LISTENING:

• Listening for specific purposes

• Listen appreciatively and responsively in small or large groups

• Begin to appreciate and effectively use different voice tones

• Appreciation of the importance of listening to gain information

• Evaluate and express opinions about stories, poems, and questions with increasing confidence

• Begin to anticipate and predict when listening to texts

• Listen effectively in order to summarize, sequence, and relate events and stories

• Pick out main events and relevant points of a story

• Understand and respond to classroom commands, instructions, and messages

SPEAKING:

• Speak clearly in order to be understood

• Use speech to establish a relationship with others

• Begin to appreciate the spoken word as a means of expression

• Participate in plays, storytelling, role-play and dramatization of stories and poems.

• Ask questions and give appropriate answers

• Use appropriate word order

• Express thoughts, feelings, ideas, and opinions

• Begin to develop specific vocabulary to suit different purposes, e.g. descriptive and comparative

• Be able to give an oral presentation on a given topic ( 2 minutes)

READING

• Enjoy reading and being read to

• Approach a text with confidence and concentration

• Read and retell simple texts with guidance, and with understanding

• Be able to read and understand common signs and labels

• Engage in daily individual silent reading

• Participate in shared reading, guided reading, and read-aloud situations

• Show an interest in a variety of fiction and non-fiction literature

• Recognize different literary styles and genres (letters, lists, recipes, stories, poetry, plays)

• Recognize that a story has a beginning, middle and end, and identify the main idea

• Identify and describe the essential elements of the story (characters, setting, problem, resolution)

• Read text aloud with some fluency, expression, and with regard to punctuation

• Predict what may happen next in a story

• Use simple reference books, dictionaries, and information technology to find information

WRITING:

• Show confidence and a positive attitude towards writing

• Use capital letters, full stops, commas, question marks, exclamation marks, and quotation marks to support meaning

• Begin to use correct word order in extended sentences

• Begin to use appropriate subject-verb agreement

• Accurately spell and use content-specific vocabulary and high-frequency words

• Use simple reference books and dictionaries to help with writing

• Write stories with a simple story structure of 65 to 85 words with a beginning, middle and end, and with the essential elements: characters, setting, problem, resolution.

• Begin to use appropriate process writing (planning, drafting, editing)

• Be able to write in different styles (poems, letters, stories, summaries, and dialogues)

• Learn to edit the work of others in a constructive manner