Deeper reading response: A template for teachers

English Language Arts (2004)

Grade 1

• Goal 2: The learner will develop and apply strategies and skills to comprehend text that is read, heard, and viewed.
  • 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 2.04: Use preparation strategies to anticipate vocabulary of a text and to connect prior knowledge and experiences to a new text.
  • Objective 2.05: Predict and explain what will happen next in stories.
• Goal 3: The learner will make connections through the use of oral language, written language, and media and technology.
  • Objective 3.04: Share personal experiences and responses to experiences with text:
    • publishing non-print texts.
    • discussing interpretations.
    • recording personal responses.
• Goal 4: The learner will apply strategies and skills to create oral, written, and visual texts.
  • Objective 4.05: Write and/or participate in writing by using an author's model of language and extending the model (e.g., writing different ending for a story, composing an innovation of a poem).

Grade 2

• 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 2.07: Discuss similarities and differences in events, characters and concepts within and across texts.
• Goal 3: The learner will make connections through the use of oral language, written language, and media and technology.
  • Objective 3.02: Connect and compare information within and across selections (fiction, nonfiction, poetry and drama) to experience and knowledge.
  • Objective 3.04: Increase oral and written vocabulary by listening, discussing, and composing texts when responding to literature that is read and heard. (e.g., read aloud by teacher, literature circles, interest groups, book clubs).

Kindergarten

• Goal 1: The learner will develop and apply enabling strategies to read and write.
  • Objective 1.01: Develop book and print awareness:
    • identify the parts of books and function of each part.
    • demonstrate an understanding of directionality and voice-print match by following print word for word when listening to familiar text read aloud.
    • demonstrate an understanding of letters, words, and story.
    • identify the title, name of the author and the name of the illustrator.
• Goal 2: The learner will develop and apply strategies and skills to comprehend text that is read, heard, and viewed.
  • Objective 2.01: Demonstrate sense of story (e.g., beginning, middle, end, characters, details).
  • Objective 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).
  • Objective 2.05: Predict possible events in texts before and during reading.
• Goal 3: The learner will make connections through the use of oral language, written language, and media and technology.
  • Objective 3.04: Use speaking and listening skills and media to connect experiences and text
    • listening to and re-visiting stories
    • discussing, illustrating, and dramatizing stories
    • discovering relationships.