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English Language Development — Grade 1
Goal 2. Speaking — Novice High, Objective NH 2.04
Goal 2. Speaking — Novice High, Objective NH 2.04
The learner will comprehend spoken English in a variety of personal, social, and academic contexts.
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.
Begin to speak with a few words, using some English phonemes and rudimentary English grammatical forms with prompting and modeling.
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