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English Language Development — Kindergarten

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, beginning to identify parts of a book, learning the alphabet, upper and lowercase letters, writing his or her own name, and following one-step and two-step directions.

Objective NH 2.01
Use a variety of non-verbal communication strategies, in addition to simple words and phrases, to ask questions and express own ideas or thoughts with prompting and modeling (e.g., match objects, point to answer, draw pictures).
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Objective NH 2.02
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 2.03
Begin to speak with a few words, using some English phonemes and rudimentary grammatical forms with prompting and modeling.
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