MAGICAL Teacher's Guide - Book - Page 53
Playing with spoken language
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Can take part in age-appropriate, level-appropriate games that use formulaic expressions or rhymes
Can re-tell parts of a story (with or without pictures) read by the teacher or from previous knowledge
Written production
Overall written production
Can write simple isolated phrases and sentences using level-appropriate language (vocabulary and grammar) and
spelling that approximates accurate conventions based on a developmental continuum
Creative writing
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Can write about themselves and fictitious people
Can describe certain everyday objects
PRODUCTION STRATEGIES
Compensating
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Can use gestures instead of or to support simple words in expressing a need.
INTERACTION ACTIVITIES
Spoken interaction
Overall spoken interaction
Can engage in limited interactions (restricted in the number of turn-takings and scope) where communication may
involve repetition, at a slower rate of speech and rephrasing
Understanding the interlocutor
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Can understand everyday expressions aimed at the satisfaction of simple needs of a concrete type, delivered
directly to him/her in clear, slow, and repeated speech by a sympathetic speaker
Can understand questions and instructions addressed carefully and slowly to him/her and follow short,
simple directions
Conversation
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Can take part in a simple conversation of a basic factual nature on a predictable topic
Can introduce people and use basic greetings and leave-taking expressions
Can ask how people are
Informal and formal discussions
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Can exchange likes and dislikes when addressed clearly, slowly, and directly
Goal-oriented co-operation
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Can act on short, basic instructions that involve times, locations, numbers, etc.
Can ask people for things and give people things
Obtaining goods and services
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Can ask people for basic products and give people basic products
Information exchange
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Can ask and answer simple questions in areas of immediate need or on very familiar topics
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