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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 1.04: Self-monitor decoding by using one or two decoding strategies (e.g., beginning letters, rimes, length of word, ending letters).
• Goal 2: The learner will develop and apply strategies and skills to comprehend text that is read, heard, and viewed.
  • Objective 2.09: Read and understand simple written instructions.
• 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 5.03: 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 5.07: Use legible manuscript handwriting.

Grade 2

• Goal 3: The learner will make connections through the use of oral language, written language, and media and technology.
  • 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).
• 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 4.06: Plan and make judgments about what to include in written products (e.g., narratives of personal experiences, creative stories, skits based on familiar stories and/or experiences).
  • 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 5.05: 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.