EPIC Teacher's Guide - Book - Page 48
EPIC / UNIT 1
Making Friends
Global Can-do Statements
Spoken Reception Can-do Statements:
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Can recognize everyday, familiar words, including instruction, provided they are delivered clearly and slowly
in a well-defined, familiar, everyday context.
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Can understand short, very simple questions and statements provided that they are delivered slowly and
clearly and accompanied by visuals or manual gestures to support understanding and repeated if necessary.
Spoken Production Can-do Statements:
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Can use everyday words and phrases for a limited range of everyday functions.
Can describe him or herself.
Interaction Can-do Statements:
• Can ask and answer questions related to personal information using short formulaic expressions and using
gestures when necessary.
Can-do Descriptors
Listening and Speaking:
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Can follow simple instructions in imperative form
Can listen and respond with appropriate gestures to songs and chants teacher sings in class
Can understand (some of) 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 participate in choral recitation after hearing and practicing models of language use
Can act out parts of a story
Can pronounce novel phonemes
Can repeat one 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 initial sounds in words
Can identify and say the same initial phoneme in different spoken words
Can identify and say onsets in single syllable words
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