Curriculum-LA


 * Strands:** Oral Language, Written Language, and Other Media/Technology

Goal 1 ||~ The learner will develop and apply enabling strategies and skills to read and write. || Goal 2 ||~ The learner will develop and apply strategies and skills to comprehend text that is read, heard, and viewed. || Goal 3 ||~ The learner will make connections through the use of oral language, written language, and media and technology. || Goal 4 ||~ The learner will apply strategies and skills to create oral, written, and visual texts. || Goal 5 ||~ The learner will apply grammar and language conventions to communicate effectively. ||
 * ~ Competency
 * || **1.01** Develop book and print awareness: * identify the parts of books and function of each part.
 * demonstrate an understanding of directionality and voice-print match by following print word for word when listening to familiar text read aloud.
 * demonstrate an understanding of letters, words, sentence and story.
 * identify the title, name of the author and the name of the illustrator.
 * 1.02** Develop phonemic awareness and knowledge of alphabetic principle: * demonstrate understanding that spoken language is a sequence of identifiable speech sounds.
 * demonstrate understanding that the sequence of letters in the written word represents the sequence of sounds in the spoken word.
 * demonstrate understanding of the sounds of letters and understanding that words begin and end alike (onsets and rimes).
 * 1.03** Demonstrate decoding and word recognition strategies and skills: * recognize and name upper and lower case letters of the alphabet.
 * recognize some words by sight including a few common words, own name, and environmental print such as signs, labels, and trademarks.
 * recognize most beginning consonant letter-sound associations in one syllable words.
 * 1.04** Read or begin to read: * read or attempt to read own dictated story.
 * attempt to read/reads simple patterned text, decodable text, and/or predictable texts using letter-sound knowledge and pictures to construct meaning.
 * 1.05** Interact for at least 10 minutes daily with self-selected texts that are consistent with the student's independent reading level. ||
 * ~ Competency
 * || **2.01** Demonstrate sense of story (e.g., beginning, middle, end, characters, details and setting).
 * 2.02** Demonstrate familiarity with a variety of types of books and selections (e.g., picture books, caption books, short informational texts, nursery rhymes, word plays/finger plays, puppet plays, reenactments of familiar stories).
 * 2.03** Use preparation strategies to activate prior knowledge and experience before and during the reading of a text.
 * 2.04** Formulate questions that a text might answer before beginning to read (e.g., what will happen in this story, who might this be, where do you think this happens).
 * 2.05** Predict possible events in texts before and during reading.
 * 2.06** Understand and follow oral-graphic directions.
 * 2.07** Demonstrate understanding of literary language; e.g., "once upon a time" and other vocabulary specific to a genre.
 * 2.08** Distinguish fantasy from reality when reading text.
 * 2.09** Identify the sequence of events in a story. ||
 * ~ Competency
 * || **3.01** Connect information and events in text to experience.
 * 3.02** Discuss concepts and information in a text to clarify and extend knowledge.
 * 3.03** Associate target words with prior knowledge and explore an author's choice of words.
 * 3.04** Use speaking and listening skills and media to connect experiences and text: * listening to and re-visiting stories.
 * discussing, illustrating, and dramatizing stories.
 * discovering relationships. ||
 * ~ Competency
 * || **4.01** Use new vocabulary in own speech and writing.
 * 4.02** Use words that name and words that tell action in a variety of simple texts (e.g., oral retelling, written stories, lists, journal entries of personal experiences).
 * 4.03** Use words that describe color, size, and location in a variety of texts: e.g., oral retelling, written stories, lists, journal entries of personal experiences.
 * 4.04** Maintain conversation and discussions: * attending to oral presentations.
 * taking turns expressing ideas and asking questions.
 * 4.05** Use a variety of sentence patterns such as interrogative requests (Can you go with me?) and sentence fragments that convey emotion (Me, too!). * write from left to right and from top to bottom.
 * write most letters and some words when dictated.
 * 4.06** Write and/or participate in writing behaviors by using authors' models of language. ||
 * ~ Competency
 * || **5.01** Develop spelling strategies and skills by: * representing spoken language with temporary and/or conventional spelling.
 * writing most letters of the alphabet.
 * analyzing sounds in a word and writing dominant consonant letters.
 * 5.02** Use capital letters to write the word I and the first letter in own name.
 * 5.03** Use legible manuscript handwriting. ||