Reading
Writing
Students at this level use general skills and strategies of the reading process to understand and interpret a variety of literary texts
Students at this level use the skills and strategies of the writing process while incorporating aspects and conventions of writing.
Students will be able to: •Use basic elements of phonetic analysis to decode unknown words, including: common letter/sound relationships, vowel sounds, blends, and word patterns to decode unknown words, and beginning consonants. •Develop reading comprehension strategies, including: using mental images based on pictures and print to aid in comprehension of text, using story topic, titles to make predictions about content, action, events, and character’s behavior. •Use a picture dictionary to determine word meaning and understands words for people, places, things, actions, and high frequency words. •Use self-‐correction strategies, including reading the sentence again, skipping the difficult part, reading to the period then go back and fixing the error. •Read a variety of literature, including fairy tales, fiction, picture books, poems, non-‐fiction, fables, myths, folktales, and informational texts. •Know the basic characteristics of familiar genres such as, setting, main characters, main events, problems, and the main ideas of a story. • Summarize and retell information in own words.
Students will be able to: •Use the skills and strategies of the writing process to draft, revise, edit, and publish written work. •Use phonetically spelled words to describe familiar persons, places, objects, and experiences. •Use conventional spelling for common words. •Use letter combinations when writing words, including consonant blend patterns and long vowel patterns. •Write in a variety of forms or genres including narratives of personal experiences, responses to literature, picture books, stories, information pieces, invitations, and friendly letters. •Writes for different purposes including: to communicate ideas, to inform, and to reflect on an experience. •Apply a variety of descriptive words to writing. •Use conventions of print in writing including margins in writing. •Understand the purpose of capitalization (proper nouns). •Use nouns and verbs in written compositions. •Use words that answer where, how and when questions. •Uses a variety of sources to gather information, including observations, pictures, information books, Internet, guest speakers, videos.
Speaking & Listening
Students at this level use listening and speaking strategies for different purposes.
Students will be able to: •Make contributions in class and group discussions. •Take turns in conversations or group discussions. •Stay on topic in conversations or group discussions •Initiates conversations. •Connect experiences with those of others. •Asks and responds to questions. •Recite and respond to familiar stories, poems, and rhymes with patterns. •Know and use a variety of descriptive words to report on personal knowledge and ideas about topic. •Use appropriate voice level, phrasing, and intonation for different situations, types of discussions (formal and informal). •Uses words that describe people, places, events, things, and locations. •Recites and responds to familiar stories and poems, and rhymes with patterns. •Knows differences between language used at home and language used in school.