EPIC Teacher's Guide - Book - Page 347
EPIC / UNIT 5
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Can-do Descriptors
Listening and Speaking:
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Can follow simple instructions in imperative form
Can listen and follow simple directions related to storybooks teacher reads in class
Can listen and respond with appropriate gestures to songs and chants teacher sings in class
Can understand the 200 words in the Pre-Foundation Band I list that have been explicitly taught
Can repeat simple instructions
Can ask and answer simple questions using vocabulary/language chunks from the Pre-Foundation Band I list
Can use repetitive patterns with some variation through listening to and participating in authentic storybook,
songs and chants experiences
Can participate in choral recitation after hearing and practicing models of language use
Can act out parts of a story
Can modify a story/song orally
Can express like/dislikes repeating the sentence pattern “I like…”
Can participate in classroom routines
Can use short conversational chunks of language for basic communication
Can discriminate between familiar and novel phonemes when they are spoken
Can pronounce novel phonemes
Can repeat one and 2-3 syllable words
Can repeat phrases containing words that together amount to more than 3 syllables
Can repeat individual sentences
Oral Phonemic Awareness, Segmentation and Blending:
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Can identify rhyming words and produce rhymes
Can divide words into syllables and manipulate sounds and syllables within words
Can identify initial/final/medial sounds in words
Can hear a stimulus word and say words that rhyme with it
Can count the number of syllables in a word
Can say the individual syllables in words
Can identify and say the same initial phoneme in different spoken words
Can identify and say a spoken word from a set of 3-4 words that has "the odd sound"
Can identify and say onsets in single syllable words
Can identify and say the rime in a word
Can blend phonemes into a word
Can count the number of phonemes in a word
Can segment one syllable words into phonemes
Can reverse the activity presented
Can make a new spoken word by adding a phoneme to an existing word
Can manipulate phonemes in words
Can demonstrate knowledge of grapheme-phoneme correspondences
Can automatically identify graphemes and say the phoneme associated with each grapheme
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