LEARNING OBJECTIVES
&
TEACHING ACTIVITIES

PRE-EMERGENT LITERACY LEVEL NOVICE LITERACY LEVEL
LISTENING/SPEAKING LISTENING/SPEAKING
Elementary Elementary
Middle School/Junior High Middle School/Junior High
High School High School
READING/PRINT AWARENESS READING/PRINT AWARENESS
Elementary Elementary
Middle School/Junior High Middle School/Junior High
High School High School
WRITING WRITING
Elementary Elementary
Middle School/Junior High Middle School/Junior High
High School High School

EMERGENT LITERACY LEVEL EXPERIMENTING LITERACY LEVEL

LISTENING/SPEAKING LISTENING/SPEAKING
Elementary Elementary
Middle School/Junior High Middle School/Junior High
High School High School
READING/PRINT AWARENESS READING/PRINT AWARENESS
Elementary Elementary
Middle School/Junior High Middle School/Junior High
High School High School
WRITING WRITING
Elementary Elementary
Middle School/Junior High Middle School/Junior High
High School High School

CONVENTIONAL LITERACY LEVEL
LISTENING/SPEAKING
Elementary
Middle School/Junior High
High School
READING/PRINT AWARENESS
Elementary
Middle School/Junior High
High School
WRITING
Elementary
Middle School/Junior High
High School



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Pre-Emergent Literacy Level


Students:
 typically communicate in one to two-word verbal or picture symbol utterances to make simple
requests (e.g., for assistance, objects, and activities).
 attend to completion of short activities (listen to a story, play a game, etc.).
 understand and respond appropriately to some routine questions.
 exhibit waiting and turn-taking.
 attend more to pictures and the reader than to the print when stories are read aloud.
 demonstrate minimal art/writing attempts.
 identify familiar pictures and objects by name.
 identify parts of a whole (e.g., parts of a book, body parts, etc.).
 copy melodic speech patterns.

Learning Objectives:  Listening/Speaking
The student will:
1. listen with increasing attention.
2. understand and follow simple, concrete commands with visual prompts.
3. listen to simple stories and request familiar stories.
4. show steady increase in listening and speaking vocabulary in everyday conversation.
5. listen with increased wattention to information, rhymes, songs, conversations, and stories.

Learning Objectives:  Listening/Speaking
The student will:
1. examine and label pictures in books and point to pictures to request that adult name te picture.
2. repeat part of text on a page immediately after it has been read aloud by an adult.
3. recognize favorite books by the cover.
4. frequently request the re-reading of books.

Learning Objectives:  Listening/Speaking
The student will:
1. randomly draw and scribble.
2. use a variety of writing and art tools to create a finished product.























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T.E.K.S. (K.1)  The student listens attentively and engages in a variety of oral language experiences.

Area:  Pre-Emergent Listening/Speaking


OBJECTIVE TEACHING ACTIVITIES

1. The student will listen with increasing
attention.

1.     Students  will  interact  with teacher  in small
groups.    Play  games  such  as  finger  plays,
Simon Says, Red-Light Green-Light.   Read
and   re-read   stories   with   repeated   lines.
Dictate stories about classroom
experiences. Increase   duration   of   group
story time as listening skills develop.

2. Provide  a  listening  center  with  stories  on
tape. Give  all  students  an  opportunity  to
listen to stories daily.





















RESOURCES/MATERIALS Adaptations:
 Large picture books with one or two objects
Various children’s books
Big books
Flannel board stories
Pictures to sequence
on each page (i.e., picture of ball and word
“ball”)
    Simple  voice  output  devices  programmed
with repeated lines from stories




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Pre-Kindergarten Curriculum Guidelines:  The student is able to comprehend what he/she hears in