Everyday Literacy: Listening & Speaking Grade PreK - Teacher Edition

The 20 weekly units in grade 1 cover Reading First's Five Essential Components, including:

Oral Vocabulary Development:
Relating new vocabulary to prior knowledge
Identifying and sorting common words (colors, shapes foods)
Describing people, places, things, locations, and actions
Determining the purpose for listening (getting information, solving problems, enjoyment
Retelling a spoken message by summarizing
Listening critically to interpret and evaluate
Developing auditory memory
Taking turns speaking in a group

Comprehension:
Making predictions
Responding to open-ended questions
Making inferences and drawing conclusions
Making connections using illustrations, prior knowledge, and real-life experiences
Identifying sequences of events
Identifying the beginning, middle, and end of a story
Comparing and contrasting
Distinguishing between fiction and nonfiction
Determining cause and effect
Retelling a story

Phonological Awareness:
Repeating auditory sequences of letters, words and patterns
Identifying digraphs -ch, sh, th, and wh
Blending words phoneme by phoneme
Manipulating final sounds in a word
Deleting initial sounds in a word
Identifying medial short and long vowel sounds