Are English language arts learning standards applicable to all content areas?
Success in school and in life is determined in large part by competence in language. As a significant means for developing students’ abilities to use their minds well, language is a central factor in learning for all students and in all disciplines. Thinking creatively, making informed and reasoned judgments, producing and inventing, critiquing and analyzing – all are facilitated through language. As a lifelong resource, skillful use of language is valued in all areas of our lives in which we participate – as adults, as parents, as workers, and as members of social and civic organizations. In fact, skillful use of language may be the single most important means of realizing the overarching goal of education.
Reading, writing, listening, and speaking have connections to all content areas. Success in school and in life is determined in large part by competence in language. As a significant means for developing students’ abilities to use their minds well, language is a central factor in learning for all students and in all disciplines. Thinking creatively, making informed and reasoned judgments, producing and inventing, critiquing and analyzing – all are facilitated through language. As a lifelong resource, skillful use of language is valued in all areas of our lives in which we participate – as adults, as parents, as workers, and as members of social and civic organizations. In fact, skillful use of language may be the single most important means of realizing the overarching goal of education.
