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Listening |
Speaking |
- Participate in shared listening experiences
- Listen attentively to a variety of oral texts for enjoyment and
information
- Follow step-by-step directions
- Listen to factual information and tell what was learned by answering
who, what, when, where, why, and how
- Make connections between texts, prior knowledge, and personal
experiences
- Construct meaning by using the language cueing systems in oral texts
including the phonemic system (hearing and segmenting initial, final,
and medial sounds)
- Retell stories by relating the sequence of story events
- Tell what is learned by answering who, what, when, where, why, and
how
- Reflect upon own listening skills and strategies
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- Participate in shared language experiences
(e.g., conversations, puppet plays, singing, chanting, finger plays,
storytelling, choral speech activities)
- Talk about ideas, experiences, and preferences related to texts and
familiar topics
- Share ideas and experiences in large and small groups
- Recognize that speakers have a purpose for speaking
- Make comments, ask and answer questions related to topics under
discussion, and ask questions to gather information from others
- Retell interesting or important aspects of favourite or familiar
topics and stories
- Talk to a familiar audience about topics of interest
- Experiment with the rhythms and sounds of language
- Reflect upon own speaking skills and strategies
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Reading |
Writing |
- Participate in shared and guided reading experiences
- Participate in individual, small group, and whole class reading of
texts for emergent and early developing readers
- Read many narrative and informational texts with supportive text
features and recognize a variety of forms, such as plays and poems
- Predict what text is about based on title, pictures, and background
information presented by teacher
- Attempt and practise reading behaviours
- Make connections between text, prior knowledge, and personal
experiences
- Use the cueing systems in text to construct meaning
- Use pictionaries and word wall as aids
- Begin to self-correct
- Identify ideas and information to make sense
- Appreciate repetition, rhyme, and other interesting uses of
language
- Retell simple stories and informational texts
- Share feelings evoked by particular texts
- Reflect upon own reading skills and strategies
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- Participate in language experience, and patterned, shared, and guided
writing
- Recognize that writers have purposes for writing
- Write stories and short informational texts with pictures about
familiar events and experiences
- Use, with teacher support, a writing process
- Reread to ensure ideas make sense and add more information if
necessary
- Read and share writing with others
- Develop and demonstrate an understanding of written language
conventions including:
- write simple statements, showing awareness of capital letters and
periods
- know that words have conventional spellings
- use a mixture of temporary (phonetic) and conventional
spellings
- spell common sight words and some one-syllable words
phonetically
- Print legibly and space letters, words, and sentences
appropriately
- Refer to classroom resources (e.g., word wall) to assist with and
verify spelling
- Reflect upon own writing skills and strategies
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Viewing |
Representing |
- Participate in shared and guided viewing experiences
- Use visual cueing systems in text to construct meaning
- Share feelings and moods evoked by a variety of visual texts
- Interpret illustrations and photographs
- Interpret simple graphs and diagrams
- Reflect upon own viewing skills and strategies such as looking for
important details, and discovering similarities and differences in
visual texts
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- Use drama, pictures, sounds, simple charts, models, and drawings to
illustrate and represent experiences and understanding
- Contribute ideas from personal experiences for group and shared
representations
- Consider a variety of ways of representing events, ideas, and
information
- Recognize that representations have a purpose
- Reflect upon own representing skills and strategies by checking
details and the meaning portrayed by
representations
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