Speaking and Listening for Preschool Through Third Grade
The Standard - Talking a Lot in Preschool
Preschoolers need to talk a lot to develop oral language skills. Activities involving high-quality, purposeful talk and attentive feedback are critical for the development of language skills. An informal, snack-time discussion provides an opportunity for students to demonstrate meeting the following speaking and listening expectations for preschool children:
- Respond to direct questions
- Talk and listen in small groups
- Share and talk daily about their own experiences, products, or writing
Real Kids in Real Classrooms
See this standard demonstrated by kids in a real preschool classroom in this video clip from Speaking and Listening for Preschool Through Third Grade's companion DVD.
How They Meet the Standard
Hear a detailed commentary on the children's performance in the accompanying audio commentary from the DVD.
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Speaking and Listening for Preschool Through Third Grade, Revised Edition
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Lauren B. Resnick, Catherine E. Snow
© 2009 / 208 pp. /ISBN 978-0-87207-769-0
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Reading and Writing Grade by Grade
The Standard - Discussing Books in Third Grade
By third grade, students are expanding their discussion of books to include themes and content, author's craft, and inferred meanings of the text.
A book discussion about making connections between their knowledge of Japanese culture and their current reading of Pearl S. Buck's novel The Big Wave gives this third grade class an opportunity to demonstrate their skill with these expectations:
- Referring to knowledge built during discussion
- Using information that is accurate, accessible, and relevant
Real Kids in Real Classrooms
See this book discussion with a teacher and her third grade class in a video clip from Reading and Writing Grade by Grade's companion DVD.
How They Meet the Standard
Hear a detailed commentary on the performance of these third graders in the accompanying audio commentary from the DVD.
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Reading and Writing Grade by Grade, Revised Edition
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Lauren B. Resnick, Sally Hampton
© 2009 / 264 pp. /ISBN 978-0-87207-768-3
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Reading and Writing With Understanding: Comprehension in Fourth and Fifth Grades
The Standard - Writing Different Kinds of Texts in Fourth and Fifth Grade
Fourth and fifth graders are expected to produce many different kinds of writing. Content area writing becomes even more important in these grades as students are challenged to express their understanding of various academic subjects through writing. Criteria for evaluation reflect each content area's values. For example, in history writing one criterion for evaluation is authenticity of sources; in science, the scientific validity of the writer's conceptual framework would be evaluated. Clarity of expression, coherence of ideas, and correctness is important regardless of subject matter.
Real Kids in Real Classrooms
The following writing sample is part of a report on crystals created by Samantha, a fourth grade student. This report demonstrates this student's proficiency in writing an informational text on a science subject.
How She Meets the Standard
Reading and Writing With Understanding's detailed commentary about this writing sample is excerpted below:
The proficiency exhibited in this excerpt is typical of the text as a whole. The writing is almost completely free of error. The illustrations represent the concepts being described. The evidence is strong that Samantha has conceptual understanding of crystals because the illustrations are linked to the text…She provides accurate and sufficient information to inform a reader. The information is written in such a way as to be accessible to readers.
Reading and Writing with Understanding brings together numerous commentaries on student work such as this—along with scholarly research, classroom applications, and student performances—to create a vivid, richly textured picture of fourth and fifth graders engaged in comprehending and composing meaning.
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Reading and Writing With Understanding: Comprehension in Fourth and Fifth Grades
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Sally Hampton, Lauren B. Resnick
© 2009 / 152 pp. /ISBN 978-0-87207-767-6
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Developed as part of the influential New Standards project, Reading and Writing Grade by Grade, Speaking and Listening in Preschool Through Third Grade, and Reading and Writing with Understanding: Comprehension in Fourth and Fifth Grades are informed by the best thinking and research of a committee of distinguished educators.