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Skills available for Alabama pre-K language arts standards

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1 Children will develop listening comprehension skills (receptive language).

LL.P.1.1 Understand and follow spoken directions.
LL.P.1.2 Listen attentively to stories or class discussions.
LL.P.1.3 Demonstrate increased language comprehension skills by retelling or dictating stories from books and classroom experiences.
- What will happen next? (P-K.2)
LL.P.1.4 Begin to use pre-reading skills and strategies (ex.: prior knowledge to text, making predictions about text and using picture clues).

2 Children will develop phonological awareness skills to discriminate the sounds of language.

LL.P.2.1 Discriminate and identify sounds in spoken language.
LL.P.2.2 Recognize common sounds at the beginning of a series of words.
LL.P.2.3 Identify syllables in words.
LL.P.2.4 Identify words that rhyme.
- Choose the picture that rhymes with the word (P-D.3)

3 Children will develop an understanding of new vocabulary.

LL.P.3.1 Name a variety of pictures/objects and/or actions in the natural environment.
LL.P.3.2 Use new and challenging vocabulary words correctly within the context of play or other classroom experiences.
LL.P.3.3 Connect new vocabulary with prior educational experiences.

4 Children will develop speaking skills for the purpose of communication (expressive language).

LL.P.4.1 Express wants and needs.
LL.P.4.2 Respond to questions.
LL.P.4.3 Engage in conversations with peers and adults.
LL.P.4.4 Increase length and grammatical complexity of sentences.
LL.P.4.5 Participate in classroom activities that are repetitive in nature such as songs, rhymes, and finger plays.
LL.P.4.6 Engage in storytelling and pretend play, using oral language.
LL.P.4.7 Show progress in speaking English (for non-English speaking children).

5 Children will develop age-appropriate writing skills.

LL.P.5.1 Experiment with a variety of writing tools and materials.
LL.P.5.2 Progress from using scribbles, shapes, or pictures to represent ideas, to using letter or letter-like symbols, or writing familiar words such as their own names.

6 Children will develop knowledge about the various uses of print and characteristics of written language (concepts about print).

LL.P.6.1 Demonstrate an interest in books and exhibit appropriate book handling skills.
- Identify book parts and features (P-I.1)
LL.P.6.2 Show increasing awareness of environmental print in the classroom, home, and community.
LL.P.6.3 Understand that writing is used as a form of communication for a variety of purposes.
LL.P.6.4 Demonstrate increasing awareness that a word is a unit of print; that letters are grouped to form a word; and that words are separated by spaces.
LL.P.6.5 Show progress in recognizing the association between spoken and written words by following print as it is read aloud.

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1 Children will develop listening comprehension skills (receptive language).

LL.P.1.1 Understand and follow spoken directions.

LL.P.1.2 Listen attentively to stories or class discussions.

LL.P.1.3 Demonstrate increased language comprehension skills by retelling or dictating stories from books and classroom experiences.

LL.P.1.4 Begin to use pre-reading skills and strategies (ex.: prior knowledge to text, making predictions about text and using picture clues).

2 Children will develop phonological awareness skills to discriminate the sounds of language.

LL.P.2.1 Discriminate and identify sounds in spoken language.

LL.P.2.2 Recognize common sounds at the beginning of a series of words.

LL.P.2.3 Identify syllables in words.

LL.P.2.4 Identify words that rhyme.

3 Children will develop an understanding of new vocabulary.

LL.P.3.1 Name a variety of pictures/objects and/or actions in the natural environment.

LL.P.3.2 Use new and challenging vocabulary words correctly within the context of play or other classroom experiences.

LL.P.3.3 Connect new vocabulary with prior educational experiences.

4 Children will develop speaking skills for the purpose of communication (expressive language).

LL.P.4.1 Express wants and needs.

LL.P.4.2 Respond to questions.

LL.P.4.3 Engage in conversations with peers and adults.

LL.P.4.4 Increase length and grammatical complexity of sentences.

LL.P.4.5 Participate in classroom activities that are repetitive in nature such as songs, rhymes, and finger plays.

LL.P.4.6 Engage in storytelling and pretend play, using oral language.

LL.P.4.7 Show progress in speaking English (for non-English speaking children).

5 Children will develop age-appropriate writing skills.

LL.P.5.1 Experiment with a variety of writing tools and materials.

LL.P.5.2 Progress from using scribbles, shapes, or pictures to represent ideas, to using letter or letter-like symbols, or writing familiar words such as their own names.

6 Children will develop knowledge about the various uses of print and characteristics of written language (concepts about print).

LL.P.6.1 Demonstrate an interest in books and exhibit appropriate book handling skills.

LL.P.6.2 Show increasing awareness of environmental print in the classroom, home, and community.

LL.P.6.3 Understand that writing is used as a form of communication for a variety of purposes.

LL.P.6.4 Demonstrate increasing awareness that a word is a unit of print; that letters are grouped to form a word; and that words are separated by spaces.

LL.P.6.5 Show progress in recognizing the association between spoken and written words by following print as it is read aloud.

7 Children will develop alphabet knowledge.

LL.P.7.1 Identify letters of the alphabet, especially letters in own name.

LL.P.7.2 Show progress in identifying the names of letters and the sounds they represent.

LL.P.7.3 Demonstrate increased ability to recognize letters at the beginning of words.