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English Language Development — Grade 2

Goal 2. Speaking — Intermediate Low

Goal 2. Speaking

The learner will comprehend spoken English in a variety of personal, social, and academic contexts.

Level: Intermediate Low

Students will begin to use limited vocabulary to participate in discussions on familiar topics spoken at normal speed with periods of momentary silence. In addition, they may use forms of non-verbal communication to demonstrate comprehension. Learning objectives focus on identifying all upper and lowercase letters, distinguishing between short and long vowel sounds, beginning to produce word families, making simple statements, retelling stories and texts using some adjectives, identifying main idea and other elements of a story, identifying all parts of a book, making predictions, recognizing basic punctuation, paraphrasing, speaking in comprehensible English, correcting own writing, and following one-step and two-step directions.

Objective IL 2.01
Use limited vocabulary on familiar topics in discussions with some momentary silence.
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Objective IL 2.02
Retell text using limited vocabulary, descriptive words, and paraphrasing with moments of silence.
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Objective IL 2.03
Use limited vocabulary to participate in discussions.
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Objective IL 2.04
Begin to be understood when speaking, but may have some inconsistent use of English grammatical forms and sounds with periods of momentary silence.
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