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Rhett's Observations, Reflections and Research at Burton's School
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General - Best Practices
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Themes and Characters
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Communicative Functions
- More about our Language Functions
- to interact through senses
- to listen and use instructional language
- to greet, take leave and call upon
- to introduce self and others
- to name and identify topical words
- to talk about possessions
- to express emotions
- to express likes
- to express wants
- to express what you have
- to ask/answer questions
- to count and use numbers
- to reason
Four Skills
Listening and Speaking
- I can hear, produce and blend phonemes into words.
- I can identify and name key topic words.
- I can listen, say and remember phrases.
- I can listen and sing parts of songs.
- I can use words and patterns during interactions.
- I can predict basic language patterns through interleaved interactions and context.
- I can memorize and use language functions.
- I can build meaning by combining phrases.
Reading and Writing
- I can identify and name key topic words.
- I can say/read and remember phrases.
- I can access the meaning of phrases from activities and process
- I can recognize graphemes and blend into decodable CVC words.
- I can recognize high frequency and tricky words from the L1 list.
- I can read, understand and roughly translate pattern functions into the L1.
- I can build meaning by combining phrases
Content 3
Words & Patterns
Words 3
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- Being Brave =
- A Broken Arm =
- I Met A Girl =
- Winter is Coming =
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