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Standards:: 1: Students will listen, speak, read, and write in English for information and understanding.
Performance Indicators:
1. Identify and use basic reading and listening strategies to make text comprehensible and meaningful. Such strategies include predicting; previewing; reviewing; recognizing sight words, listening selectively; listening for a specific purpose; listening for main ideas and details; using context clues, cognates, and an understanding of letter-sound relationships.
2. Read, gather, view, listen to, organize, and discuss information from various sources. Such sources include story and picture books, audio and media presentations, and oral interviews.
3. Select information appropriate to the purpose of the investigation.
4. Compare, contrast, and categorize to gain a deeper understanding of information and objects.
5. Formulate, ask, and respond to questions to obtain and provide information and meaning.
6. Formulate and share opinions about information and ideas with reference to features in oral and written text such as details and facts.
7. Present information clearly in oral and graphic forms. Such forms include retelling, paraphrases, stories, letters, posters, picture summaries, and other graphics.
8. Present ideas clearly in oral, graphic, or written form.
9. Convey information, using some organizational patterns and structures. Such patterns and structures include chronological order, rhyming patterns, and similarities and differences.
10. Demonstrate a basic understanding of facts.
11. Express and develop ideas and understanding using some elements of the "writing process" such as wordmapping, brainstorming, drawing, and writing letters, words, and simple sentences.
12. Become familiar with some conventions of American English. Such conventions include grammar, pronunciation, spelling, punctuation, and capitalization.
13. Engage in collaborative activities through a variety of student groupings to gather, share, discuss, and present information. Such groupings include small groups, and interest groups.
14. Consult print and nonprint resources (e.g., audio/visual media, family) in the native language when needed.
15. Apply self-monitoring and self-correcting strategies for language production. Such strategies include referring to illustrations, asking questions, starting over, rephrasing, and exploring alternative ways of saying things.
16. Apply learning strategies to acquire information and make oral and written texts comprehensible and meaningful. Such strategies include asking questions and using prior knowledge, graphic organizers, context cues and cognates.