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  **Skills           **Kindergarten**      **Grade 1**           **Grade 2**
  Addressed**                                                    

  **Understanding    With teacher          With minimal teacher  Students should be
  Poetry**           assistance, students  prompts, students     able to listen to a
                     should be able to     should be able to     rhyming poem and
                     listen to a rhyming   listen to a rhyming   verbalize its theme
                     poem and verbalize    poem and verbalize    or subject, as well
                     its theme or subject. its theme or subject, as show recognition
                                           as well as show       of any inferences in
                                           recognition of any    it and who the
                                           inferences in it.     speaker is.

  **Auditory         With teacher prompts, With minimal teacher  Students should be
  Perception and     students should be    prompts, students     able to identify all
  Discrimination**   able to identify at   should be able to     of the rhyming words
                     least two rhyming     identify all of the   in a poem by using a
                     words in a poem by    rhyming words in a    physical movement,
                     using a physical      poem by using a       such as clapping or
                     movement, such as     physical movement,    jumping.
                     clapping or jumping.  such as clapping or   
                                           jumping.              

  **Oral Language    When listening to a   Students should be    Students should be
  Development**      familiar rhyming      able to supply a      able to provide at
                     story or poem,        rhyming word or words least two alternate
                     students should be    to finish a poem or   rhyming words where
                     able to offer one     story sentence for a  a word or words are
                     correct rhyming word  story or poem that    removed from the end
                     to complete a poem or they have just heard  of a poem or story
                     story sentence with   for the first time.   that they have just
                     minimal teacher                             heard for the first
                     assistance.                                 time.

  **Spelling         With minimal teacher  Students should be    Students should be
  Patterns**         assistance, students  able to identify a    able to write a list
                     should be able to     rhyming word family   of at least two
                     identify a rhyming    when they hear a list rhyming words when
                     word family when they of two rhyming words  given a single
                     hear two rhyming      and one non-rhyming   rhyming word prompt.
                     words.                word.                 

  **Vocabulary       Students should be    Students should be    Students should be
  Development**      able to show an       able to show an       able to verbalize an
                     understanding of what understanding of what understanding of
                     a syllable is by      a syllable is by      what a syllable is,
                     clapping or vocally   clapping or vocally   clap or vocally note
                     noting the syllabic   noting the syllabic   the syllabic beats
                     beats in two          beats in two          in a list of three
                     different two- or     different two- or     two- or
                     three-syllable words. three-syllable words. three-syllable
                                                                 words, and come up
                                                                 with their own list
                                                                 of three
                                                                 two-syllable words.

  **Creative         Using prompts from    With minimal teacher  Students should be
  Writing**          the teacher, students assistance, students  able to write their
                     should be able to     should be able to     own poem of at least
                     verbalize a familiar  write or dictate      three lines that
                     person, place,        their own poem of at  uses fantasy or
                     object, or event as a least three lines.    made-up people,
                     contribution to a                           places, and events.
                     group/collaborative                         
                     poem.                                       

  **Literature       Students should       Students should       Students should
  Exploration**      listen to nursery     listen to nursery     listen to nursery
                     rhymes, nonsense      rhymes, nonsense      rhymes, nonsense
                     poems, and haiku, and poems, and haiku, and poems, and haiku,
                     be able to verbalize  be able to verbalize  choose a favorite,
                     why one is their      why one is their      and be able to
                     favorite.             favorite and which    reasonably emulate
                                           they think is the     one of these poetry
                                           hardest to write.     styles in their own
                                                                 original poetic
                                                                 writing.

  **Cross-Cultural   With minimal teacher  Students should be    Students should be
  Connections**      assistance, students  able to express that  able to express the
                     should be able to     haiku usually         three basic rules of
                     listen to a haiku and describes something   haiku, and that it
                     verbalize its         that is happening in  originated in Japan.
                     subject.              nature and that haiku They will also
                                           is a type of poetry   express the
                                           that originated in    differences between
                                           Japan.                a haiku and nursery
                                                                 rhyme or silly poem.

  **Artistic         With teacher          With minimal teacher  Students should act
  Expression**       assistance, students  assistance, students  out a poem they have
                     should re-tell a      should re-tell a      written, using props
                     familiar poem as a    collaborative/group   and puppetry as a
                     group, using props    poem, using props and medium.
                     and puppets as a      puppetry as a medium. 
                     medium.                                     
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