Content Standard: A. Process of Reading
Students will use the skills and strategies of the reading process to comprehend, interpret, evaluate, and appreciate what they have read.
Common Assessment:

Performance Indicators Students will be able to:	Essential Elements (Specific grade level learning objectives)		Suggested Performance Activities		Suggested Assessments	Vocabulary * Indicates a word the teacher uses to help students start to understand
1. Seek out and enjoy experiences with books and other print materials.	Students will share orally favorite reading materials.		Children are given the opportunity to explore classroom books, songs, poems, charts. Resources: Teacher makes available many varieties of reading materials for student choice and teacher selection: --poetry --fiction --non-fiction --songs --fairy tales --nursery rhymes --predictable books --chants --labels --books from different cultures: city vs. country, -holiday books school library videos/film strips		Given several choices, child will talk about or retell favorite stories, songs, or poems.	book charts songs poems retell
3. Make and confirm predictions about what will be found in a text.	Students will give predictions on what will happen in a given book		In listening to a story, children will correctly predict possible outcomes of a story.		Children will give reasonable predictions.	next predict happen
7. Ask questions and give other responses after listening to presentations by the teacher or classmates.	Students will ask on-topic questions and give appropriate responses.		After listening to a classmate or the teacher, children will ask questions about the topic on hand.		Children will ask questions using questions words (see vocabulary)	question who what where when why how