-basic education curriculum -english -learning competencies -Grade I-VI -6 key strategies in teaching English

1. Concerned with
developing
competence in

2. Access varied information and creatively use
them in spoken and written forms;
communicate fluently and accurately orally
and in writing, for a variety of purposes and
different social and academic contexts at
their level while carrying out activities in
everyday life.

3. At the end of Grade I the learner is
expected to:
Recognize differences
Speak clearly and use appropriate
expressions
Read with ease and understanding
beginner’s books in English
Write legibly information about oneself

4. At the end of Grade II the learner is
expected to:
Listen critically 1-2 paragraphs
Use appropriate expressions
Read critically and fluently
Write legibly simple sentences in
cursive form

5. At the end of Grade III the learner is
expected to:
Listen critically to get information
Demonstrate independence
Read with comprehension

6. At the end of Grade IV the learner is
expected to:
Listen critically to news reports, radio
broadcasts and express ideas
Demonstrate more independence
Read independently and get information

7. At the end of Grade V the learner is
expected to:
Listen critically to different text types
Express ideas logically
Demonstrate interest

8. At the end of Grade VI the learner is
expected to:
Listen critically
Communicate one’s feeling and ideas
Read various text types materials

10. Grade I
listening
1. Respond
appropriately to
expressions
2. Follow simple onestep direction heard
3. Identify specific
sounds
speaking
1. Use expressions
listened to
2. Give short
commands and
directions
3. Talk about meanings
of sound signals
heard

11. Grade I
Reading
1. recognize words
commonly heard
2. Identify common
printed materials
3. Sharpen visual
discrimination skills
writing
1. Demonstrate
writing readiness
skills
2. Trace and copy lines
3. Write
legibly, accurately in
manuscript

12. Grade II
listening
1. Identify speech
sounds heard
2. Recognize the rising
and falling
intonation
3. Identify words that
rhyme
speaking
1. Improve
pronunciation skills
2. 2. ask and answer
questions
3. Give commands/
directions

13. Grade II
Reading
1. Associate names of
objects pictures
2. Increase one’s
vocabulary
3. Do accurately slow
reading
Writing
1. Copy
legibly, accurately
and neatly in
manuscript
2. Use capital letters
3. Copy paragraph

14. Grade III
Listening
1. Identify words
2. Identify words that
rhyme
3. Recognize the rising
falling intonation
Speaking
1. Increase one’s
speaking vocabulary
2. Recite
3. Use courteous
expressions

15. Grade III
Reading
1. Recognize words
using spelling
patterns
2. Read orally 1-2
stanza poems
3. Read orally
conversations
Writing
1. Write legibly and
neatly
2. Write contractions
correctly
3. Write different kinds
of sentences

16. Grade IV
Listening
1. Distinguish rising
and falling
intonation
2. Identify the stressed
and unstressed
syllables
3. Recognize pauses
and stops
Speaking
1. Use
2. Give series of
directions
3. Use courteous
expressions

17. Grade IV
Reading
1. Decode words in
stories read
2. Use the dictionary
3. Do accurate and
slow reading
Writing
1. Write the correct
spelling of words
2. Write
sentences/paragrap
hs
3. Write from dictation

18. Grade V
Listening
1. Distinguish changes
2. Follow series of
directions
3. Give titles to
paragraphs/ stories
Speaking
1. Increase one’s
speaking vocabulary
2. Make simple and
accurate
descriptions
3. Use plural form of
nouns

19. Grade V
Reading
1. Decode meaning of
unfamiliar words
2. Follow printed
directions
3. Get the main idea
Writing
1. Write the correct
spelling
2. Fill out school forms
correctly
3. Write a paragraph

20. Grade VI
Listening
1. Distinguish changes
in meaning of
sentences
2. Follow a series of
directions
3. Give the main idea
Speaking
1. Increase one’s
speaking vocabulary
2. Use courteous
expressions
3. Ask and answer
questions

21. Grade VI
Reading
1. Decode meaning
2. Follow a series of
directions
3. Tell the big
ideas/key concepts
Writing
1. Write a composition
2. Write specific
directions
3. Write a model
composition

23. STRATEGY #1 Vocabulary &
Language Development
Academic Language
1. Engage beginninglevel students in
using basic social &
school
vocabulary, phrases,
& sentence
structures.
Sample Activities/
Assessments

24. STRATEGY #1 Vocabulary &
Language Development
Academic Language
Sample Activities/
Assessments
2. As students
progress, continue to
contextualize
instruction of more
complex language
forms & uses

25. STRATEGY #1 Vocabulary &
Language Development
Academic Language
3. Respectfully
distinguish
differences between
primary language
use & standard
academic English.
Sample Activities/
Assessments

26. STRATEGY #1 Vocabulary &
Language Development
Academic Language
Sample Activities/
Assessments
1. Word analysis
2. Vocabulary
journals, A-B-C
books, word
webs, word walls
3. dictations

27. STRATEGY #2 Guided Interaction
Academic Language
1. Structure multiple
opportunities for
peer-to-peer
interactions to
increase
speaking, listening, r
eading
comprehension &
writing skills
Sample Activities/
Assessments

28. STRATEGY #2 Guided Interaction
Academic Language
2. Support language
interactions with
review/preview of
language forms, use
of graphic organizers
or other types of
modeling.
Sample Activities/
Assessments

29. STRATEGY #2 Guided Interaction
Academic Language
Sample Activities/
Assessments
1. Partner
interviews, Class
surveys
2. Poster
projects, group
presentations

30. STRATEGY #3 Metacognition and
Authentic Assessment
Academic Language
Sample Activities/
Assessments
1. ensure that
assessment tasks are
appropriate to
students’ assessed
language
development level.

31. STRATEGY #3 Metacognition and
Authentic Assessment
Academic Language
Sample Activities/
Assessments
2. Provide enough time
to complete
tasks, appropriate
feedback, rubrics, &
models to guide
students’ selfassessment.

32. STRATEGY #3 Metacognition and
Authentic Assessment
Academic Language
Sample Activities/
Assessments
1. Guided
reading, completing
chapter pre-reading
guides.
2. Thinkalouds,
K-W-L.

33. STRATEGY #4 Explicit Instruction
Academic Language
1. Teach essential
language forms &
uses per students’
assessed language
development level.
Sample Activities/
Assessments

34. STRATEGY #4 Explicit Instruction
Academic Language
2. Follow
contextualized
introduction &
explicit modeling of
language use with
repeated practice.
Sample Activities/
Assessments

35. STRATEGY #4 Explicit Instruction
Academic Language
Sample Activities/
Assessments
1. reading
directions, idioms, s
entence
starters, essay
formats, pattern
drills, or completing
a story map; check
for understanding

37. STRATEGY #4 Explicit Instruction
Academic Language
Sample Activities/
Assessments
2. task
procedures, answeri
ng questions, word
problems, understan
ding text & graphics.

38. STRATEGY #5 Meaning-Based
Context & Universal Themes
Academic Language
Sample Activities/
Assessments
1. Use methods listed
above for
introducing
academic
vocabulary, sentence
structures, &
language uses.

39. STRATEGY #5 Meaning-Based
Context & Universal Themes
Academic Language
Sample Activities/
Assessments
2. Link ongoing
language practice or
tasks to both schoolbased & communitybased uses.

40. STRATEGY #5 Meaning-Based
Context & Universal Themes
Academic Language
3. Respectfully
compare & analyze
language use, &
meanings to other
cultures or
context, to promote
metacognition.
Sample Activities/
Assessments

41. STRATEGY #5 Meaning-Based
Context & Universal Themes
Academic Language
Sample Activities/
Assessments
1. current event
stories, real-life
models, video
clips, teacher readalouds, role-play

42. STRATEGY #5 Meaning-Based
Context & Universal Themes
Academic Language
Sample Activities/
Assessments
2. Identifying &
analyzing different
perspectives &
language references

43. STRATEGY #6 Modeling, Graphic
Organizers & Visuals
Academic Language
1. Use of word
banks, word walls, &
modeling the use of
graphic organizers
Sample Activities/
Resources

44. STRATEGY #6 Modeling, Graphic
Organizers & Visuals
Academic Language
2. Appropriately
modulate language
delivery, i.e., speed
& enunciation
Sample Activities/
Resources

45. STRATEGY #6 Modeling, Graphic
Organizers & Visuals
Academic Language
Sample Activities/
Resources
1. Venn
diagrams, story
maps, main idea +
supporting detail
schematics, doubleentry
journals, semantic
attribute matrices.

46. STRATEGY #6 Modeling, Graphic
Organizers & Visuals
Academic Language
Sample Activities/
Resources
2. Jazz chants, readalouds

47. That’s all Folks!
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