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English Language Development — Grade 2

Goal 2. Speaking — Novice High

Goal 2. Speaking

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

Level: 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, identifying basic elements of a story, recognizing all letters of the alphabet in spoken and written form, distinguishing upper and lowercase letters, reading simple text aloud, writing his or her own name, composing simple sentences, and following one-step and two-step directions.

Objective NH 2.01
Begin to use simple words and phrases in addition to using physical actions and other means of non-verbal communication to ask questions to communicate basic needs and other social interactions with prompting and modeling (e.g., matching objects, pointing to answer, or draw pictures).
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Objective NH 2.02
Use a variety of non-verbal communication strategies in addition to simple words and phrases to express own ideas or thoughts with prompting and modeling.
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Objective NH 2.03
Retell familiar stories and short conversations by using appropriate gestures, simple words, phrases, expressions and illustrative objects with modeling and prompting.
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Objective NH 2.04
Begin to speak with a few words, using some English phonemes and rudimentary English grammatical forms with prompting and modeling.
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