Reading
Course Description
Reading:
Students will learn to have fun and enjoy reading and writing. Students will read across the content areas. They will increase basic sight vocabulary. They will locate the main idea and details in stories. They will recall the sequence of events. Read and follow simple directions. Read selected text with accuracy and understanding. They will become independent readers and use reading to learn about the world around them.
The use of academic ASL is expanding. Children attend to more stories, but the stories are also more complex and students attend to characters, setting, detail, feelings and sequence of events. First grade children also expand their vocabularies; do more retelling of the stories (this helps them to understand the stories' logic in terms of beginnings, middle, and ends); create mental images of what they see and describe these images; fingerspelling and handshapes; relate their ideas; take part in conversations and discussions; learn to take messages and pass them on; and learn an increasing array of ASL features with many opportunities to "perform" what they have learned. Students will develop expressive language with eye contact, sign clarity, fluency, body space and facial expressions.
Students will learn to have fun and enjoy reading and writing. Students will read across the content areas. They will increase basic sight vocabulary. They will locate the main idea and details in stories. They will recall the sequence of events. Read and follow simple directions. Read selected text with accuracy and understanding. They will become independent readers and use reading to learn about the world around them.
The use of academic ASL is expanding. Children attend to more stories, but the stories are also more complex and students attend to characters, setting, detail, feelings and sequence of events. First grade children also expand their vocabularies; do more retelling of the stories (this helps them to understand the stories' logic in terms of beginnings, middle, and ends); create mental images of what they see and describe these images; fingerspelling and handshapes; relate their ideas; take part in conversations and discussions; learn to take messages and pass them on; and learn an increasing array of ASL features with many opportunities to "perform" what they have learned. Students will develop expressive language with eye contact, sign clarity, fluency, body space and facial expressions.