Reading
Writing
Students will be able to: Students will be able to: • Know print conveys meaning • Know writing conveys meaning • Associates sounds with written words • Know pictures convey meaning • Know what a letter is • Know writing consists of letters and words • Know what a number is • Can point to the words on a page • Know what a word is • Can point to the letters on a page • Distinguishes between letters and numbers • Know words consist of a combination of letters and sounds • Distinguishes between numbers and words • Can point to the individual letters in their name • Know pictures/illustrations convey meaning • Represents stories and experiences through pictures • Know a book is held upright • Can dictate a story from a picture they have drawn • Know a book has a front cover • Pretend to read own writing • Know a book has a back cover • Can point to and read their marks on a page • Know a book contains pages • Use various early writing skills to express ideas (e.g., scribble writing, random symbols, random letter-‐like marks) • Know the pages in a book are turned from front to back • Express ideas through dictation • Know the pages in a book are turned one page at a time • Dictate a story, including a beginning, middle, and end • Know print is read from left to right • Dictate a personal narrative • Know print is read from top to bottom • Know writing can be used for different purposes (e.g., to make lists, • Know a book has a front cover make cards, to send messages, to write stories) • Know a book has a back cover • Know there are different forms of writing (e.g., journals, sign-‐in • Know a book is read from front to sheets, name cards, cards with words and pictures, charts) • Know some letters/sounds of the alphabet • Know how to trace own name • Know how to spell own name • Know the letters/sounds in own name • Recognize own name in print • Know how to copy own name • Know letters, labels and storybooks contain print • Know how to write own name • Know print can tell a story and be informative • Explore a variety of writing tools and materials • Know labels, letters, and storybooks serve a particular purpose • Hold writing tools correctly • Show interest in reading signs, labels and logos (environmental print) • Know meaning of familiar environmental print • Know meaning of various traffic signs • Use illustrations to predict story events • Use illustrations to predict story outcomes • Pretend to read to self and others • Begin to choose reading material and has favorites (e.g., books, magazines and charts) • Know a title is the name of a book • Know an author writes books • Know an illustrator draws the pictures in a book • Use pictures to aid comprehension about content • Know a story has a beginning, middle, and end • Know a factual account is real and true • Know a fictional account is not real or true • Know stories may be similar to personal experiences
Speaking & Listening Students will be able to: • Speak clearly and audibly • Use expressive language skills • Use appropriate voice level when speaking • Use descriptive words • Use new vocabulary to describe feelings and thoughts • Use new vocabulary to describe experiences • Use new vocabulary to describe observations • Use words to describe color, size and shape • Tell a simple personal narrative • Retell or create a story using the special language of storybooks e.g., "Once upon a time") • Ask relevant questions • Answer questions appropriately • Know it is appropriate to take turns while talking • Talk about one topic for several turns with a peer or adult • Listen to gain and share information • Listen to perform a task • Listen for enjoyment • Listen to learn what happened in a story • Listen to converse with an adult or peer • Respond appropriately in conversation • Adapt language to meet different social and situational needs • Understand spoken directions • Follow one-‐step spoken directions • Follow two-‐step spoken directions • Follow three-‐step spoken directions • Understand a varied listening and speaking vocabulary • Hear and discriminate the sounds of language in the environment • Know what a rhyme is • Recognize matching sounds and rhyme Listens to fiction, rhymes, songs, non-‐fiction, poetry, and drama