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North Carolina Curriculum Alignment

English Language Arts (2004)

Grade 1

• Goal 1: The learner will develop and apply enabling strategies and skills to read and write.
  • Objective 1.02: Demonstrate decoding and word recognition strategies and skills:
    • generate the sounds from all the letters and appropriate letter patterns which should include consonant blends and long and short vowel patterns.
    • use phonics knowledge of sound-letter relationships to decode regular one-syllable words when reading words and text.
    • recognize many high frequency and/or common irregularly spelled words in text (e.g., have said, where, two).
    • read compound words and contractions.
    • read inflectional forms (e.g., -s, -ed, -ing) and root words (e.g., looks, looked, looking).
    • read appropriate word families.
• Goal 2: The learner will develop and apply strategies and skills to comprehend text that is read, heard, and viewed.
  • Objective 2.01: Read aloud independently with fluency and comprehension any text that is appropriately designed for emergent readers.
  • Objective 2.02: Demonstrate familiarity with a variety of texts (storybooks, short chapter books, newspapers, telephone books, and everyday print such as signs and labels, poems, word plays using alliteration and rhyme, skits and short plays).
  • Objective 2.03: Read and comprehend both fiction and nonfiction text appropriate for grade one using:
    • prior knowledge.
    • summary.
    • questions.
    • graphic organizers.
  • Objective 2.04: Use preparation strategies to anticipate vocabulary of a text and to connect prior knowledge and experiences to a new text.
• Goal 3: The learner will make connections through the use of oral language, written language, and media and technology.
  • Objective 3.03: Discuss unfamiliar oral and/or written vocabulary after listening to or reading texts.
• Goal 4: The learner will apply strategies and skills to create oral, written, and visual texts.
  • Objective 4.01: Select and use new vocabulary and language structures in both speech and writing contexts (e.g., oral retelling using exclamatory phrases to accent an idea or event).
  • Objective 4.02: Use words that name characters and settings (who, where) and words that tell action and events (what happened, what did ___ do) in simple texts.

Grade 2

• Goal 1: The learner will develop and apply enabling strategies and skills to read and write.
  • Objective 1.02: Read most high frequency and many irregularly spelled words accurately in text.
• Goal 2: The learner will develop and apply strategies and skills to comprehend text that is read, heard, and viewed.
  • Objective 2.01: Read and comprehend both narrative and expository text appropriate for grade two by:
    • determining purpose (reader's and author's).
    • making predictions.
    • asking questions.
    • locating information for specific reasons/purposes.
    • recognizing and applying text structure.
    • comprehending and evaluating author's decisions and word choice.
    • determining fact and opinion.
    • recognizing and comprehending figurative language.
    • making inferences and drawing conclusions.
  • Objective 2.02: Use text for a variety of functions, including literary, informational, and practical.
• Goal 3: The learner will make connections through the use of oral language, written language, and media and technology.
  • Objective 3.03: Explain and describe new concepts and information in own words (e.g., plot, setting, major events, characters, author's message, connections, topic, key vocabulary, key concepts, text features).
• Goal 4: The learner will apply strategies and skills to create oral, written, and visual texts.
  • Objective 4.03: Read aloud with fluency and expression any text appropriate for early independent readers.
  • Objective 4.05: Respond appropriately when participating in group discourse by adapting language and communication behaviors to the situation to accomplish a specific purpose.
  • Objective 4.09: Use media and technology to enhance the presentation of information to an audience for a specific purpose.

Kindergarten

• Goal 2: The learner will develop and apply strategies and skills to comprehend text that is read, heard, and viewed.
  • Objective 2.03: Use preparation strategies to activate prior knowledge and experience before and during the reading of a text.
• Goal 3: The learner will make connections through the use of oral language, written language, and media and technology.
  • Objective 3.03: Associate target words with prior knowledge and explore an author's choice of words.