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English Language Development — Grade 2

Goal 3. Reading — Advanced

Goal 3. Reading

The learner will comprehend written English in personal, social, and academic contexts from print and non-print materials.

Level: Advanced

Students will use expanded vocabulary effectively in social and academic settings with few errors and will rely much less on forms of non-verbal communication. Learning objectives focus on narration and retelling using details and adjectives, comprehending oral presentations on familiar and unfamiliar topics, responding to interrogatives, paraphrasing events in detail, speaking using consistent grammatical forms, speaking with correct intonation and modulation, using punctuation marks correctly, composing more complex sentences, following two-step and three-step directions, increasing reading stamina, and reading or interpreting own writing with few errors.

Objective AD 3.01
Identify and name all upper and lowercase of the English alphabet in print and handwritten form with little assistance.
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Objective AD 3.02
Identify and pronounce correctly all blends and digraphs with little assistance.
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Objective AD 3.03
Use phonics knowledge of sound letter relationships to decode regular multi-syllable words when reading grade-level text with occasional instructional support.
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Objective AD 3.04
Demonstrate familiarity with a variety of types of books and selections using grade level text with occasional instructional support (e.g., storybooks, short chapter books, newspapers, telephone books, and every day print such as signs, labels, poems, word plays using alliteration and rhyme, skits and short plays).
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Objective AD 3.05
Increase vocabulary, concepts, and reading stamina by reading self-selected texts independently commensurate with the student's independent reading level.
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Objective AD 3.06
Demonstrate a sense of story from a grade-level text with occasional instructional support and graphic organizers as needed (e.g., beginning, middle, end, characters, setting, and details).
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Objective AD 3.07
Discuss and explain responses to how, why, and what if questions in sharing narrative and expository texts with little assistance.
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Objective AD 3.08
Recognize 70 to 100 high frequency and/or common irregularly spelled words in grade level text (e.g., had, where, said, two).
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Objective AD 3.09
Read aloud and self-monitor independently with fluency and comprehension any grade appropriate text with occasional instructional support.
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Objective AD 3.10
Interact with text before, during, and after reading to formulate questions that a text might answer with occasional instructional support (e.g. What will happen in this story?, Where do you think this happens?).
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Objective AD 3.11
Predict and explain what will happen next in the story.
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Objective AD 3.12
Use pronunciation, sentence meaning, story meaning, and syntax to confirm accurate decoding or to self-correct errors.
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Objective AD 3.13
Self-monitor decoding by using one or two decoding strategies (e.g., beginning letters, rhymes, length of word, and ending letters).
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Objective AD 3.14
Compose a variety of products in response to grade-level text with occasional instructional support (e.g., stories, journal entries, letters, response logs simple poems, oral retellings).
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