills (e.g., predictions, comparisons, conclusions, implicitly stated main idea).
12 Topic: Core Skills
Standard: Defines unfamiliar words by using appropriate structural analysis skills including prefixes, suffixes, root words,
and context clues.
13 Topic: Core Skills
Standard: Uses a variety of print and non-print resources (e.g., films, recordings, theater, computer databases) as parts
of the study of literature.
14 Topic: Core Skills
Standard: Draws reasoned conclusions from various sources.
15 Topic: Core Skills
Standard: Writes Standard American English sentences with correct verb forms, punctuation, capitalization, possessives,
plural forms and other mechanics, word choice, and spelling.
16 Topic: Core Skills
Standard: Recognizes speaker's purpose and identifies verbal and nonverbal components of communication (body
language, facial expression, gestures).
17 Topic: Core Skills
Standard: Uses language appropriate to situation and audience.
18 Topic: Core skills
Standard: Participates in the writing process: prewriting, drafting, revising, editing, proofreading, and publishing.
19 Topic: Core Skills
Standard: Writes for many purposes including, but not limited to, personal (journals, diaries, stories, poems), social
(friendly letters, thank-you notes, invitations), academic (themes, reports, essays, analyses, critiques), and business
(letters, memos, and applications) writing.
20 Topic: Core Skills
Standard: Gains insight into human behavior from the study of literature.
21 Topic: Core Skills
Standard: Creates hypotheses and predicts outcomes.
22 Topic: Core Skills
Standard: Defends conclusions rationally.
23 Topic: Core Skills
Standard: Speaks so others can hear and understand.
24 Topic: Core Skills
Standard: Works as a team member to solve problems.
25 Topic: Core Skills
Standard: Composes and revises on a computer.
26 Topic: Critical Thinking
Standard: Recognizes analogies.
27 Topic: Critical Thinking
Standard: Constructs logical sequences and understands the conclusions to which they lead.
28 Topic: Critical Thinking
Standard: Recognizes that how to think is different from what to think; recognizes multiple valid interpretations; develops
and defends individual interpretations.
29 Topic: Reading/Literature
Standard: Reads independently and responds critically.
30 Topic: Reading/Literature
Standard: Evaluates and synthesizes a variety of written materials.
31 Topic: Reading/Literature
Standard: Reads critically, asks pertinent questions, recognizes assumptions and implications, and evaluates ideas within
time constraints.
32 Topic: Speaking/Listening
Standard: Conceives and develops ideas about topics for the purpose of speaking to a group, chooses and organizes
related ideas, presents them clearly in standard American English, and evaluates similar presentations by others.
33 Topic: Speaking/Listening
Standard: Presents arguments in orderly and convincing ways.
34 Topic: Writing/Usage/Grammar
Standard: Refines all areas of the writing process including prewriting, drafting, revising, editing, proofreading, and
publishing.
35 Topic: Writing/Usage/Grammar
Standard: Uses a variety of writing modes, including description, narration, exposition, and persuasion with emphasis on
expository writing.
36 Topic: Writing/Usage/Grammar
Standard: Refines the research process. Cites sources according to a standard style sheet (MLA, APA, or others).
37 Topic: Writing/Usage/Grammar
Standard: Is precise in punctuation, capitalization, spelling, and other elements of manuscript form.
38 Topic: Writing/Usage/Grammar
Standard: Synthesizes an idea from a text or an abstract concept and writes a response under time constraints.