Elementary English - Grade One1: Appropriate Expressions - Listening
- Respond appropriately to expressions listened to
- greeting others
- leave taking
- Speaking
- Use expressions listened to in appropriate situations
- Ask and answer questions, e.g.
- What's your name?
- Where do you live?
- What grade are you in?
- How old are you? etc
- Reading
- Recognize words commonly heard through sight words
- courteous expressions
- one-step direction
2: Commands and Directions - Listening
- Follow simple one-step direction heard e.g.
- Speaking
- Give short commands and directions
- Reading
- Identify common printed materials e.g. book, newspaper
- Turn the pages of reading material properly
- Writing
- Demonstrate writing readiness skills
- free-hand writing
- connecting dots
- Trace and copy lines
- straight
- slanting
- horizontal
- curve
- circular
- Write legibly, accurately in manuscript form the capital and small letters of the alphabet
- Trace and copy letter with
- straight lines
- combination of straight and slanting lines e.g. Nn Aa
- combination of straight and curved lines e.g. Dd
- rounded strokes with loops e.g. Cc
3: Visual Discrimination - Listening
- Identify specific sounds from a background of different sounds heard
- loud and soft
- high and low
- Speaking
- Talk about the meaning of sound signals heard e.g. roosters crow in the morning, ships make loud sounds when they arrive
- Reading
- Sharpen visual discrimination skills
- similarities and differences of objects/pictures as to size, length
- identifying missing parts of pictures
- left to right eye movement
- Identify letters that are similar/different in a group of letters
4: Sounds and Letters - Listening
- Identify speech sounds heard
- Initial and final consonant and vowel sounds e.g. /f/ vs. /p/; /e/ vs. /iy/
- Speaking
- Produce words listened to with
- initial and final consonant sounds
- initial and medial vowel sounds
- Reading
- Associate names of objects/pictures with their printed symbols e. g. words with
- initial and final consonant sounds
- critical consonants and vowel sounds
- Writing
- Write the letters of the alphabet according to:
5: Rhymes - Listening
- Identify words that rhyme in poems and/jingles
- Speaking
- Recite rhymes, jingles with correct intonation and stress
- Reading
- Sing/Act rhymes, poems, jingles
6: High Frequency Words - Listening
- Recognize rising and falling intonation and meanings they signal
- yes-no questions
- wh-questions
- statements
- Speaking
- Talk about oneself/others/things
- Use singular form of nouns
- this/that is with objects
- a and an in naming objects
- Use plural form of nouns
- noun + s
- these are/those are + noun
- Reading
- Read orally high frequency words in running print - Dolch Basic Sight Words
- Increase one' vocabulary
- words about family members
- labels and sign in school
- synonyms and antonyms
- Identify the parts of a book
- cover, title, table of contents
- Writing
- Write words and phrases
- Copying from a model- name, grade, school
- Dolch Basic Sight Word- days of the week
7: Getting the Main Idea - Listening
- Give the main idea of a selection heard
- Speaking
- Use personal pronouns
- Use the pronoun that agrees in gender with its Antecedent
- Writing
- Copy paragraph with 2 to 3 sentences
- use the correct punctuation mark
8: Noting Details - Listening
- Note details in a selection heard
- answering wh-questions
- identifying setting, characters, events
- Select the details of a story heard from a set of pictures
- Speaking
- Use Verbs - simple present form
- Use –ing form of the verb in response to:
- What is ______ doing? _______ is cooking.
- What are ______ doing? ______ are playing.
- Use the verb to be (am, is, are) with nouns and pronouns as subject
- Reading
- Answer wh-questions based on stimuli presented Objects:
- composite pictures
- experience charts
- Writing
- Write from dictation
- common words
- phrases
- simple sentences
9: Sequencing Events - Listening
- Tell the sequence of events in a story heard through pictures
- Act out best liked parts of a story heard
- Speaking
- Use the simple past form of the verb (regular verb)
- Reading
- Organize ideas
- grouping pictures based on similar ideas
- select appropriate heading for a:
- set of related pictures
- set of words/phrases
- set of sentences
- Tell what the picture or a series of pictures is about
- Tell what the story is about
- composite pictures e.g. a garden scene
- solo pictures e.g. a red rose
- Tell the sequence of natural events
- plant growth
- life stages of animals
- Tell what happen first, second, last in a series of Pictures
- Writing
- Write names of common objects learned in listening and speaking
- common signs in the classrooms
10: Perceiving Relationships - Listening
- React to what the character said/did on a story listened to
- Speaking
- Use words that describe person, animals, places(adjectives)
- Use the positive form of regular adjectives
- Talk about topics of interest in 2-3 sentences
- Reading
- Perceive relationship
- source e.g. egg-chicken
- function e. g. tables
- part-whole e.g. eyes-face
- Writing
- Write sentences using synonyms and antonyms to describe objects
- Write sentences about one's self and family
11: Making Inferences - Listening
- Infer the feeling/traits of characters in a story heard
- Reading
- Predict outcomes
- give the possible ending of a series of pictures/given events
- tell what would happen next to a set of pictures
- Infer
- what a person or animal does
- what has happened before or after an event
- Writing
- Compose greetings in cards e. g. Happy Birthday
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