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. |