ILLINOIS LEARNING STANDARDS

For Language Arts*

English Language Arts

State Goal 1: Read with understanding and fluency.

1B Students who meet the standard can apply reading strategies to improve understanding and fluency.

PaperToolsPro™ helps students develop understanding and fluency:

• Ideas Page lists keyword history to help generate questions and predictions for further reading.
• Descriptors and keywords for each note relates to ideas from all sources on Ideas Page.
• Notes from reading are typed into text boxes for quotations or notes in own words; words in own words can be compared to original quotation.

1C Students who meet the standard can comprehend a broad range of reading materials.

1C1 Use preview questions and predictions to guide reading across complex materials and confirm or deny predictions.

1C5 Critically evaluate information from multiple sources.

1C6 Summarize and make generalizations from content and relate them to the purpose of the material.

PaperToolsPro™ helps students develop comprehension:

• Ideas Page lists keyword history to help generate questions for predictions for further reading.
• Ideas Page, expanded and formed into a sentence outline, provides framework into which notes are copy/pasted or drag/dropped to support ideas in outline; the writer composes the paper around this material using information from their reading to explain and support what they read.
• Idea Page lists ideas from all sources used so researched material can be easily seen, synthesized, and evaluated.
• Evaluating Sources from Resources menu helps evaluate and choose good and appropriate sources from a broad range of information.
• Text box for notes in own words is used for summaries and paraphrases.

State Goal 2: Read and understand literature representative of various cultures, eras, and ideas.

2B Students who meet the standard can read and interpret a variety of literary works.

PaperToolsPro™ helps students interpret the variety of sources they use:

• Notes put own words require engagement with text.
• Thesis statement text box gives focus to connections between various texts used.
• Ideas Page lists ideas from all sources used so connections between ideas are easily seen and made.

State Goal 3: Write to communicate for a variety of purposes.

3A. Students who meet the standard can use correct grammar, spelling, punctuation, capitalization, and sentence structure.

3B3 Use appropriate style manuals and guides (e.g., MLA, APA)

PaperToolsPro™ helps students correctly use appropriate style manual guides:

Bibliography information is entered in text boxes that are provided for each kind of source; from these entries PaperToolsPro™ creates bibliography/ works cited lists and citations in MLA, APA, ACS, CBE, AAAS, and Chicago style formats.

3B Students who meet the standard can compose well-organized and coherent writing for specific purposes and audiences.

3B2 Compose a clear thesis/claim that contains the main idea in an essay.

3B3 Communicate the intended message.

3B4 Elaborate ideas.

3B8 Publish writing using an appropriate format.

PaperToolsPro™ helps students compose well-developed and coherent writing:

• Thesis statement text box keeps the focus of the entire paper in front of the writer.
• Notes are written with thesis statement always present.
• Notes as quotations or in own words gather information for ideas and elaboration of ideas.
• Ideas Page provides the skeleton for the paper on which notes can be copy/pasted or drag/dropped from PaperToolsPro™ and around which the writer composes the paper in a word processing program.
• Bibliography information is entered in text boxes that are provided for each kind of source; from these entries PaperToolsPro™ creates bibliography/ works cited lists and citations in MLA, APA, ACS, CBE, AAAS, and Chicago style formats.

3C Students who meet the standard can communicate ideas in writing to accomplish a variety of purposes.

3C2 Compose an argumentative paper that objectively evaluates 2 or more positions on an issue and selects the best position, based on the evidence presented.

PaperToolsPro™ helps students communicate ideas in writing for a variety of purposes:

• If expository essay requires research,  PaperToolsPro™ provides the means to compose multi-paragraph essay through the multiple steps of pre-writing and drafting of the essay.
• Thesis statement text box entry keeps focus on one position of the persuasive piece.
• Ideas Page listing of ideas makes choosing supporting arguments and evidence easy.

State Goal 5: Use language arts to acquire, assess and communicate information.

5A Students who meet the standard can locate, organize, and use information from various sources to answer questions, solve problems, and communicate ideas.

5A2 Distinguish among kinds of information needed to solve a problem, present possible solutions, or extend information about a topic or problem.
5A3 Evaluate a number of informational sources for relevancy and accuracy.

5A4 Develop, collect, and analyze various kinds of information related to a topic.

5A4 Follow appropriate style manual accurately (e.g., APA, MLA).

PaperToolsPro™ helps students obtain and use information from various sources for many reasons and cite their sources:

• Evaluating Sources from Resources menu helps evaluate and choose good and appropriate sources—paper or electronic—that contain the kind of information needed.
• Note taking ability in PaperToolsPro™ allows user to gather information from an unlimited number of sources from all kinds of paper and electronic sources.
• Bibliography information is entered in text boxes that are provided for each kind of source; from these entries PaperToolsPro™ creates bibliography/ works cited lists and citations in MLA, APA, ACS, CBE, AAAS, and Chicago Style formats.

5B Students who meet the standard can analyze and evaluate information acquired from various sources.

5B4 Cite the source(s) of all direct quotations and paraphrased/summarized information.

5B5 Develop a bibliography and a source(s) cited page using an appropriate format.

PaperToolsPro™ helps students cite sources and develop bibliographies:

• Bibliography information is entered in text boxes that are provided for each kind of source; from these entries PaperToolsPro™ automatically creates citations in MLA, APA, ACS, CBE, AAAS, and Chicago style formats for every note entry.
• Every note requires a source before the next note can be entered.
• Bibliography information is entered in text boxes that are provided for each kind of source; from these entries PaperToolsPro™ automatically creates bibliography/works cited lists in MLA, APA, ACS, CBE, AAAS, and Chicago style formats.

5C Students who meet the standard can apply acquired information, concepts and ideas to communicate in a variety of formats.

5C1 Use multiple, reliable sources to develop and support major ideas in oral or multimedia presentations.

5C2 Choose, evaluate, and use multiple primary and secondary sources.

5C4 Design and present a project that effectively communicates the intended message.

• that organizes around a structure appropriate to purpose, audience, and context.
• that elaborates ideas through facts, details, description, analysis, and narration.
• that cites or credits sources appropriately.

PaperToolsPro™ helps students acquire information, use it for a variety of purposes, and document sources:

• PaperToolsPro™ provides the note taking ability to gather information from multiple sources.
• Note taking ability in PaperToolsPro™ allows user to gather information from an unlimited number of sources from all kinds of paper and electronic sources.
• Note taking process of PaperToolsPro™ engages the student in higher level thinking of the text because information is put in own words.
• User analyzes, evaluates, and synthesizes researched information when creating the Ideas Page.
• Thesis statement helps maintain intended purpose of the project.
• Thesis statement and Ideas Page provides the means to organize project around its purpose.
• Notes taken from researched information provides details for elaborating ideas in the outline.
• Idea Page provides the skeleton for the paper on which notes can be copy/pasted or drag/dropped from PaperToolsPro™ and around which the writer composes the paper in a word processing program.
• Bibliography information is entered in text boxes that are provided for each kind of source; from these entries PaperToolsPro™ creates bibliography/ works cited lists and citations in MLA, APA, ACS, CBE, AAAS, and Chicago style formats.

* Illinois Learning Standards: Stage J – English Language Arts. 04-APR-2005 < http://www.isbe.net/ils/ela/stage_J/descriptor.htm>