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WCSCurriculum
Language Arts - Grade 2 Literacy

Genre: Media/Explore
The learner will be able to experience various literary and media genres.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 2, 2.1.13 Home
  
Genre: Independent Reading/Explore
The learner will be able to read independently for a variety of purposes.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 2, 2.1.12 Home
  
Genre: Read Aloud/Variety/Explore
The learner will be able to explore a wide variety of literature through read alouds, tapes, and independent reading.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 2, 2.1.14.c Home
  
Author: Identify
The learner will be able to identify favorite stories, informational text, authors and illustrators.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 2, 2.1.14.d Home
  
Fable
The learner will be able to explore folktales and fables.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 2, 2.1.13.c Home
  
Poetry: Share
The learner will be able to share storybooks, poems, environmental print, and own writing.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 2, 2.1.14.b Home
  
Informational: Variety/Purpose/Read
The learner will be able to read to gain information.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 2, 2.1.12.b Home
  
Genre: Use
The learner will be able to identify types of stories (e.g. folktales, fables, fairy tales).
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 2, 2.1.13.f Home
  
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Information Processing

Information/Ideas: Purpose/Learning
The learner will be able to introduce information skills to facilitate learning.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 2, 2.1.10 Home
  
Check for understanding
The learner will be able to check for undestanding after reading.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 2, 2.1.09b Home
  
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Language Expressions

Noun: Use
The learner will be able to use nouns appropriately (e.g. singular and plural, common and proper, possessives).
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 2, 2.3.01.a Home
  
Pronoun: Use
The learner will be able to use pronouns appropriately (e.g., pronoun case, subject and object agreement).
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 2, 2.3.01.c Home
  
Sentence Structure: Apply/Communicate
The learner will be able to demonstrate knowledge of correct sentence structure.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 2, 2.3.04 Home
  
Sentence Structure: Coherent
The learner will be able to write in complete, coherent sentences.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 2, 2.2.03.b Home
  
Sentence Structure: Differentiate
The learner will be able to distinguish between complete and incomplete sentences.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 2, 2.3.04.b Home
  
Verb: Use
The learner will be able to use verbs appropriately (e.g., past and present tense, agreement, action and linking, irregular).
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 2, 2.3.01.b Home
  
Sentence Combining: Simple/Compound
The learner will be able to combine simple sentences to create compound sentences.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 2, 2.3.04.d Home
  
Conventions: Standard English
The learner will be able to demonstrate knowledge of standard English usage.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 2, 2.3.01 Home
  
Adjective: Use
The learner will be able to use adjectives appropriately (e.g. descriptive, comparative, superlative).
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 2, 2.3.01.d Home
  
Declarative: Identify
The learner will be able to identify and use statements, questions, and exclamatory sentences in writing and speaking.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 2, 2.3.04.c Home
  
Edit: Complete/Sentence
The learner will be able to edit for complete sentences.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 2, 2.2.04.b Home
  
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Language Mechanics

Endmark: Exclamation Point/Identify/Use
The learner will be able to use correct punctuation at the end of declarative sentences, exclamatory sentences and questions.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 2, 2.3.02.b Home
  
Mechanics: Punctuation/Apply
The learner will be able to understand punctuation (e.g. period, question mark, exclamation mark).
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 2, 2.1.03.d Home
  
Capitalization: Own Name
The learner will be able to capitalize the first word of a sentence, names, pronoun "I," and proper nouns.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 2, 2.3.02.a Home
  
Comma: Series/Items/Use
The learner will be able to use commas correctly in a series of one- word items (e.g. apples, oranges, and pears).
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 2, 2.3.02.c Home
  
Contraction: Apostrophes
The learner will be able to form contractions using apostrophes.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 2, 2.3.02.d Home
  
Abbreviate: Common/Identify
The learner will be able to recognize common abbreviations and contractions.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 2, 2.1.07.b Home
  
Mechanics: Standard English
The learner will be able to demonstrate knowledge of standard English mechanics.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 2, 2.3.02 Home
  
Concepts of print
The learner will be able to understand punctuation (e.g., period, question mark, exclamation mark).
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 2, 2.1.03d Home
  
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Response: Variety/Media
The learner will be able to listen and respond to a variety of media (e.g. books, audio tapes, videos).
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 2, 2.1.02.c Home
  
Auditory Discrimination: Awareness/Sound
The learner will be able to develop awareness of sounds of language through repeated exposure to a variety of auditory experiences (e.g. poetry, books on tape, music lyrics, sound effects, and read alouds).
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 2, 2.1.04.a Home
  
Behaviors: Variety/Attentive
The learner will be able to listen attentively to speaker for specific information.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 2, 2.1.02.a Home
  
Behaviors: Listening Skills/ Expand
The learner will be able to develop listening skills.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 2, 2.1.02 Home
  
Directions: Understand/Oral
The learner will be able to understand, follow, and give oral directions.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 2, 2.1.01.c Home
  
Directions: Follow/Oral
The learner will be able to follow directions given orally.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 2, 2.1.02.e Home
  
Processes: Developmentally Appropriate
The learner will be able to use appropriate listening skills (e.g. does not interrupt, faces speaker, asks questions).
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 2, 2.1.02.b Home
  
Discussion: Group/Participate
The learner will be able to participate in group discussions.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 2, 2.1.01.d Home
  
Predicting: Story
The learner will be able to predict and adjust outcomes during reading.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 2, 2.1.09.a.3 Home
  
Listening skills
The learner will be able to follow oral directions.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 2, 2.1.02e Home
  
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Reading Operations

Detail: Identify Events
The learner will be able to identify with events occurring within literary selections.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 2, 2.1.13.d Home
  
Strategies: Reading to Learn/Curriculum
The learner will be able to develop skills to facilitate reading to learn in a variety of content areas.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 2, 2.1.11 Home
  
Strategies: Improve Fluency
The learner will be able to read to build fluency.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 2, 2.1.12.f Home
  
Purposes: Establishing
The learner will be able to identify a purpose for reading.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 2, 2.1.08.a Home
  
Reading Behaviors: Independent/Daily
The learner will be able to read independently daily.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 2, 2.1.06.f Home
  
Reading Behaviors: Literary/Relate
The learner will be able to relate literary experiences to others (e.g. book reports, sharing favorite stories).
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 2, 2.1.14.f Home
  
Reading Behaviors: Motivation/Create
The learner will be able to develop and maintain a motivation to read.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 2, 2.1.14 Home
  
Read Aloud: Text/Fluency/Confidence
The learner will be able to read text aloud with fluency, expression, accuracy, and confidence.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 2, 2.1.06 Home
  
Construct Meaning: Strategies
The learner will be able to derive meaning while reading.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 2, 2.1.09.a Home
  
Post-Reading: Strategies
The learner will be able to use active comprehension straegies to derive meaning while reading and check for understanding after reading.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 2, 2.1.09 Home
  
Prereading: Strategies/Develop
The learner will be able to develop and use pre-reading strategies.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 2, 2.1.08 Home
  
Response: Creative
The learner will be able to partcipate in creative responses to text (e.g., choral reading, discussion, and dramatization).
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 2, 2.1.01.e Home
  
Prior Knowledge: Activities/Background
The learner will be able to participate in activities to build background knowledge to make meaning from text.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 2, 2.1.08.b Home
  
Sharing: Take Part/Reading
The learner will be able to participate in shared reading.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 2, 2.1.07.c Home
  
Reading Behaviors: Self-Selected/Read
The learner will be able to experience daily opportunities to read.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 2, 2.1.14.g Home
  
Reading Behaviors: Literacy Activities
The learner will be able to engage in a variety of literacy activities voluntarily (e.g. self-select books and stories).
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 2, 2.1.14.e Home
  
Reading Behaviors: Personal Enjoyment
The learner will be able to read for enjoyment.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 2, 2.1.12.d Home
  
Relate: Events/Experiences
The learner will be able to connect life experiences to information and events in texts.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 2, 2.1.08.f Home
  
Cause/Effect: Identify
The learner will be able to recognize cause and effect.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 2, 2.1.09.b.4 Home
  
Main Idea: Picture/Identify
The learner will be able to recognize the main idea in picture books and texts.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 2, 2.1.09.b.5 Home
  
Draw Conclusion: Support
The learner will be able to draw conclusions based on evidence gained while reading.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 2, 2.1.09.b.2 Home
  
Predictions: Reading Materials/Make
The learner will be able to make predictions about texts.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 2, 2.1.08.c Home
  
Character: Interact/Identify
The learner will be able to recognize how the main charcter and other characters interact with each other.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 2, 2.1.13.e Home
  
Summary: Clarify Ideas
The learner will be able to relate story events in order to clarify and organize ideas.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 2, 2.1.09.b.3 Home
  
Summary: Content/Classroom/Learned
The learner will be able to summarize lesson content.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 2, 2.1.01.h Home
  
Strategies: Features/Use/Find
The learner will be able to use text features to locate information (e.g., charts, maps and illustrations).
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 2, 2.1.11.b Home
  
Source: Variety/Purpose/Read
The learner will be able to read for literary experience.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 2, 2.1.12.a Home
  
Plot: Recognize/Problem/Solution
The learner will be able to determine the problem in a story and discover its solution.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 2, 2.1.13.i Home
  
Emergent Reading: Comprehend/Paragraph
The learner will be able to recognize that groups of sentences make a paragraph and paragraphs make a story.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 2, 2.1.03.b Home
  
Emergent Reading: Word Families/Use
The learner will be able to manipulate word families, word wall and word sorts.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 2, 2.1.07.d Home
  
Emergent Reading: Stories
The learner will be able to compare and contrast different stories.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 2, 2.1.13.h Home
  
Reality/Fantasy: Literature/Distinguish
The learner will be able to determine whether the events in the reading selection are real or fantasy.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 2, 2.1.13.g Home
  
Sequence: Main Events/Ideas/Retell
The learner will be able to recall the sequence of events in a story.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 2, 2.1.09.b.1 Home
  
Reading Behaviors: Correct Problems
The learner will be able to employ self-correction strategies (e.g. rereading, asking for help).
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 2, 2.1.09.a.1 Home
  
Reading Aloud: Oral Readings/Guided
The learner will be able to participate in guided, oral readings.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 2, 2.1.06.c Home
  
Reading Aloud: Punctuation/Apply
The learner will be able to reflect punctuation within written text while reading orally.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 2, 2.1.06.b Home
  
Construct Meaning: Graphic Organizers
The learner will be able to use graphic organizers to aid in understanding material from informational texts.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 2, 2.1.10.d Home
  
Prereading: Illustrations/View
The learner will be able to use illustrations to preview text.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 2, 2.1.08.d Home
  
Response: Discussion/Relate/Personal
The learner will be able to participate in discussion about text and relating selection to personal experience.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 2, 2.1.09.a.2 Home
  
Emergent Reading: Print Concepts
The learner will be able to demonstrate knowledge of concepts in print.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 2, 2.1.03 Home
  
Graphic Organizers: Create
The learner will be able to construct graphic organizers to establish understanding.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 2, 2.2.01.c Home
  
Decode: Strategies/Use
The learner will be able to develop and use decoding strategies.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 2, 2.1.05 Home
  
Task: Read/Perform Task
The learner will be able to read to perform a task.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 2, 2.1.12.c Home
  
Graphic Organizer: Text
The learner will be able to create graphic organizers (e.g. KWL, webs, lists, story maps, charts).
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 2, 2.1.08.e Home
  
Read to develop
The learner will be able to read orally to develop fluency, expression, accuracy, and confidence.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 2, 2.1.06a Home
  
Read a variety
The learner will be able to read a variety of texts with fluency, expression, accuracy and confidence.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 2, 2.1.06e Home
  
Motivation to read
The learner will be able to choose to read as a leisure activity.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 2, 2.1.14h Home
  
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Strategies: Oral Language/Extend
The learner will be able to show evidence of expanding oral language through vocabulary growth.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 2, 2.1.01.a Home
  
Practices: Oral Language
The learner will be able to develop oral language.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 2, 2.1.01 Home
  
Language Structure: