“A Exemplary District”
Medina Valley Independent School District
8449 FM 471 S Castroville, Texas 78009 830-931-2243 830-931-4050 FAX
In Pre-Kindergarten Language Arts, your child will have the opportunity to:
LISTENING COMPREHENSION.
Students will:
listen with increased attention
Understand and follow simple oral directions
Enjoy listening to and responding to books
Listen to tapes and records, and show understanding through gestures,
actions, and/or language
Listen purposefully to English-speaking teachers and peers to gather
information and show some understanding of languages being spoken by
others (ESL)
SPEECH
PRODUCTION AND SPEECH DISCRIMINATION. Students will:
Perceive differences between similar sounding words
Produce speech sounds with increasing ease and accuracy
Experiment with new language sounds
Experiment with and demonstrate growing understanding of the sounds and
intonation of the English language (ESL)
VOCABULARY. Students will:
Show a steady increase in listening and speaking vocabulary
Use new vocabulary in everyday communication
Refine and extend understanding of known words
Attempt to communicate more than current vocabulary will allow,
borrowing and extending works to create meaning
Link new learning experiences and vocabulary to what is already known
about a topic
Increase listening vocabulary and begin to develop a vocabulary of
object names and common phrases in English (ESL)
DEVELOPING KNOWLEDGE
OF LITERARY FORMS. Students will:
Recognize favorite books by their cover
Select books to read based on personal criteria
Understand that books and other print resources are handled in specific
ways
Become increasingly familiar with narrative form and its elements by
identifying characters and predicting events, plot, and the resolution
of a story
Imitate the special language in storybooks and story dialogue, and uses
it in retellings and dramatic play
Asks questions and make comments about the information and events from
books
Connect information and events I books to real life experiences
Begin to retell some sequences of events in stories
Show appreciation of repetitive language patterns
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