Talking:
- Uses 7 to 8 words in a sentence
- Produces all speech sounds correctly
- Uses correct grammar in conversation (including correct word order, compound sentences and noun-verb agreement).
- Uses prepositions, adverbs, adjectives, and negatives.
- Creates a story to share with others (with appropriate sequence and transitions)
- Summarizes information presented orally by others
- Creates and participates in oral dramatic activities
- Defines objects by use, size, shape, function and location
- Initiates communication with others, engages in conversation with turn taking, adapts or changes conversation to fit the circumstance, stays on topic for 7 to 12 minutes, requests clarification, gives clarification
- Uses oral language to persuade, entertain and uses humor
- Gives synonyms and antonyms
Listening:
- Responds to questions 80% of the time
- Answers who, what, where, when, why, and how questions
- Follows three and four step directions
- Adds or deletes sounds to make new words, counts syllables in 3 syllable words, creates a rhyme, blends sounds to make word parts and words with 1 to 3 syllables
- Uses the telephone to take massages
Language Common Core Standards:
- Demonstrates command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.
- Explain the funciton of nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs in general and their functions in particular sentences.
- Form and use regular and irregular plural nouns
- Use abstract nouns (e.g., childhood).
- Form and use regular and irregular verbs.
- Form and use the simple (e.g., I walked; I walk; I will walk ) verb tenses.
- Ensure subject-verb and pronoun-antecedent agreement.
- Form and use comparative and superlative adjectives and adverbs , and choose between them depending on what is to be modified.
- Use coordinating and subordinating conjunctions.
- Produce simple, compound, and complex sentences.
- Use knowledge of language and its conventions when writing, speaking, reading or listening.
- Choose words and phrases for effect.
- Recognize and observe differences between the conventions of spoken and written standard English.
- Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning word and phrases based on grade 3 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies.
- Use sentence-level context as a clue to the meaning of a word or phrase.
- Determine the meaning of new word formed when a known affix is added to a known word (e.g., agreeable/disagreeable; comfortable/uncomfortable; care/careless; heat/preheat).
- Use a known root word as a clue to the meaning of an unknown word with the same root (e.g., company, companion).
- Use glossaries or beginning dictionaries, both print and digital, to determine or clarify the precise meaning of key words and phrases
- Demonstrate understanding of word relationships and nuances in word meanings.
- Distinguish the literal and non-literal meanings of words and phrases in context (e.g., take steps).
- Identify real-life connections between words and their use (e.g., describe people who are friendly or helpful).
- Distinguish shades of meaning among related words that describe states of mind or degrees of certainty (e.g., knew, believed, suspected, heard, wondered).
- Acquire and use accurately grade-appropriate conversational, general academic, and domain-specific words and phrases, including those that signal spatial and temporal relationships (e.g., After dinner that night we went looking for them).
