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ELA-3K-1.5
Repeat words or actions from a favorite story
read aloud.
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Demonstrates while playing in the Home
Living Center. The way the monkeys
threw down their hats in Caps for Sale.
Says “It won’t come up” while pretending
to plant seeds in the sand table after
hearing The Carrot Seed.
ELA-3K-1.6
Use pictures and adult reader’s expression to
experience mood and meaning of text
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Shows excitement for the reader to turn
each page to see and hear what happens
next to the strawberry in The Big Hungry
Bear.
Matches her voice to the reader’s as she
chimes in on Brown Bear, Brown Bear.
ELA-4K-1.5
Retell one or two events from a story read aloud.
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Tells a friend that Henny Penny thinks that
the sky is falling down but it’s really an acorn
after hearing The Little Red Hen read.
Lists several of the things that the baby bird
encounters on his search for his mother in
the book Are You My Mother?
ELA-4K-1.6
Begin to identify significant words from text read
aloud.
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Suggests why the author named the bunny
the “Hippity-Hoppity Bunny” in the book The
Hippity Hoppity Bunny.
Suggests after hearing the book Oonga
Boonga that the baby’s wails stopped
because Daniel “whispered”.
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ELA-K-1.5
Generate a retelling that identifies the characters
and the setting in a story and relates
the important events in sequential order.
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Uses a flannel board to retell a familiar
story.
Writes or draws a condensed version of a
story read.
Tells a friend about the story such as The
Very Busy Spider, including the order in
which the animals spoke to the spider.
ELA-K-1.6
Discuss how the author’s choice of words
affects the meaning of the text. (For example,
yell rather than said).
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Points out that the words “but he was still
hungry” were repeated on different pages
because the author wanted you to know
why the caterpillar continued to eat.
Says that when the author says that the
elephant “trumpeted”, you knew he was
really loud.