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The NCTE/IRA link for the Standards is broken. Please use the link below to access those standards. @http://www.ncte.org/standards

For the Standards portion of your portfolio, please visit one of the links for Standards (state, core, or national) and complete a review via a table that you may upload to the wiki page. Choose 5 standards. Write each standard and then discuss your concerns, supports, beliefs, etc. about the Standard's viability, validity, possibility, etc. Follow the format below:

Students use spoken, written, and visual language to accomplish their own purposes (e.g., for learning, enjoyment, persuasion, and the exchange of information). || I strongly support this standard. Students need to understand, apply, and use all aspects of language for their own puposes and needs. They should be able to share their opinions so long as they can support those opinions. This standard is viable and reliable but, in actuality, I'm not sure that educators promote or even allow such use in classrooms. We have become so conditioned to teaching very specific state-mandated objectives that we often forget to let students use language for enjoyment or, sadly, sometimes learning. ||
 * ==Standard== || ==Response== ||
 * NCTE/IRA National Standards - Standard 12

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