Students demonstrate the ability to understand (i.e., comprehend) the meaning and significance of facts, assertions, ideas, concepts, and theories acquired by listening, through experiential learning or by reading expository (e.g., essays, editorials, science textbooks) or literary (novels, plays poems) writings. They demonstrate understanding by: 1) Restating, paraphrasing, explaining, and summarizing facts, definitions, methods, rules, theories, and concepts. 2) Preparing and delivering explanatory and persuasive arguments and presentations. 3) Drawing distinctions and perceiving differences and similarities (i.e., comparing and contrasting). 4) Understanding the literal meaning and the implications of information conveyed in all forms of nonfiction writings (e.g., textbooks, diagrams, graphs, bus schedules, instruction manuals, schematics, and blueprints). 5) Interpreting the literal and symbolic meaning of various forms of literary writing. 6) Illustrating or simplifying information with pictures, diagrams, charts, and graphs. 7) Translating quantitative written statements verbal material to mathematical equations or visual representations (and vice versa).
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