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Chicopee Public Schools:
English Language Learners Curriculum
Grade: Kindergarten Subject: English Strand: Reading/Literature
Academic Benchmarks / Skills:
7.1 Demonstrate understanding of the forms and functions of written English.
7.2 Know that there is a link between letters and sounds.
7.3 Recognize letter-sound matches by naming and identifying each letter of the alphabet.
8.1 Make predictions using prior knowledge, pictures and text.
8.2 Retell a main event from a story heard or read.
8.3 Ask questions about the important characters, settings, and events.
8.4 Make predictions about the content of the text using prior knowledge and text features (titles, captions, illustrations).
8.5 Retell important facts from a text heard or read.
9.1 Identify similarities in plot, setting, and character among the works of an author illustrator.
9.2 Identify different interpretations of plot, setting, and character in the same work by different illustrators.
10.1 Distinguish among common forms of literature and identify differences among poetry, prose,
fiction, nonfiction, and drama.
11.1 Relate themes in works of fiction and nonfiction to personal experience.
12.1 Identify the elements of plot, character, and setting in a favorite story.
13.1 Identify and use common textual features: (title, headings, captions, key words, table of
content), and graphic features.
14.1 Identify a regular beat and similarities of sounds in words in responding to rhythm and rhyme in poetry.
15.1 Identify the senses implied in words appealing to the senses in literature and spoken language.
16.1 Identify familiar forms of traditional literature read aloud.
Academic Benchmarks / Skills:
16.2 Retell or dramatize traditional literature.
16.3 Identify and predict recurring phrases in traditional literature.
17.1 Identify the elements of dialogue and use them in their own informal plays.
18.1 Rehearse and perform stories, plays, and poems for an audience using eye contact, volume, and
clear enunciation appropriate to the selection.
ELL Benchmarks
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R2.5 Demonstrate phonemic awareness using familiar words.
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R1.1c Read previously learned words that have been classified by themes or topics.
R2.1f Use text as well as illustrations to gain meaning.
R2.4e Participate in rhyming games and activities.
R2.6d Recognize letters and letter-sound matches in familiar words.
R2.7a Decode unknown words using word patterns or phonograms.
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R2.1 Demonstrate readiness and awareness of reading for meaning.
R2.2 Read and understand high frequency and familiar words and phrases.
R2.3 Recognize that printed text has specific form and carries meaning.
R2.4 Demonstrate that phonemes exist and can be isolated and manipulated.
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R1.1 Read and understand previously learned essential vocabulary words.
R1.5 Apply knowledge of text structures to comprehend text.
R2.5 Demonstrate knowledge of English phonemes and their relationship to familiar words.
R2.7 Apply word analysis to decode printed words, both known and unknown.
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ELL Benchmarks
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R3.1h Retell the beginning, middle, and end of a story.
R4.4b Identify various patterns of repetition in poems.
R5.3a Identify graphic features found in text (e.g. illustrations, diagrams).
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R2.6 Apply letter-sound knowledge to connect meaning with printed words.
R2.9 Recognize that features of written English convey meaning (e.g., capital letters, punctuation).
R3.1b Predict important information of an informational text from title, illustrations, and personal experience.
R5.7a Identify examples of fact and informational text.
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R4.2a Identify words that appeal to the senses in spoken language and literature that is heard.
R4.3 Analyze the elements of plot, character, and setting in stories.
R5.4b Identify chronological order found in text.
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