New York State Learning Standards for English Language Arts:

Standard 1:Students will read, write, listen, and speak for information and 
understanding.   As listeners and readers, students will collect data, facts, 
and ideas; discover relationships, concepts, and generalizations; and use 
knowledge generated from oral, written, and electronically produced texts.  
As speakers and writers, they will use oral and written language to acquire, 
interpret, apply, and transmit information.

Standard 2:Students will read, write, listen, and speak for literary response 
and expression.   Students will read and listen to oral, written, and 
electronically produced texts and performances, relate texts and performances 
to their own lives, and develop an understanding of the diverse social, 
historical, and cultural dimensions the texts and performances represent.  As 
speakers and writers, students will use oral and written language for self-
expression and artistic creation.

Standard 3:Students will read, write, listen, and speak for critical analysis 
and evaluation.   As listeners and readers, students will analyze 
experiences, ideas, information and issues presented by others using a 
variety of established criteria.  As speakers and writers, they will present, 
in oral and written language and from a variety of perspectives, their 
opinions and judgments on experiences, ideas, information and issues.

Standard 4:Students will read, write, listen, and speak for social 
interaction.   Students will use oral and written language for effective 
social communication with a wide variety of people.  As readers and 
listeners, they will use the social communications of others to enrich their 
understanding of people and their views.