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K–12 teaching and learning · from the UNC School of Education

English Language Development — Grade 3

Goal 3. Reading — Novice Low

Goal 3. Reading

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

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, repeating modeled language, developing book and print awareness, demonstrating a sense of story and sequence, copying and appropriately spacing letters, printing first and last name, drawing pictures and using letters to illustrate experiences, copying to compose simple sentences, and following one-step directions.

Objective NL 3.01
Develop book and print awareness.
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Objective NL 3.02
Demonstrate phonemic awareness and knowledge of alphabetic principle.
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Objective NL 3.03
Demonstrate sense of story through non-verbal responses (e.g., beginning, middle, end, characters, details).
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Objective NL 3.04
Use previously modeled strategies to connect prior knowledge and experiences to pictures in text.
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Objective NL 3.05
Sequence pictures of a familiar story.
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Objective NL 3.06
Interact with self-selected texts in English.
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Objective NL 3.07
Recognize that books and other sources provide information through pictures.
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