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: letters of the alphabet, common letter/sound relationships to decode unknown words, and beginning consonants. •Develop reading comprehension strategies, including: meaning clues, using pictures, making predictions, and self to text connections •Use reading skills and strategies to understand a variety of familiar literary passages and texts, including nursery rhymes, predictable books, signs, non-‐fiction, •Understands level-‐appropriate sight words and vocabulary •Uses self-‐correction strategies and asks for help with reading •Knows elements of the story, including: setting, main characters, main events, sequence, and problems
Students will be able to: Uses the skills and strategies of the writing process to: •Draws pictures to generate ideas •Incorporates illustrations to match print •Add details to pictures •Demonstrate ability to do simple editing •Demonstrate some proper use of conventions including, writing from left to right and top to bottom, use of letter-‐sound relationships and short vowel patterns to spell words, and capitalization of first and last names and first word of sentence. •Form letters in print using upper and lowercase letters, proper spacing
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 •Initiates conversations •Connect experiences with those of others •Make contributions in class discussions •Recite and respond to familiar stories, poems, and rhymes with patterns •Know and use a variety of descriptive words