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Child matches language to social contexts.

identify and use words that name actions, directions, positions, sequences, categories, and locations.

Developing and sustaining foundational language skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking--fluency. The student reads grade-level text with fluency and comprehension. The student is expected to use appropriate fluency (rate, accuracy, and prosody) when reading grade-level text.

Articulation

Developing and sustaining foundational language skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking--self-sustained reading. The student reads grade-appropriate texts independently. The student is expected to self-select text and interact independently with text for increasing periods of time.

Child’s speech is understood by both familiar and unfamiliar adults and peers.

Comprehension skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts. The student uses metacognitive skills to both develop and deepen comprehension of increasingly complex texts. The student is expected to:

Child demonstrates growing understanding of the intonation of language.

establish purpose for reading assigned and self-selected texts with adult assistance;

generate questions about text before, during, and after reading to deepen understanding and gain information with adult assistance;

make and correct or confirm predictions using text features, characteristics of genre, and structures with adult assistance;

Vocabulary

create mental images to deepen understanding with adult assistance;

Child understands (receptive) and uses (expressive) a wide variety of words to label, describe and make connections among objects, people, places, actions, and events.

make connections to personal experiences, ideas in other texts, and society with adult assistance;