Shared poetry reading: Teaching print concepts, rhyme, and vocabulary

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 1.01: Develop phonemic awareness and demonstrate knowledge of alphabetic principle:
    • count syllables in a word.
    • blend the phonemes of one-syllable words.
    • segment the phonemes of one-syllable words.
    • change the beginning, middle, and ending sounds to produce new words.
    • create and state a series of rhyming words that may include consonant blends (e.g., flag, brag).
  • 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.
  • Objective 1.05: Increase vocabulary, concepts, and reading stamina by reading self-selected texts independently for 15 minutes daily. Self-selected texts should be consistent with the student's independent reading level.
• 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).
• Goal 3: The learner will make connections through the use of oral language, written language, and media and technology.
  • Objective 3.01: Elaborate on how information and events connect to life experiences.
  • Objective 3.02: Recognize and relate similar vocabulary use and concepts across experiences with texts.
  • 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 4.06: Compose a variety of products (e.g., stories, journal entries, letters, response logs, simple poems, oral retellings).
• Goal 5: The learner will apply grammar and language conventions to communicate effectively.
  • Objective 5.01: Use phonic knowledge and basic patterns (e.g., an, ee, ake) to spell correctly three-and four-letter words.
  • Objective 5.04: Use complete sentences to write simple texts.
  • Objective 5.05: Use basic capitalization and punctuation
    • first word in a sentence.
    • proper names.
    • period to end declarative sentence.
    • question mark to end interrogative sentence.

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.
  • Objective 1.03: Demonstrate decoding and word recognition strategies and skills:
    • recognize and name upper and lower case letters of the alphabet.
    • recognize some words by sight including a few common words, own name, and environmental print such as signs, labels, and trademarks.
    • recognize most beginning consonant letter-sound associations in one-syllable words.
  • Objective 1.04: Read or begin to read.
    • Read or attempt to read own dictated story.
    • Attempt to read/reads simple patterned text, decodable text, and/or predictable texts using letter-sound knowledge and pictures to construct meaning.
• 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 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 2.06: Understand and follow oral-graphic directions.
• 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.
• Goal 4: The learner will apply strategies and skills to create oral, written, and visual texts.
  • Objective 4.01: Use new vocabulary in own speech and writing.