This early literacy class has many goals.  This class should build students' ability to:
• comprehend with increasing accuracy what they hear in conversations and in stories read aloud.
• demonstrate understanding through their questions, comments, and actions. 
• use nonverbal gestures to show a response to adults and peers (e.g., nodding/smiling to show
understanding/agreement, tilting head/frowning face to show confusion, or giving a thumbs
up/down or to respond to questions)
• appropriately contribute to discussions by commenting or asking questions
• participate in songs and/or dances that require the response of various movements or gestures
• participate successfully in games (such as “Simon Says”)
• have multiple‐turn conversations with others, listening to others or extending/connecting to an
idea expressed by the other person
• speak loud enough so that what is being said can be heard
• articulate individual words in a sentence
• enunciate each sound or syllable in words
• use appropriate intonation to represent emotion
• appropriately identify items seen in real life, books, or pictures, naturally incorporating new
terminology
• use newly learned words to describe or explain in detail things seen in real life, books, or
pictures
• use descriptive language to compare, contrast, and categorize objects, people, and actions