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North Carolina Curriculum Alignment

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 2.01: 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 2.09: Read and understand simple written instructions.
• 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.
  • Objective 3.04: Share personal experiences and responses to experiences with text:
    • publishing non-print texts.
    • discussing interpretations.
    • recording personal responses.
  • Objective 3.05: Recognize how particular authors use vocabulary and language to develop an individual, recognizable voice.
  • Objective 3.07: Compare authors' uses of conventions of language that aid readers including:
    • kinds of sentences.
    • capitalization of first word in a sentence and proper names.
    • punctuation to end a declarative and interrogative sentence.
• 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 4.04: Extend skills in using oral and written language:
    • clarifying purposes for engaging in communication.
    • using clear and precise language to paraphrase messages.
    • engaging in more extended oral discussions.
    • producing written products.
    • completing graphic organizers.
  • 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).
  • 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 5.03: Write all upper and lower case letters of the alphabet, using correct letter formation.
  • 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.
  • Objective 5.06: Self-monitor composition by using one or two strategies (e.g., rereading, peer conferences).
  • Objective 5.07: Use legible manuscript handwriting.

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 2.02: Use text for a variety of functions, including literary, informational, and practical.
  • Objective 2.04: Pose possible how, why, and what if questions to understand and/or interpret text.
  • Objective 2.06: Recall main ideas, facts and details from a text.
• Goal 3: The learner will make connections through the use of oral language, written language, and media and technology.
  • Objective 3.01: Use personal experiences and knowledge to interpret written and oral messages.
  • Objective 3.02: Connect and compare information within and across selections (fiction, nonfiction, poetry and drama) to experience and knowledge.
  • Objective 3.05: Locate and discuss examples of an author's use of:
    • kinds of sentences (declarative, interrogative, exclamatory).
    • capitalization (titles, dates and days, names of countries).
    • punctuation (exclamation marks, commas in dates, and to introduce dialogue and quotations).
    • use of paragraphs in texts and their effects on the reader.
    • genre(s) and specific word choice(s).
• Goal 4: The learner will apply strategies and skills to create oral, written, and visual texts.
  • Objective 4.01: Begin to use formal language and/or literary language in place of oral language patterns, as appropriate.
  • Objective 4.04: Use oral communication to identify, organize, and analyze information.
  • 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 4.07: Compose first drafts using an appropriate writing process:
    • planning and drafting.
    • rereading for meaning.
    • revising to clarify and refine writing with guided discussion.
  • Objective 4.08: Write structured, informative presentations and narratives when given help with organization.
• Goal 5: The learner will apply grammar and language conventions to communicate effectively.
  • Objective 5.01: Spell correctly using:
    • previously studied words.
    • spelling patterns.
    • analysis of sounds to represent all the sounds in a word in one's own writing.
  • Objective 5.02: Attend to spelling, mechanics, and format for final products in one's own writing.
  • Objective 5.03: Use capitalization, punctuation, and paragraphs in own writing.
  • Objective 5.04: Use the following parts of the sentence
    • subject.
    • predicate.
    • modifier.
  • Objective 5.05: Use editing to check and confirm correct use of conventions
    • complete sentences.
    • correct word order in sentences.
  • Objective 5.06: Use correctly in written products:
    • letter formation, lines, and spaces to create readable documents
    • plural forms of commonly used nouns
    • common, age - appropriate contractions.
  • Objective 5.07: Use legible manuscript handwriting.

Kindergarten

• Goal 1: The learner will develop and apply enabling strategies to read and write.
  • 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 2.03: 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 3.01: Connect information and events in text to experience.
  • Objective 3.02: Discuss concepts and information in a text to clarify and extend knowledge.
  • 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.
  • Objective 4.04: Maintain conversation and discussions:
    • attending to oral presentations
    • taking turns expressing ideas and asking questions.
  • Objective 4.06: Write and/or participate in writing behaviors by using authors' models of language.
• Goal 5: The learner will apply grammar and language conventions to communicate effectively.
  • Objective 5.01: Develop spelling strategies and skills by:
    • representing spoken language with temporary and/or conventional spelling.
    • writing most letters of the alphabet.
    • analyzing sounds in a word and writing dominant consonant letters.