Standard 2: Reading and Writing Process

Students will use a variety of recursive reading and writing processes.

Reading

Students will read and comprehend increasingly complex literary and informational texts.

Writing

Students will develop and strengthen writing by engaging in a recursive process that includes prewriting, drafting, revising, editing, and publishing.

Student Actions 

Teacher Actions 

PK.2.R Students will begin to retell or re-enact major events from a read aloud with guidance and support to recognize the main idea.

With guidance and support:

• Students will begin to restate or dramatize a familiar story, putting key details in sequential order.

• Teachers read or tell familiar stories to the class.

• Teachers lead students in putting stories in chronological order using transitional words (beginning, middle, end).

• Teachers model how to act out portions of stories (with or without props).

• Teachers provide opportunities for students to restate or re-enact stories.

• Teachers monitor and provide opportunities for students to receive feedback about the order of events in familiar stories.

With guidance and support:

• Students will begin to identify the main topic of a text.

Student Actions 

Teacher Actions 

PK.2.W Students will begin to express themselves through drawing, dictating, and emergent writing.

• Students will begin to communicate thoughts and opinions through drawing.

•  Teachers model and demonstrate how to communicate their thoughts and opinions through drawing.

• Teachers provide opportunities for students to draw to share their thoughts and opinions.

• Teachers monitor and provide opportunities for students to receive feedback about student’s drawing.

• Students will begin to communicate thoughts and opinions through dictating.

• Teachers write what the students say about their thoughts and opinions.

• Teachers model emergent writing: scribbles, letter-like forms, random letters, beginning sounds, etc.

• Teachers provide opportunities for students to use emergent writing to share their thoughts and opinions.

• Teachers monitor and provide opportunities for students to receive feedback about student’s writing.

• Students will begin to communicate thoughts and opinions through emergent writing.