- Listen attentively to a range of texts for pleasure and
information
- Listen attentively and courteously to each other and to guest
speakers
- Listen to and follow three-step oral directions
- Connect new ideas, information, and experiences to own and others’
ideas and experiences
- Use the language cueing systems in oral text to construct
meaning
- Identify the main ideas and important details
- Recognize the difference between an opinion and a verifiable
fact
- Explain own point of view and consider others’ views
- Identify personal accomplishments and set goals for improvement of
own listening skills and strategies
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- Participate in a variety of shared language experiences (e.g.,
reader’s theatre, choral speaking, role play) and give brief recitations
and oral presentations about familiar topics
- Distinguish between opinions and verifiable facts, and ask questions
to clarify meaning
- Retell stories and experiences in own words using appropriate
sequence and including sufficient detail
- Share and explain information about a particular topic for a
particular purpose
- Explain own point of view and give reasons
- Select from a range of word choices and use simple sentence patterns
to communicate ideas and information
- Identify personal accomplishments and set goals for improvement of
own speaking skills and strategies
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- Select and read grade-appropriate texts orally and silently with
increasing confidence, fluency, and accuracy
- Select appropriate books independently and consider books
recommended by others
- Move comfortably from oral to silent reading
- Connect new ideas, information, and experiences to own and others’
ideas and experiences
- Monitor for meaning during oral and silent reading
- Apply cueing systems to construct meaning
- Begin to develop word attack strategies
- Identify major points from fiction and nonfiction texts
- Use writer’s signals to locate important information from texts
(e.g., headings, bold type, diagrams)
- Reread to confirm and extend understanding
- Recognize fact and opinion, main idea and supporting details, and
cause and effect in nonfiction
- Identify personal accomplishments and set goals for improvement of
own reading habits, skills, and strategies
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- Write personal narratives, descriptions, letters, invitations,
thank-you notes, reports, and poems
- Begin to express an appreciation for how writers use language to
affect their audience
- Identify and use a variety of organizational patterns for prose,
poetry, and dramas
- Use all phases of a writing process (with some guidance)
- Write clear introductions and conclusions
- Organize ideas to make sense for self and others
- Develop and demonstrate an understanding of written language
conventions including:
- use complete sentences with proper capitalization
- spell many high frequency words correctly and use a strategy to
learn to spell new words
- punctuate with periods, exclamation marks, question marks, and
commas in series, dates, and addresses
- Revise to accommodate new ideas and information
- Identify personal accomplishments and set goals
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- Participate in a range of guided and independent viewing experiences
from a variety of cultural traditions
- Compare ideas presented in different visual texts by using prior
knowledge and predictions
- Express preferences for particular visual texts
- Support personal opinion, insights, and conclusions with examples
and evidence
- Use visual cues to predict and confirm meaning
- Identify key ideas, details, and point of view in visual texts
- Respond to and discuss meanings and ideas in visual texts from
various cultures and communities
- Identify personal accomplishments and set goals
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- Use a variety of verbal and visual features to enhance
communication
- Demonstrate understanding of new concepts in novel or interesting
ways
- Choose from a variety of forms (e.g., puppet plays, reader’s
theatre, narrative stories) to communicate for a particular purpose and
to a particular audience
- Use graphic organizers to develop and arrange ideas
- Use print and non-print aids to illustrate key ideas and
information
- Identify personal accomplishments and set goals for improvement of
own representing skills and
strategies
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