LANGUAGE STANDARDS Parent Notes Standard What does this What can I do at home? Resources Code standard mean? Language Students must be able to use Provide your child with Skills Grade standard English grammar blocks, magnets, flash PK Standard when speaking and writing. cards, etc with the letters Help your child to choose individual 1 Specifically, they should be (both upper- and letters to learn about. Listen and (L.PK.1) able to… lowercase printed on sing along to the songs to practice them). Have your child identifying the letters. trace them with his/her begin to write some finger. letters – both upper- Supply him/her with and lowercase (e.g. pens/pencils to practice Watch this video with your child to the letters in their printing letters. Give introduce him/her to many common own names). him/her examples to copy. nouns and verbs. use common nouns In context, provide and verbs when examples and introduce speaking. your child to new words. add /s/ or /es/ to Ask him/her… Watch this video with your child to form regular plural “Wow! That car is moving further familiarize him/her with nouns when really fast! Do you what regular plural nouns. Then practice speaking. that’s called?” thinking of additional examples of understand and use In context, provide plural nouns. common question words examples and introduce (e.g., who, what, where, your child to plural words. when, why, how). (e.g. “We only have one car, use common but if we had two, we prepositions (e.g. to, would have cars. What if from, in, out, on, off, we had more than one Watch this video with your child to for, of, by, with, under, house? What would we review the basic common question
LANGUAGE STANDARDS Parent Notes Standard Code What does this standard mean? What can I do at home? Resources Language Skills Grade PK Standard 1 (L.PK.1) Students must be able to use standard English grammar when speaking and writing. Specifically, they should be able to… begin to write some letters – both upper- and lowercase (e.g. the letters in their own names). use common nouns and verbs when speaking. add /s/ or /es/ to form regular plural nouns when speaking. understand and use common question words (e.g., who, what, where, when, why, how). use common prepositions (e.g. to, from, in, out, on, off, for, of, by, with, under, Provide your child with blocks, magnets, flash cards, etc with the letters (both upper- and lowercase printed on them). Have your child trace them with his/her finger. Supply him/her with pens/pencils to practice printing letters. Give him/her examples to copy. In context, provide examples and introduce your child to new words. Ask him/her… “Wow! That car is moving really fast! Do you what that’s called?” In context, provide examples and introduce your child to plural words. (e.g. “We only have one car, but if we had two, we would have cars. What if we had more than one house? What would we Help your child to choose individual letters to learn about. Listen and sing along to the songs to practice identifying the letters. Watch this video with your child to introduce him/her to many common nouns and verbs. Watch this video with your child to further familiarize him/her with regular plural nouns. Then practice thinking of additional examples of plural nouns. Watch this video with your child to review the basic common question
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