Speaking

1. Speaking Standards

SL.K.1. Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about kindergarten topics and texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups.

• Follow agreed-upon rules for discussions (e.g., listening to others and taking turns speaking about the topics and texts under discussion).
• Continue a conversation through multiple exchanges.

Assessment:  Daily participation and interaction in the classroom.

SL.K.2. Confirm understanding of a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media by asking and answering questions about key details and requesting clarification if something is not understood.

            Assessment:  Daily participation and interaction in the classroom.

SL.K.3. Ask and answer questions in order to seek help, get information, or clarify something that is not understood.

            Assessment:  Daily participation and interaction in the classroom.

SL.K.4. Describe familiar people, places, things, and events and, with prompting and support, provide additional detail.

            Assessment:  Daily participation and interaction in the classroom.

SL.K.5. Add drawings or other visual displays to descriptions as desired to provide additional detail.

            Assessment:  Daily participation and interaction in the classroom.

SL.K.6. Speak audibly and express thoughts, feelings, and ideas clearly.

            Assessment:  Daily participation and interaction in the classroom.

            ____  Student participates in conversations with peers and adults

            ____  Student demonstrates appropriate conversation behaviors (eye contact, turn taking,

audible speaking voice, stays on topic…)

            ____  Student asks questions to clarify

            _____  Student can describe things and add details

____  Student can use visual display to provide additional detail

2. Vocabulary/Social Skills

L.K.4. Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on kindergarten reading and content.

• Identify new meanings for familiar words and apply them accurately (e.g., knowing duck is a bird and learning the verb to duck).
• Use the most frequently occurring inflections and affixes (e.g., -ed, -s, re-, un-, pre-, -ful, -less) as a clue to the meaning of an unknown word.

Assessment:  Daily classroom conversations.

L.K.5. With guidance and support from adults, explore word relationships and nuances in word meanings.

• Sort common objects into categories (e.g., shapes, foods) to gain a sense of the concepts the categories represent.
• Demonstrate understanding of frequently occurring verbs and adjectives by relating them to their opposites (antonyms).
• Identify real-life connections between words and their use (e.g., note places at school that are colorful).
• Distinguish shades of meaning among verbs describing the same general action (e.g., walk, march, strut, prance) by acting out the meanings.

Assessment:  Checklist

            ___ Sort common objects into categories (e.g., shapes, foods) to gain a sense

of the concepts the categories represent.

___ Demonstrate understanding of frequently occurring verbs and adjectives by relating them to their opposites (antonyms).

___ Identify real-life connections between words and their use (e.g., note places at school that are colorful).

___ Distinguuish shades of meaning among verbs describing the same general action (e.g., walk, march, strut, prance) by acting out the meanings.

L.K.6. Use words and phrases acquired through conversations, reading and being read to, and responding to texts.

Assessment:  Daily conversations