Standard 1: Speaking and Listening

Students will speak and listen effectively in a variety of situations including, but not limited to, responses to reading and writing.

Reading

Students will develop and apply effective communication skills through speaking and active listening. 

Writing

Students will develop and apply effective communication skills through speaking and active listening to create individual and group projects and presentations. 

Student Actions 

Teacher Actions 

With guidance and support:

• Students will show they are listening by looking at the speaker.

• Teachers explain and model what it looks like to actively listen to a speaker.

• Teachers provide opportunities to practice what it looks like when someone is actively listening.

• Teachers monitor and provide verbal and/or nonverbal cues to remind students how to actively listen to a speaker.

With guidance and support:

• Students will take turns when speaking.

• Teachers explain and model how to take turns when speaking with a partner, a small group, and the whole class.

• Teachers provide students with opportunities to take turns while speaking to a partner, a small group, and the whole class.

• Teachers monitor and provide verbal and/or nonverbal cues to remind students how to take turns when speaking.

• Teachers provide opportunities for students to receive feedback while taking turns speaking.

With guidance and support:

• Students will begin to ask and answer questions about a topic or text.

• Teachers explain and model how to ask and answer questions during class discussions while interacting with a text or different types of media.

• Teachers provide opportunities for students to answer questions given by the teacher.

• Teachers provide opportunities for students to generate questions about a topic.

• Teachers monitor and provide prompting and support while students are developing or answering questions.

• Teachers provide opportunities for students to receive feedback when asking and answering questions.

With guidance and support:

• Students will participate in structured conversations about age-appropriate topics and texts.

• Teachers model age-appropriate structured conversations and interactions.

• Teachers create daily opportunities and guide age-appropriate structured conversations and interactions about topics and texts.

• Teacher monitor and provide opportunities for students to receive  feedback while participating in structured conversations about topics and texts

With guidance and support:

• Students will practice speaking to listeners of all ages and in groups of varying size.

• Teachers lead a class discussion about how your audience determines the way you speak.

• Teachers model appropriate ways to speak to various audiences.

• Teachers provide opportunities for students to practice speaking to different audiences.

• Teachers monitor and provide opportunities for students to receive feedback while speaking to different audiences.

• Students will complete simple tasks given to them verbally. 

• Teachers model completing simple tasks.

• Teachers provide opportunities for students to practice completing verbal tasks.

• Teachers monitor and provide feedback completing simple tasks.

Student Actions

Teacher Actions 

PK.1.W.1 Students will begin to orally describe personal interests or tell stories to classmates with guidance and support.

With guidance and support:

• Students will describe familiar people, places, and events.

• Teachers model by describing familiar people, places, and events.
• Teachers provide opportunities for students to describe familiar people, places or events.
• Teachers monitor and provide opportunities for students to receive feedback when describing familiar people, places, or events. 

With guidance and support:

• Students will describe memorable events such as birthdays, holidays, vacations, etc.

• Teachers model by describing a memorable event from their life.

• Teachers provide opportunities for students to describe a memorable event in their life.

• Teachers monitor and provide opportunities for students to receive feedback when describing memorable events.

With guidance and support:

• Students will share fictional stories.

• Teachers model by sharing fictional stories.

• Teachers create shared writing stories with the students.

• Teachers provide opportunities for students to create their own fictional stories.

• Teachers monitor and provide opportunities for students to receive feedback when sharing fictional stories.

With guidance and support:

• Students will follow agreed-upon rules of respect to work with others.

• Teachers discuss respectfully working with others.

• Teachers provide expectations for respectfully working with others.

• Teachers provide opportunities for students to practice working respectfully with others using the agreed-upon rules.

• Teachers monitor and provide opportunities for students to receive feedback while working respectfully with others.