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English reading curriculum in this section is divided into grade levels and is based on
CA, NY, and CCSSI. More independent study topics will be added as the site continues
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Curriculum - Kindergarten |
Describe people, places, things, locations, and actions
Recite short poems, rhymes, and songs
Relate an experience or creative story in a logical sequence
Recognize and use complete, coherent sentences when speaking
Spell independently using pre-phonetic knowledge |
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Curriculum - Grade 1 |
Stay on the topic when speaking
Use descriptive words about people, places, things, and events
Recite poems, rhymes, songs, and stories
Retell stories using basic story grammar
Relate an important life event or personal experience
Provide descriptions with careful attention to sensory detail |
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Curriculum - Grade 2 |
Organize presentations to maintain focus
Speak at an appropriate speed for the type of communication
Recount experiences in a logical sequence
Retell stories, including characters, setting, and plot
Report on a topic with supportive facts and details
Recount experiences or present stories
Report on a topic with facts and details |
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Curriculum - Grade 3 |
Organize ideas chronologically around major points of information
Provide a beginning, a middle, and an end
Use specific vocabulary to communicate ideas and establish the tone
Enhance oral presentations through the use of appropriate props
Read prose and poetry aloud with fluency and rhythm
Compare ideas and points of view expressed in media
Distinguish between speaker's opinions and verifiable facts
Make brief narrative presentations
Plan and present dramatic interpretations of experiences
Make descriptive presentations using concrete sensory details |
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Curriculum - Grade 4 |
Present effective introductions and conclusions
Use traditional structures for conveying information
Emphasize points in ways to help the listener or viewer
Use details, examples, anecdotes, or experiences
Use volume, pitch, phrasing, speed, modulation, and gestures
Evaluate the role of the media in focusing attention on events
Make narrative presentations
Make informational presentations
Deliver spoken summaries
Recite brief poems, soliloquies, dramatic dialogues |
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Curriculum - Grade 5 |
Select focus, organizational structure, and point of view
Support spoken ideas with evidence and examples
Engage audience with verbal cues, facial expressions, gestures
Identify, analyze, critique persuasive techniques
Analyze media as sources for information
Deliver narrative presentations
Deliver informative presentations about important idea, issue, event
Deliver oral replies to literature |
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Curriculum - Grade 6 |
Select a focus, an organizational structure, and a point of view
Emphasize salient points in following the main ideas and concepts
Support opinions with detailed evidence, visual and media displays
Use effective rate, volume, pitch, tone and align nonverbal elements
Analyze use of rhetorical devices for intent and effect
Identify persuasive, propaganda techniques used in television
Deliver narrative presentations
Deliver informative presentations
Deliver oral replies to literature
Deliver persuasive presentations
Deliver presentations on problems and solutions |
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Curriculum - Grade 7 |
Arrange information to achieve particular purposes
Arrange supporting details, reasons, descriptions, and examples
Use speaking techniques for effective presentations
Provide constructive feedback to speakers
Know effect on viewer of images, text, and sound
Deliver narrative presentations
Deliver understandable oral summaries of articles and books
Deliver research presentations
Deliver persuasive presentations |
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Curriculum - Grade 8 |
Arrange information to achieve particular purposes
Prepare speech outline based upon a chosen pattern of organization
Use precise language in ways which enliven oral presentations
Use appropriate grammar, word choice, enunciation, and speed
Use audience feedback
Evaluate credibility of a speaker
Interpret and evaluate visual image makers
Deliver narrative presentations
Deliver oral replies to literature
Deliver research presentations
Deliver persuasive presentations
Recite poems |
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Independent Study - Speaking |
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American English Pronunciation |
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