The child will develop listening and speaking skills by communicating experiences and ideas orally.
a) Listen with increasing attention to spoken language, conversations, and texts read aloud.
b) Correctly identify characters, objects, and actions in a text with or without pictures and begin to comment about each.
c) Make predictions about what might happen in a story.
e) Use appropriate and expanding language for a variety of purposes, e.g., ask questions, express needs, get information.
f) Engage in turn taking exchanges and rules of polite conversation with adults and peers, understanding that conversation is interactive.
g) Listen attentively to stories in a whole class setting.
h) Follow simple one and two step oral directions. | The child will develop an understanding of word meanings through the use of appropriate and expanding vocabulary.
a) Use size, shape, color, and spatial words to describe people, places, and things.
b) Listen with increasing understanding to conversations and directions.
c) Use expanding vocabulary with increasing frequency and sophistication to express and describe feelings, needs, and ideas. |