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

English Language Development — Grade 7

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 developing awareness of English phonemes, responding appropriately to classroom directions, recognizing and pronouncing most letters of the alphabet, recognizing and repeating simple vocabulary, recognizing common greetings, developing print awareness, reading simple and predictable text, writing all letters of the alphabet, copying from printed text, labeling, writing simple sentences, and beginning to use a bilingual dictionary to aid writing and spelling.

Objective NL 3.01
Develop print awareness including directionality, spacing, capitalization, and punctuation.
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Objective NL 3.02
Recognize and pronounce correctly most letters of the alphabet in print and hand-written form.
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Objective NL 3.03
Read and determine the meaning of basic information signs, simple words and phrases with the use of picture dictionaries.
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Objective NL 3.04
Read simple patterned, decodable, and predictable text.
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