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 Competency Goals:: 2: The learner will apply strategies and skills to comprehend text that is read, heard, and viewed.
Objectives:
2.01: Demonstrate sense of story (e.g., beginning, middle, end, characters, details). 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.