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1. The Course Organizer Teacher(s): Student: Time: Course Dates: • Course Measures • Foundational Reading Skills • Emergent Literacy Survey • LIPs Checklists • Informational Text, Literature • Checklists • Running records • Anecdotal Notes • Journal Responses (Dictation, drawing, writing) • Oral Assessments (speaking, dictation) • Graphic Organizers • Photographic Evidence • Speaking and Listening • Performance Assessments (following steps, procedures) • Checklists • Writing - Developmentally appropriate progression of writing skills. • Response to prompts • Graphic organizers • Checklist for writing process • Checklist for grammar and usage • Journal Responses • Shared and individual writingproject This Course: Pre-K/ Kindergarten Language Arts Developing effective communicators by exploring the relationship between ideas, the spoken word and the written word through speaking, listening, reading and writing. is about Course Questions: • What is communication? (What does it look like, sound like…?) • Why do we communicate? (learn, share info, to express feelings, have needs met…) • In what ways do we acquire and transmit meaning? • How does communication help me learn? • When do I use various forms of communication, which structure should I use? Rationale: To communicate effectively, students need to know their purpose (function) and choose a structurethat meets their purpose. Once a structure is chosen, students will use relationships and patterns to make connections, generalizations and meaning.

2. This Course: Student: Course Map includes Kindergarten Language Arts Learning Rituals Community Principles Processing and Performance Options • Rubrics must be used to determine the level of performance for: • Observations • Anecdotal notes • Performance Tasks with Product • Pictures or drawings • Photographic evidence • Checklists • Unit Tests • Oral assessments • Journal writing • Rubrics Whole Group Small Group Peer tutoring Independent Centers Cooperative Learning Strategies-Kagan Modeling Visual Strategies Respect for others Teamwork Sharing Responsibility Self-regulation Problem Solving Critical Concepts Learned in the units (See next page)