HEROES Teacher's Guide - Book - Page 154
HEROES / UNIT 3
Going Places
Global Can-do Statements
Spoken Reception Can-do Statements:
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Can recognize Pre-Foundation Band I vocabulary including instructions, provided they are delivered clearly
and slowly in a well-defined, familiar, everyday context.
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/herself and say how he/she is feeling.
Can recite and sing using appropriate stress, rhythm and intonation.
Interaction Can-do Statements:
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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 follow simple directions related to storybooks teacher reads in class.
Can listen and respond with appropriate gestures to songs and chants the 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 answer simple questions using language chunks and vocabulary from the Pre-Foundation Band I.
Can ask simple questions using vocabulary from the Pre-Foundation Band I.
Can use repetitive patterns from 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 participate in classroom routines by repeating a phrase that exchanges or conveys basic information.
Can use short conversational chunks of language for basic communication.
Phonological Representations:
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Can discriminate between familiar and novel phonemes when they are spoken.
Can pronounce novel phonemes.
Can repeat one syllable words and 2-3 syllable words.
Can repeat phrases containing words that together amount to more than 3 syllables in isolation.
Can repeat individual sentences.
Phonological Awareness:
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Can divide words into syllables and manipulate phonemes and syllables within words.
Can identify initial/final/medial sounds in words.
Can say the individual syllables in words and count them.
Can identify and say the same initial phoneme in different spoken words.
Can identify and say onsets and rimes in single syllable words.
Can count the number of phonemes in a word.
Can segment one syllable words into phonemes.
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