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Listening |
Speaking |
- Listen attentively, courteously, and purposefully to a range of
texts from a variety of cultural traditions for pleasure and
information
- Listen to and follow three and four-step oral directions
- Activate and build upon prior knowledge and experiences
- Set purpose and predict what presentation might be about
- Formulate general and specific questions to identify information
needs
- Use the language cueing systems in oral text to construct
meaning
- Make inferences and draw conclusions
- Set goals to develop further own listening skills and
strategies
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- Participate in a variety of shared language experiences (e.g.,
dramatization, role play, interviewing)
- Share ideas, observations, and experiences courteously during
structured small and large group talk, and fulfil own role as a group
member
- Prepare and present narrative presentations that establish a
situation, point of view, setting, and relate events in an effective
sequence
- Prepare and present talks and oral reports to engage and inform an
audience
- Experiment with words and sentence patterns to create interest and
variety
- Use language appropriate to audience, purpose, and situation
- Set goals to develop further own speaking skills and
strategies
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Reading |
Writing |
- Orally and silently, read a range of contemporary and classical
grade-appropriate texts for enjoyment and information
- Adapt reading process and strategies for different purposes
- Answer inquiry or research questions using a variety of information
sources
- Build connections among previous experiences, prior knowledge, and a
variety of texts
- Confirm understanding and self-correct when necessary
- Apply cueing systems to construct meaning
- Understand a variety of forms and genres
- Recognize organizational patterns of texts
- Support opinions with evidence from text
- Compare information from different sources
- Identify how and why word structures change meaning
- Make judgements and draw conclusions
- Set goals to enhance development of own reading habits, skills, and
strategies
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- Write narratives, explanations, stories, and researched reports with
increasing confidence, clarity, and fluency
- Write single and multiple-paragraph compositions
- Provide sufficient details to support main point
- Organize ideas in an appropriate sequence
- Develop and demonstrate an understanding of written language
conventions including:
- indent paragraphs
- use complete and well-formed sentences with proper capitalization
and end punctuation
- extend understanding of punctuation marks to include the use of the
colon in time and lists, quotation marks for speakers and titles, and
correct use of apostrophes and commas
- use common conjunctions and transitional words (e.g., and, then,
next)
- spell correctly common words and use a strategy to learn to spell
new words
- Write legibly using correct letter formation and consistent size and
spacing
- Set goals to develop further own writing skills
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Viewing |
Representing |
- Participate in a variety of guided and independent viewing
experiences from a variety of cultural traditions
- Recognize point of view and biases in visual texts
- Use various visual texts to find information (e.g., the Internet,
illustrated print text, television, video)
- Distinguish between fact and opinion
- Begin to understand that a visual text represents a perspective
- Begin to recognize persuasive techniques in visual texts
- Use the visual cueing systems in text to construct and confirm
meaning and identify key ideas
- Set goals to develop further own viewing skills
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- Convey ideas and information using a variety of media and formats
including illustrations, dramatizations, tableaux, diagrams,
three-dimensional objects, etc.
- Use graphic organizers (e.g., story map, time line, summary chart)
to clarify and shape understanding
- Choose images, words, and sounds appropriate to audience, purpose,
and effect
- Use appropriate visual aids to enhance spoken and written
communication
- Prepare organized multimedia presentations using pre-established
organizers and criteria
- Set goals to develop further own representing skills and
strategies
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