LEVEL 1 - GRADES K-3

Auditory Comprehension

Standard 1

Student listens to and demonstrates comprehension of a simple oral discourse.

Descriptors

Student:

• Distinguishes and reacts to simple oral discourse.
• Discriminates the range of sounds in the target language and utters a response to the discourse.
• Produces and demonstrates internalization of oral discourse by applying words to actions and reactons.

• Reacts to verbal instructions such as:

Assessment:
 

recordings  role play  games  scales  charts  student teacher conferences  portfolio  do and tell games  learning cards  picture dictionary  cartoons, ads, and graphics

checklists  rubrics  standardized tests  teacher-made tests  computer animation  anecdotal record  journal  advertisements, and so forth...  student activities book  slide projector game

 
Level 1 - Grades K-3

    Oral Communication

Standard 2

    Uses and communicates simple oral messages in the language.

Descriptors

Student:

- Uses the language orally to produce short and simple utterances.
- Is given opportunities to express him/herself orally and responds to the spoken language.
- Is encouraged to interact orally in the language and make him/herself understood.

Performance

-Identifies, describes, and talks about concepts.
-Responds orally to sentences, questions and commands.
-Responds to the utterances used in the social context of the
communicative event.
-Engages in conversations that require verbal responses.
-Direct observation as evidenced by:
 
• actions and reactions to oral discourse.
• performing and engaging in the discourse and following through with oral activities.

Reading Comprehension/Literary Appreciation

Standard 3

    Student reads to obtain meaning, thinks critically and applies acquired knowledge functionally. She/he also reads so as to interact with concepts and ideas. Student finds, evaluates, and uses information relating to a wide, variety of important, useful, and challenging topics.

Descriptors

Student:

• Reads words that convey different meaning depending on the context.
• Is immersed in the reading of meaningful texts to learn phonics and other aspects of world identification.
• Early reading experiences are highly predictable in terms of rhyme, sound patterns, and plot.
• Reads to comprehend ad relates the new information to his/her previous knowledge.
• Reads to comprehend and transfer the knowledge obtained to new reading situations.
• Uses reading as a critical thinking process to interact with the text and context to develop comprehension.
• Reads to enjoy, appreciate, and obtain information.
• Organizes information by classifying facts, thus, distinguishing between reality and fantasy.
• Predicts outcomes by using evidence gathered from the story.
• Identifies facts that are not in a story.
• Reads to identify the cultural background of literary writings.
• Participates in controlled writing exercise.

• Matches labels with pictures.
• Listens to stories read aloud or recorded on tape to share and retell them.
• Reads to identify. recali events. their sequence and to obtain the main idea of the story.
• Prediots, infers details and oultcomes.
• Reads to respond to reading comprehension questions.
• Retells the part of the story she he likes best.
• Reads independently a story she,he likes.
• Engages in reading using different modes.
• Role plays best part of story.
• Memorizes ad retells poems.
• Finds and uses rhyming words after reading a poem and also to complete a poem.
• Identifies the author's purpose for writing the story.
• Decodes words that have conservat blends, digraphs, long, short, variant vowel sounds, ad vowel diphSongs.
• Describes a story setting.
• Identiles cause ad effect relationships in a given story.

Written Communication

Standard 4

Student writes simple structures to convey meaning and transmit messages.

Descriptors

Student:

- Copies words, phrases, and sentences written in the target language.
- Writes words, phrases, and sentences using writing mechanics.
- Takes dictation of words, phrases, and sentences using writing mechanics.
- Uses words, phrases, and sentences to write familiar texts of brief messages.
- Uses his/her previous knowledge to write guided. creative, and or  cooperative stories.
- Engages in informal exchanges of information through the use of the computer.
- Uses pictures to express ideas in. stories and journals.
- Puts together a number of words to construct sentences.
- Completes incomplete written short stories.

Performance

- Analysis of writing samples produced.

Assessment:

scales  rubrics  writing logs  writing progress checklist  tests (teacher-made, standardized)  cartoons  student/teacher conferences  journals  picture dictionary  constructs a picture to illustrate a story  use of writing centers

letters  biographies  anecdotes  picture captions  poems  advertisements  anecdotal records  photographs  portfolios  picture books  films, cartoons

 
Level 1 - Grades K-3

Cultural Awareness

Standards 5

    Student participates in activities that promotes an understanding of holidays, games, music and tradition with his/her classmates and teachers.

Descriptor

Student:

- Recognizes and describes similar and different relationships in his/her family and the cultural diversity within the same culture.

Performance

- Describes his/her family orally.
- Recognizes and describes similarities and differences in his/her family and of different family
   groups.
- Socializes and takes tums showing respect and appreciation of individual families and
   cultural diversity.
- Directs observation evidenced by anecdotal reports.
- Develops a desirable self-concept through relevant family experiences.
- Participates in and derives enjoyment from wholesome family activities throughout his/her
   lifetime.
- Develops the attitude and skills to make and keep friends.