During this unit students will be given the opportunity to have daily language practice in the safe and relaxed environment of their classroom. This daily language practice will allow the students to interact on a personal level with both the teacher and fellow classmates. The students are able to gain language knowledge from their participation both as speakers and listeners. These personal interactions are meaningful because the students are able to interact with one another, carry on conversations, and hear significant rules being modeled involving sentence structure. Each lesson within the unit will focus on a particular aspect or skill set of storytelling, each week building upon the last in complexity. The skills learned in this unit will help to develop the students’ oral language, which is necessary to become successful academic learners in the classroom. This will further prepare the students to effectively take on the second grade curriculum.
In this unit students will meet the following objectives:
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· Students will develop vocabulary through listening, speaking, reading and writing.
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· Students will listen to and respect the opinions of others about written, oral and visual texts.
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· Students will listen to, read and respond to texts about and from many cultures and times.
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· Students will recognize values and beliefs included in a text.
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· Students will determine purpose, point of view and audience, and choose an appropriate written, oral or visual format.
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· Students will use oral language with clarity and voice
to communicate a message.
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· Students will use strategies to generate and develop ideas for speaking, writing and visual activities.
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· Students will read, listen to and tell stories from a variety of cultures, and identify the similarities and differences in the way language is used.
