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Number: HE.8.B.4
Title: Interpersonal Communication - Demonstrate the ability to use interpersonal-communication skills to enhance health and avoid or reduce health risks
Type:
Standard
Subject: Health Education
Grade: 8
Strand: Health Literacy Responsible Behavior
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This cluster includes the following benchmarks.
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This cluster includes the following access points.
Independent
HE.8.B.4.In.a
Identify strategies for effective verbal and nonverbal communication with family, peers, and others to enhance health, such as refusal skills, nonverbal communication, and asking questions.
HE.8.B.4.In.c
Describe possible causes of conflict among youth in schools and communities, such as relationships, territory, and jealousy.
HE.8.B.4.In.d
Describe ways to ask for and offer assistance to enhance the health of self and others, such as asking for help, getting help for others, and listening actively.
Supported
HE.8.B.4.Su.a
Identify selected strategies for effective verbal and nonverbal communication with family, peers, and others to enhance health, such as refusal skills, nonverbal communication, and asking questions.
HE.8.B.4.Su.c
Identify a possible cause of conflict among youth in schools and communities, such as relationships, territory, or jealousy.
HE.8.B.4.Su.d
Choose an effective way to ask for and offer assistance to enhance the health of self and others, such as asking for help, getting help for others, or listening actively.
Participatory
HE.8.B.4.Pa.a
Use a selected strategy to use effective verbal and nonverbal communication to enhance health, such as using refusal skills or nonverbal communication, or asking questions.
HE.8.B.4.Pa.c
Recognize a possible cause of conflict among youth in schools or communities, such as relationships, territory, or jealousy.
HE.8.B.4.Pa.d
Recognize positive ways to ask for and offer assistance to enhance the health of self and others, such as asking for help, getting help for others, or listening actively.
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