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English Language Arts — Grade 1

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).

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Objective 4.02

Use words that name characters and settings (who, where) and words that tell action and events (what happened, what did ___ do) in simple texts.

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Objective 4.03

Use specific words to name and tell action in oral and written language (e.g., using words such as frog and toad when discussing an expository text).

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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.

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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).

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Objective 4.06

Compose a variety of products (e.g., stories, journal entries, letters, response logs, simple poems, oral retellings).

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