Language for Information and Understanding ELA
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Adult Goal 1: Learners will write a variety of texts for diverse purposes, both personal and otherwise. WRITING

OBJECTIVES EXAMPLES
Objective A: Learners will write for different purposes.
  • Write to satisfy personal and family writing needs.
  • Write to satisfy own or children's schooling and community needs.
  • Write to satisfy work needs, communicating thoughts, ideas, information, and messages.
Objective B: Learners will write a variety of texts using different forms of writing.
  • Write notes, personal and formal letters, stories, poems, journal entries, invitations, and other forms of writing for a personal-, school-, or community-related context.
  • Write documents such as letters, directions, manuals, memos, reports, forms, a resume, and other types of written expression for a work-related context.
Objective C: Learners will write a variety of texts using different methods of development.
  • Write to express personal feelings, reactions, values, interests, or attitudes in texts such as a friendly letter, a poem, a response to literature, and an autobiographical sketch.
  • Write to narrate a fictional story or account of real events such as a short story, a fable, a folktale, a skit, a script, and a story of personal experience.
  • Write to explain factual information understandably in texts such as directions, a book report, a news article, a caption, an invitation, a business letter, a research report, and a telegram.
  • Write to persuade change in the opinion or actions of the audience in texts such as an editorial, a speech, an essay, an advertisement, and a review of a book, play, or movie.
  • Write to describe images or impressions vividly in texts such as a composition depicting a real or imaginary event or comparing and contrasting places of interest, a classified ad, and an advertisement or the personals' column.
  • Write to expand personal knowledge on subjects of interest in texts such as research reports, personal journals, journal entries in reaction to reading materials, family histories, and investigative articles.

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