Nature reflections: Interactive language practice for English-language learners

North Carolina Curriculum Alignment

English Language Arts (2004)

Grade 3

• Goal 4: The learner will apply strategies and skills to create oral, written, and visual texts.
  • Objective 4.02: Use oral and written language to:
    • present information in a sequenced, logical manner.
    • discuss.
    • sustain conversation on a topic.
    • share information and ideas.
    • recount or narrate.
    • answer open-ended questions.
    • report information on a topic.
    • explain own learning.
  • Objective 4.03: Share written and oral products in a variety of ways (e.g., author's chair, book making, publications, discussions, presentations).
  • Objective 4.04: Use planning strategies (with assistance) to generate topics and to organize ideas (e.g., drawing, mapping, discussing, listing).
  • Objective 4.06: Compose a draft that conveys major ideas and maintains focus on the topic by using preliminary plans.
  • Objective 4.08: Focus reflection and revision (with assistance) on target elements by:
    • clarifying ideas.
    • adding descriptive words and phrases.
    • sequencing events and ideas.
    • combining short, related sentences.
    • strengthening word choice.
  • Objective 4.09: Produce work that follows the conventions of particular genres (e.g., personal narrative, short report, friendly letter, directions and instructions).

Grade 4

• Goal 4: The learner will apply strategies and skills to create oral, written, and visual texts.
  • Objective 4.02: Use oral and written language to:
    • present information and ideas in a clear, concise manner.
    • discuss.
    • interview.
    • solve problems.
    • make decisions.
  • Objective 4.03: Make oral and written presentations using visual aids with an awareness of purpose and audience.
  • Objective 4.05: Use planning strategies to generate topics and organize ideas (e.g., brainstorming, mapping, webbing, reading, discussion).
  • Objective 4.06: Compose a draft that conveys major ideas and maintains focus on the topic with specific, relevant, supporting details by using preliminary plans.
  • Objective 4.07: Compose fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama using self-selected and assigned topics and forms (e.g., personal and imaginative narratives, research reports, diaries, journals, logs, rules, instructions).
  • Objective 4.08: Focus revision on a specific element such as:
    • word choice.
    • sequence of events and ideas.
    • transitional words.
    • sentence patterns.
  • Objective 4.09: Produce work that follows the conventions of particular genres (e.g., personal and imaginative narrative, research reports, learning logs, letters of request, letters of complaint).

Grade 5

• Goal 4: The learner will apply strategies and skills to create oral, written, and visual texts.
  • Objective 4.06: Compose a draft that elaborates on major ideas and adheres to the topic by using an appropriate organizational pattern that accomplishes the purpose of the writing task and effectively communicates its content.
  • Objective 4.07: Compose a variety of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama using self-selected topic and format (e.g., poetry, research reports, news articles, letters to the editor, business letters).
  • Objective 4.08: Focus revision on target elements by:
    • improving word choice.
    • rearranging text for clarity.
    • creating simple and/or complex sentences for clarity or impact.
    • developing a lead, characters, or mood.

English Language Development (2005)

Grade 3

• Goal 4. Writing: The learner will apply strategies and skills to create oral, written, and visual texts.
  • Objective NH 4.01: Print legibly (e.g., form letters, word spacing, sentences).
  • Objective NH 4.02: Begin to use correct word order and spacing in own writing with assistance.
  • Objective NH 4.03: Spell previously studied emergent sight words correctly.
  • Objective NH 4.04: Begin to compose simple sentences about familiar experiences, stories, people, objects, and events with support materials.
  • Objective NH 4.05: Use editing to check and confirm correct use of conventions, complete sentences and correct word order in sentences.

Grade 4

• Goal 4. Writing: The learner will apply strategies and skills to create oral, written, and visual texts.
  • Objective NH 4.01: Print legibly with appropriate capitalization (e.g., form letters, space words, sentences).
  • Objective NH 4.02: Begin to use correct word order, spacing, and punctuation in own writing with assistance.
  • Objective NH 4.03: Spell previously studied emergent sight words correctly.
  • Objective NH 4.04: Begin to compose simple sentences about familiar experiences, stories, people, objects, and events with support materials.
  • Objective NH 4.05: Compose a simple sentence with direct instruction and support materials (e.g., word walls, personal dictionaries, teacher modeling, peer assistance).

Grade 5

• Goal 4. Writing: The learner will apply strategies and skills to create oral, written, and visual texts.
  • Objective NH 4.01: Print legibly with appropriate capitalization (e.g., form letters, space words and sentences).
  • Objective NH 4.02: Begin to use correct word order, spacing, and punctuation in own writing with assistance.
  • Objective NH 4.03: Spell previously studied emergent sight words correctly.
  • Objective NH 4.04: Begin to compose simple sentences on a single topic with direct instruction, support materials, and organizational strategies (e.g., graphic organizers).
  • Objective NH 4.05: Compose a simple sentence with direct instruction and support materials (e.g., word walls, personal dictionaries, teacher modeling, peer assistance).