Early Childhood - Language Arts
Reading
- Understand the phonetic structure of words
- Recognize all letter sounds: consonants, vowels, blends, digraphs
- Understand phonic structure of words
- Able to match a letter to a spoken phoneme
- Able to decode a letter into the phoneme it represents
- Able to rhyme words
- Able to clap hands at syllable breaks
Comprehension
- Know parts of stories, title, beginning, end
- Understand the left-right progression of letters in words, and, words in sentences
- Understand oral directions; Sequences stories in own words
- Distinguish fantasy from realistic; predict outcome
Writing
- Write first and last name; write simple sentences
- Write short stories
Literature
- Poetry: introduce selected poems with strong rhyme and rhythm.
- Fiction: complement children's ability to decode, operational knowledge of how written symbols represent sounds, how sounds convey meaning
- Literary Terms: Author and Illustration
- American folk Heroes and Tall Tales: Johnny Appleseed and Casey Jones
- Sayings and Phrases: phrases and proverbs that are peculiar to
- American Culture:
- A dog is man's best friend.
- April Showers bring May flowers.
- Better safe than sorry.
- The early bird gets the worm.
- Great oaks from little acorns grow.
- Look before you leap.
- A place for everything and everything in its place.
- Practice makes perfect.
- It's raining cats and dogs.
- Where there's a will there's a way.
Materials Used:
- iMac flat screen computers
- More Primary Phonics
- Phoenix Individual Readers
- Young Scholars Literature Program /6+1 Trait Writing
- Modern Curriculum Press
- Mother Goose and other traditional poems
- Aesop's fables
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