The Skills strand of the Core Knowledge Language Arts program teaches students the decoding skills needed for (future) independent reading. Each Skills lesson begins with a warm-up, reviewing previously taught content in reading, writing, and/or grammar.
By the end of this unit, students will be able to:
1. Demonstrate understanding of directionality (left to right, return sweep, top to bottom, front to back);
2. Blend syllable to form words;
3. Listen to one-syllable words and tell the beginning or ending sounds, e.g., given dog, identify initial /d/ or final /g/;
4. Orally blend sounds to form words, e.g., given the sounds /k/.../a/.../t/, blend to make cat;
5. Add or substitute phonemes to spoken one-syllable words;
6. Speak audibly and express thoughts, feelings, and ideas clearly;
7. Hold a writing utensil with a tripod (or pincer) grip and make marks on paper;
8. Write own name; and
9. Use spatial words: there, here; in, on; in front of, behind; at the top of; at the bottom of; under, over; above, below; next to, in the middle of; near, far; inside, outside; around, between; up, down; high, low; left, right; front, back.
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These resources, developed by the New York State Education Department, provide standard-level scaffolding suggestions for English Language Learners (ELLs) to help them meet grade-level demands. Each resource contains scaffolds at multiple levels of language acquisition and describes the linguistic demands of the standards to help ELA teachers as well as ESL/bilingual teachers scaffold content for their English learning students.