English Language

Unit 1

• Use legible printing skills
• Correctly use collective nouns, regular and irregular plural nouns, reflexive pronouns, adjectives, and adverbs
• Produce complete simple and compound sentences
• Capitalize names, including holidays, product names, and geographic names
• Use end punctuation, commas, and apostrophes

Unit 2

• Use of beginning dictionaries and other reference materials
• Correctly use the English language when speaking, reading, or writing
• Know when to use formal and informal English
• Read grade-level texts with purpose and understanding
• Orally read grade-level texts with accuracy, expression, and appropriate rate

Unit 3

• Express ideas and feelings clearly
• Speak clearly and audibly in sensible sentences
• Describe people, places, things, and events with relevant details
• Add illustrations, graphics, or other visual components) to a speech to clarify ideas, feelings, and thoughts
• Give and follow simple two-step directions

Unit 4

• Participate in conversations with diverse partners and groups
• Follow agreed-upon rules for discussions
• Listen to and respond to others with focus and care
• Ask and answer questions about key details in a text or in an oral presentation
• Tell an experience with appropriate facts, relevant details
• Create audio recordings of stories or poems