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Grade Level Expectations GLE 0001.1.1 Demonstrate an emerging understanding of basic English usage, mechanics, spelling, and sentence structure.

GLE 0001.1.2 Employ a variety of strategies to decode words and expand vocabulary.

GLE 0001.1.3 Develop and maintain phonological awareness.

GLE 0001.1.4 Begin to explore the alphabetic principle.

Checks for Understanding (Formative/Summative Assessment)  􀀹 ** 0001.1.1 ** Recognize end punctuation marks for statements (period), questions (question mark), and emotions (exclamation mark).  􀀹 ** 0001.1.2 ** Recognize capitalization at the beginning of sentences.  􀀹 ** 0001.1.3 ** Use capitalization when writing names.  􀀹 ** 0001.1.4 ** Spell own first and last name.  􀀹 ** 0001.1.5 ** Attempt to spell simple words using pre-to-early phonetic knowledge, sounds of the alphabet, and knowledge of letter names.  􀀹 ** 0001.1.6 ** Read high frequency words (e.g., the, and, can, color words, number words).  􀀹 ** 0001.1.7 ** Recognize nonlinguistic representations of words (e.g., picture dictionary, room labels, common symbols such as stop signs).  􀀹 ** 0001.1.8 ** Use context clues to identify vocabulary in text.  􀀹 ** 0001.1.9 ** Build vocabulary by reading, listening to, and discussing a variety of literature.

Phonemic Awareness  􀀹 ** 0001.1.10 ** Maintain phonemic awareness.
 * Understand that a phoneme is one distinct sound.
 * Use sound stretching of one syllable words to identify each phoneme.
 * Use sound blending of each separately spoken phoneme to make meaningful words.
 * Segment one-syllable words into individual sounds and blend the sounds into whole words.
 * Recognize and produce rhyming words.
 * Recognize words that have the same beginning and ending sounds.
 * Understand words are made up of one or more syllables (e.g., students clap syllables in words.)

Phonics  􀀹 ** 0001.1.11 ** Apply phonics generalizations in order to decode words. 2
 * Recognize and name all upper and lowercase letters of the alphabet.
 * Understand that the sequence of letters in a written word represents the sequence of sounds in a word.
 * Use letter-sound matches to decode simple words.
 * Understand that as letters of a word change, so do the sounds (alphabetic principle).
 * Make new words using common word families (e.g., b-at, p-at, c-at).
 * Use the first letter of a word paired with a picture as a decoding strategy.