Grade K

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Writing

Oral Language

Point to pictures described orally in context (e.g., "the big dog")

Find familiar people, places, or objects named orally (e.g., "Where's a chair?")

Identifyillustrated activities described orally

Follow modeled actions to show likes or dislikes (e.g., using "or" words and phrases, "read" or "write")

Identify personal choices (e.g., "Show me your favorite…") from different examples

Classify everyday objects by descriptive features (e.g., red ones, blue ones)

Respond with gestures to songs, chants, or stories modeled by teachers

Match familiar pictures, objects, or movements to oral statements (e.g., "Clap your hands.")

Match real-life objects to illustrations about their use based on oral statements

Identify people and places associated with everyday events described orally (e.g., "It is Monday. You are at school.")

Discriminate between words and phrases related to personal choices (e.g., "The park or the zoo?")

Identify oral preferences stated by others (e.g., choosing pictures or objects)

Act out songs, chants, stories and poems with gestures as a whole group

Follow sequential language for oral directions one step at a time (e.g., "Walk to the door. Now, come to the circle.")

Identify language associated with features of objects or print (e.g., "Show me a word in the title.")

Follow peermodeled oral commands with a partner

Act out opposites using gestures (e.g., through songs or chants)

Respond nonverbally to show agreement or disagreement with opinions of others (e.g., thumbs up, thumbs down)

Role play in response to illustrated stories read aloud

Match extended oral descriptions of contentrelated topics to illustrations or graphics (e.g., "The bright yellow ball is shining in the sky.")

Draw individual phases or steps to "how" questions (e.g., "How does a caterpillar change into a butterfly?")

Point out illustrated details that match oral descriptions of cycles or procedures

Draw to make predictions from illustrated stories read aloud (e.g., "What happens next?")

Classify fact from fiction in oral discourse (e.g., through physical responses or sorting pictures)

Arrange contentrelated objects or illustrations according to oral discourse with a partner

Make patterns from real objects or pictures based on detailed oral descriptions from a model (e.g., "Follow me. Put two blue crayons on your table. Then put two red crayons. Now put two more crayons of another color.")

Identify illustrations related to cause and effect from oral information

Reenact procedural information obtained from videos or other media (e.g., "Show me how to make day and night.")

Agree or disagree with oral claims using gestures (e.g., "Tomorrow will be hotter than today.")

Identify reasons for choices in real life scenarios read aloud (e.g., by circling pictures)

Identify drawings or other visual displays from elaborate descriptions with details

Identify detailed information in oral discourse or through multimedia

Recognize language related to scientific or mathematical processes

Identify patterns in procedures or natural phenomena in illustrated stories read aloud

Interpret which side to take and why from dialogs or short conversations

Identify details of stories or scenarios read aloud that represent different points of view

Repeat words, simple phrases or expressions from familiar stories as a whole class

Participate in group songs, chants, or poems using gestures or physical movement

Identify familiar objects used in everyday routines and activities with a partner (e.g., in the home language and English)

Rehearse and act out key steps in procedures or classroom routines following models (e.g., "Put away toys. Get in line.")

State personal likes from oral prompts (e.g., sports, food, animals)

Name choices from models (e.g., "Apple or banana?")

Restate some language associated with illustrated short stories or informational text (e.g., "I see." "I hear.")

Re-enact various roles when interacting in pairs or in small groups

Describe uses of everyday objects or roles of familiar people (e.g., "Teacher reads.")

State attributes and classify objects into illustrated categories to show how they go together (e.g., shapes, colors, sizes)

State personal preferences (e.g., "I like this.")

Agreee or disagree with familiar questions (e.g., "Are you ready?" "Yes I am.")

Retell main events in short narrative stories to peers using pictures

Describe attributes of familiar objects, people, and places

Compare sizes of familiar phenomena (e.g., bigger than/smaller than, longer/ wider)

State reasons for classroom routines or procedures with a partner (e.g., expected behaviors)

State personal preferences or opinions (e.g., "Recess is best.")

Predict everyday situations or events from illustrations

Retell familiar stories through a series of pictures

Share personal stories or experiences with others (e.g., in multiple languages)

Describe classroom routines (e.g., putting away puzzles)

Compare and contrast placement of reallife objects and phenomena (e.g., "on the table" v. "under the table")

Express likes, dislikes, or preferences with reasons (e.g., "I like ___ because___.")

Give reasons for classifying familiar objects with classmates (e.g., in open sorts)

Relate school-based content and personal experiences with peers and adults

Rephrase events from stories or information with a partner (e.g., class rules or routines)

Provide details related to classroom activities and tasks in small groups (e.g., how we work together)

Describe steps in familiar cycles and processes (e.g., getting in a circle to play a game)

Offer personal opinions about content-related ideas in small groups

Give reasons for content-related information when modeled (e.g., "These animals go together because they have spots.")

Retell familiar stories, including key details with prompting and support

Describe details about characters, settings, and major events in illustrated stories with prompting and support

Compare two objects using measurable attributes (e.g., "The table is higher than the chair.")

Describe the causes or effects of different phenomena based on observations and experiences (e.g., pull/push, sink/float)

Agree or disagree with reasons for categorizing content-related information with a partner

State personal opinions with justification for content-related ideas or topics

Match icons and symbols to corresponding pictures

Identify labeled real-life classroom objects (e.g., tables, books, door)

Match illustrations with modeled language with a partner

Identify steps in procedures from illustrations and icons (e.g., "It goes up. It comes down.")

Point to labeled pictures or objects of personal preferences

Match illustrations to words of personal interest as modeled

Reproduce content-related information in oral text through drawings

Act out familiar rhymes from text read aloud or chanted in small groups

Identify illustrated words or icons to show why (e.g., in play-based activities)

Follow illustrated directions with a peer (e.g., to form shapes or patterns)

Classify labeled pictures of personal choices from stories according to different character traits

Make choices from illustrated descriptions read aloud and sharing with peers (e.g., based on "or" phrases)

Identify familiar words in context (e.g., in Big Books or wall charts) in small groups

Recognize persons and settings in illustrated text read aloud

Point out causes or motives in illustrated stories read aloud

Show relationships depicted in informational text with real-life objects (e.g., "5 is more than 3.")

Predict next steps, actions, or events in informational text and stories read aloud (e.g., by pointing to pictures)

Indicate agreement or disagreement with authors' points of view of text read aloud with a partner

Identify words in picture dictionaries (e.g., in multiple languages)

Recognize common types of text (e.g., storybooks, poems) read aloud

Demonstrate the relationship between objects, people, or animals from detailed descriptions read aloud using gestures (e.g., "the big tall giraffe and the teeny tiny mouse")

Classify how to resolve situations faced by characters or in content-related text using graphic organizers

Interpret pictures in informational text as true or false in small groups

Compare choices of different characters in illustrated text read aloud (e.g., using T charts)

Order words to form short sentences from oral models (e.g., using pocket charts, cards)

Identify language related to spatial relations (e.g., in front of, next to, in between)

Match familiar descriptive phrases to objects or illustrations with a partner (e.g., steps in morning routines)

Compare how to do something in different ways from illustrated stories (e.g., making fruit salad)

Evaluate situations in picture books and match them to related reasons for choices

Agree or disagree with actions of characters in illustrated text read aloud

Identify major events in stories with prompting and support

Identify main ideas and details in common types of illustrated text (e.g., trade books, rhymes)

Draw sketches or models to show how to solve problems read from illustrated informational text

Locate descriptive language related to "how" or "why" in illustrated text in small groups

Identify different points of view from illustrated text with prompting and support

Identify similarities in and differences between two texts on the same topic (e.g., pasting or matching words found in both sources)

Dictate personal information scribed by adults (e.g., about self and family members)

Reproduce icons or environmental print related to self from models

Describe familiar routines by drawing pictures and dictating to adults (e.g., in one or more languages)

Draw what comes next (e.g., in stories or experiments)

Illustrate likes or dislikes from real-life objects or pictures

Draw or make collages about personal interests or content-related topics in small groups

Reproduce symbols, numbers, and illustrated words from models in context

Draw and label familiar people, objects, or events from models (e.g., word walls, posters, cards)

Connect oral language to print (e.g., through language experience)

Reproduce labeled pictures or photographs to describe processes or procedures (e.g., producing an album)

Draw and reproduce words about preferences (e.g., from charts or posters)

State personal choices from models (e.g., labeling photos or drawings of self )

Reproduce familiar words from labeled models or illustrations (e.g., labeled dioramas)

Restate facts about personal experiences shared with classmates (e.g., through illustrated text)

Describe familiar events or phenomena using sentence starters and drawings

Identify self as an author through pictures and invented words (e.g., by keeping a journal)

Agree or disagree with choices (e.g., producing "yes" or "no") from models

Complete text about personal opinions on different topics (e.g., "I like ___.")

Produce familiar words and phrases from environmental print and illustrated text

Draw and describe different parts of stories, personal experiences, or events (e.g., written conversations) with a peer

Describe how to do something through a sequence of pictures and words

Compose group drafts on different processes based on oral input or experiences modeled by teachers

Produce statements about choices using different models as examples (e.g., "I want to ____.")

Build short sentences from personal preferences using pictures or photos with partners

Describe everyday experiences using illustrated phrases and short sentences

Produce illustrated stories about self or family (e.g., using one or more languages)

Describe uses of tools or objects with a peer (e.g., from illustrated phrase walls)

Sequence contentrelated processes by drawing and describing objects (e.g., from seeds to plants)

Make requests to indicate preferences (e.g., "Can I have …?")

List reasons for content-related choices with guidance and support (e.g., "Why do you like number 5?")

State information to answer modeled questions about experiences with guidance

Use new words and phrases acquired through conversations or oral reading in short illustrated sentences

State steps of familiar routines or events by drawing, dictating, and writing

Respond to "how" questions and suggestions from peers, with guidance from adults, to add details to text

Compose opinion pieces using content-related language with prompting and support

Make claims using content-related language about topics or books (e.g., dictated to adults)

Attend to the speaker to demonstrate understanding

Follow routines, chants, and songs

Address others according to relationship (e.g., student-student, student-teacher)

Participate in exchanges between peers (e.g., thumb buddies, turn and talk)

Work together collaboratively (e.g., taking turns, listening to others)

Use language and body movement to include others in conversations

Propose ideas to contribute to conversations

Ask questions to request clarification

Ask questions to extend conversations

Demonstrate active listening to show respect to the speaker

Sustain conversations on a topic

Build on comments/ responses of others