1.1 The student will continue to demonstrate growth in the use of oral language. a) Listen and respond to a variety of electronic media and other age-appropriate materials. b) Tell and retell stories and events in logical order. c) Participate in a variety of oral language activities, including choral speaking and reciting short poems, rhymes, songs, and stories with repeated patterns. d) Participate in creative dramatics. e) Express ideas orally in complete sentences. UNDERSTANDING THE STANDARD (Teacher Notes) ESSENTIAL UNDERSTANDINGS ESSENTIAL KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND PROCESSES The intent of this standard is that students will continue to demonstrate growth in the use of oral language and vocabulary by listening to and discussing a variety of texts that reflect the Virginia Standards of Learning in English, history and social science, science, and mathematics. Students should have opportunities to interact with a variety of electronic media and participate in numerous oral language activities. Students should be engaged in activities that encourage the use of complete sentences and include the telling or retelling of stories and events in logical order. All students should understand that oral language is used to communicate a variety of ideas for a variety of purposes. To be successful with this standard, students are expected to produce complete sentences when appropriate to task and situation. participate in a variety of oral language activities, such as: listening to stories and poems read aloud daily; participating in discussions about stories and poems; talking about words and their meanings as they are encountered in stories, poems, and conversations; giving reactions to stories and poems; asking and answering questions about what is said in order to gather additional information or clarify something not understood; verbally express ideas and feelings; and describe people, places, things, and events with details. tell and retell stories and events in logical order by: retelling stories orally and through informal drama; dictating retelling of stories; indicating first, next, and last events in a story; and creating their own stories, poems, plays, and songs. participate in daily oral language activities (e.g., choral speaking and the reciting of short poems, rhymes, songs, and stories with repeated patterns). participate in creative dramatics, (e.g., classroom songs, plays, skits, and group activities) designed to give students frequent opportunities for listening and speaking. speak to one another, and listen to each other at appropriate times during lessons.
with a vowel, it has only a rime. Many words are formed by combining onsets and rimes (back, jack, sack, pack). (Note: Students are not expected to know these terms.) Alphabet letters written between /slashes/ refer to their pronunciation (e.g., /sh/ refers to the initial sound heard in the word sugar). read and spell commonly used sight words.
1.9 The student will read and demonstrate comprehension of a variety of fictional texts. a) Preview the selection. b) Set a purpose for reading. c) Relate previous experiences to what is read. d) Make and confirm predictions. e) Ask and answer who, what, when, where, why, and how questions about what is read. f) Identify characters, setting, and important events. g) Retell stories and events, using beginning, middle, and end. h) Identify the main idea or theme. i) Read and reread familiar stories, poems, and passages with fluency, accuracy, and meaningful expression. UNDERSTANDING THE STANDARD (Teacher Notes) ESSENTIAL UNDERSTANDINGS ESSENTIAL KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND PROCESSES The intent of this standard is that students will build fluency and experience success as readers while reading aloud and will begin to develop and demonstrate comprehension skills by reading a variety of fiction and poetry selections. Students will demonstrate comprehension of story elements in fiction and poetry selections by identifying the character, setting, and topic or main idea. Students will continue to learn to relate their prior knowledge to the topic of the text and use this knowledge and information from the text to make and confirm predictions as well as to ask and answer questions. Teachers should read a wide range of fiction and nonfiction texts aloud and explain differences between books that tell stories and books that provide information. All students should understand that they should use a variety of strategies to assist with comprehension. understand that orally read text has a rhythm and expression that helps convey meaning. To be successful with this standard, students are expected to preview reading material by looking at the book’s cover and illustrations and by reading titles and headings. set a purpose for reading by looking at the illustrations, activating prior knowledge, and predicting the outcome of the selection. identify who is telling the story at various points in a text. use knowledge from their own experience to make sense of and talk about a text. draw on prior knowledge to make and confirm predictions before, during, and after reading. ask and answer simple questions (e.g., who, what, when, where, why, and how) about a selection. identify and describe characters, settings, and important events in a story using details. use illustrations and details to describe characters, settings, and important events in a story. demonstrate comprehension by retelling stories and events orally or in writing, using beginning, middle, and end structure, and demonstrating comprehension of the central message or lesson.