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

English Language Development — Grade 4

Goal 2. Speaking — Novice Low

Goal 2. Speaking

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

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 2.01
Use physical actions and other means of non-verbal communication to communicate basic needs and other social interactions with prompting and modeling (e.g., matching objects, pointing to answer, draw pictures).
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Objective NL 2.02
Use a variety of non-verbal communication strategies to express own ideas or thoughts with prompting and modeling (e.g., draw, games).
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Objective NL 2.03
Produce non-verbal responses to indicate comprehension of familiar text told or read aloud with prompting and modeling (e.g., pictures, drama).
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Objective NL 2.04
Repeat modeled language spoken distinctly at a slow speed.
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