Curriculum » NC Standard Course of Study & aligned resources
English Language Development — Grade 1
Goal 2. Speaking
Select a proficiency level:
- Novice Low
- Students will use various forms of non-verbal communication to express ideas and demonstrate basic comprehension. They may point, touch, match, draw, act out, demonstrate an action, or play games to show their understanding. Learning objectives focus on greetings, classroom objects, letters, choral reading of simple text, copying simple words, distinguishing upper and lowercase letters, and following one-step directions with prompting.
- Novice High
- Students will begin to use simple words and phrases, while continuing to use forms of non-verbal communication to express ideas and demonstrate comprehension. They may use pictures, actions, and limited verbal responses to show their understanding. Learning objectives focus on familiar stories and retelling them with gestures and simple words, identifying parts of a book, learning the alphabet, distinguishing upper and lowercase letters, writing his or her own name, and following one-step and two-step directions.
- Intermediate Low
- Students will begin to use limited vocabulary to participate in discussions on familiar topics with periods of momentary silence. In addition, they may use forms of non-verbal communication to demonstrate comprehension. Learning objectives focus on making simple statements, retelling stories and texts, identifying main idea and other elements of a story, identifying all parts of a book, recognizing basic punctuation, paraphrasing, using adjectives, correcting own writing, and following one-step and two-step directions.
- Intermediate High
- Students will begin to use expanded vocabulary to participate effectively in social and academic conversations and presentations with occasional difficulty. They may continue to use forms of non-verbal communication to demonstrate comprehension, but will rely more upon verbal skills. Learning objectives focus on sequencing, distinguishing long and short vowels, retelling stories with richer vocabulary, incorporating grammatical rules, writing all letters of the alphabet, writing simple sentences and editing them, following one-step and two-step directions, and comprehending English spoken at a normal speed.
- Advanced
- Students will use expanded vocabulary effectively in social and academic settings with occasional errors and will rely much less on forms of non-verbal communication. Learning objectives focus on narration and retelling using details and adjectives, paraphrasing events in detail, speaking with correct intonation and modulation, identifying punctuation marks, applying syllabication rules, following two-step and three-step directions, and reading or interpreting own writing with few errors.
- Superior
- Students will interpret conversational and academic expressions of grade-level concepts when spoken at a normal speed with no difficulties. Learning objectives focus on retelling by using facts and details, narrating without difficulty, paraphrasing with fluency, speaking with correct intonation and modulation without errors, producing rhyming words independently, recognizing familiar environmental print, following three-step directions with no difficulties, and reading or interpreting own writing with very few errors.
