English Language

Unit 1

• Identify number and separation of syllables
• Express ideas and feelings clearly
• Speak in complete sentences when appropriate
• Participate in conversations with diverse partners and groups
• Follow agreed-upon rules for discussions
• Listen to others with focus and care

Unit 2

• Build on others’ ideas in conversation; respond to comments
• Describe people, places, things, and events with relevant details
• Give and follow simple two-step directions
• Ask questions during reading and instruction for clarification and to gain more information
• Ask and answer questions to clarify oral presentations to which the student is listening
• Add drawings or other visual approaches to speaking to clarify ideas, feelings, and thoughts

Unit 3

• Write all upper and lowercase letters
• Use and identify common, proper, and possessive nouns
• Use correct singular and plural nouns to match verbs
• Use pronouns correctly (I, me, you, my, they, them, there, anyone)
• Use verbs to communicate past, present, and future
• Correctly use frequently occurring adjectives and adverbs

Unit 4

• Correctly use frequently occurring prepositions
• Produce simple and compound declarative, interrogative, imperative, and exclamatory sentences
• Write complete simple sentences
• Capitalize names and dates
• Use correct end punctuation for sentences
• Use commas in dates and series
• Create new words with two- or three-letter initial sounds