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Language Arts - Grade 1 Literacy

Nonfiction: Reading
The learner will be able to explore non-fiction.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 1, 1.1.13.b Home
  
Genre: Literary/Explore
The learner will be able to experience various literay and media genres.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 1, 1.1.13 Home
  
Genre: Independent Reading/Explore
The learner will be able to read independently for a variety of purposes (at this level, the student will explore as an emergent reader).
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 1, 1.1.12 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 1, 1.1.14.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 1, 1.1.14.d Home
  
Poetry: Share
The learner will be able to share storybooks, poems, newspapers, and environmental print.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 1, 1.1.14.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 1, 1.1.12.b Home
  
Rhythm/Rhyme: Rhymes/Recognize
The learner will be able to recognize rhymes in children's literature.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 1, 1.1.13.f Home
  
Reader Intention Enjoyment
The learner will be able to read for enjoyment.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 1, 1.1.12.d 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 1, 1.1.10 Home
  
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Language Expressions

Noun: Use
The learner will be able to use nouns appropriately (e.g., singular and plural, possessive).
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 1, 1.3.01.a Home
  
Pronoun: Use
The learner will be able to use pronouns appropriately (e.g., subject and object agreement).
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 1, 1.3.01.c Home
  
Sentence Structure: Words/ Recognize
The learner will be able to recognize that groups of words make sentences.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 1, 1.1.03.f Home
  
Sentence Structure: Identify Complete
The learner will be able to identify complete sentences.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 1, 1.3.04.b 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 1, 1.3.04 Home
  
Sentence Content: Variety/Type
The learner will be able to write a variety of sentence types.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 1, 1.2.03.h Home
  
Sentence Structure: Coherent
The learner will be able to write in complete, coherent sentences.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 1, 1.2.03.b Home
  
Verb: Use
The learner will be able to use verbs (action words) appropriately (e.g., tense and agreement with simple subject).
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 1, 1.3.01.b Home
  
Fragment: Identify
The learner will be able to identify and correct incomplete sentences.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 1, 1.3.04.d Home
  
Sentence Combining: Compound Sentence
The learner will be able to combine two simple sentences into a compound sentence by using the conjunction "and".
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 1, 1.3.04.e 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 1, 1.3.01 Home
  
Adjective: Use
The learner will be able to use adjectives appropriately (e.g., vivid description words).
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 1, 1.3.01.d Home
  
Declarative: Speaker/Intonation
The learner will be able to identify statements and questions by noting ending punctuation when writing and intonation when speaking.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 1, 1.3.04.f Home
  
Edit: Complete/Sentence
The learner will be able to apply elements of language (e.g., end marks, capitalization) and use complete sentences when writing and editing.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 1, 1.2.04.a Home
  
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Language Mechanics

Mechanics: Punctuation/Apply
The learner will be able to understand punctuation (e.g., period, question mark).
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 1, 1.1.03.g Home
  
Endmark: Sentence/Period/Use
The learner will be able to use correct punctuation at the end of simple declarative sentences and questions.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 1, 1.3.02.b Home
  
Capitalization: Own Name
The learner will be able to capitalize the first word of a sentence, first and last names, pronoun "I" and proper nouns.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 1, 1.3.02.a Home
  
Contraction: Identify
The learner will be able to identify and use contractions.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 1, 1.3.02.c Home
  
Abbreviate: Common/Identify
The learner will be able to identify simple abbreviations.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 1, 1.1.07.h 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 1, 1.3.02 Home
  
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Response: Variety/Media
The learner will be able to listen and respond to a wide variety of media (e.g., books audio tapes, videos).
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 1, 1.1.02.c Home
  
Behaviors: Listening Skills/ Expand
The learner will be able to develop listening skills.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 1, 1.1.02 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 1, 1.1.02.a 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 1, 1.1.01.c Home
  
Directions: Three Step
The learner will be able to understand and follow simple, three-step directions given orally.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 1, 1.1.02.e Home
  
Processes: Developmentally Appropriate
The learner will be able to use appropriate listening skills (e.g., do not interrupt, face speaker, ask questions).
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 1, 1.1.02.b Home
  
Discussion: Group/Participate
The learner will be able to participate in group discussions.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 1, 1.1.01.d Home
  
Predicting: Story
The learner will be able to predicting and adjusting outcomes during read-alouds.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 1, 1.1.09.a.5 Home
  
Purposes: Identify
The learner will be able to develop a purpose for listening/reading.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 1, 1.1.08.a Home
  
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Purposes: Variety
The learner will be able to read and view various literary (e.g., picture books, storybooks, fariy tales, poetry, lyrics to songs) and media (e.g., illustrations, the arts, films, videos) genres.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 1, 1.1.13.a Home
  
Nonprint: Main Character/Identify
The learner will be able to identify the main character(s) in print and non-print text.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 1, 1.1.13.d Home
  
Nonprint: Characters/Plot/Setting
The learner will be able to identify characters, events, and settings in print and non-print text.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 1, 1.1.13.c Home
  
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Reading Operations

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 1, 1.1.11 Home
  
Strategies: Improve Fluency
The learner will be able to read to build fluency.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 1, 1.1.12.f Home
  
Emergent Reading: Increasing Fluency
The learner will be able to read with increasing fluency and confidence from a variety of texts through paired readings, shared reading, choral reading, teacher-led reading, and reading from tapes.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 1, 1.1.06.e Home
  
Reading Behaviors: Independent/Daily
The learner will be able to read independently daily.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 1, 1.1.06.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 1, 1.1.14 Home
  
Read Aloud: Text/Fluency/Confidence
The learner will be able to begin to read orally with accuracy and confidence using appropriate pacing, intonation, and expression.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 1, 1.1.06a Home
  
Construct Meaning: Strategies
The learner will be able to use active comprehension strategies to derive meaning while reading and check for understanding after reading.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 1, 1.1.09 Home
  
Prereading: Strategies/Develop
The learner will be able to develop and use prereading strategies.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 1, 1.1.08 Home
  
Response: Creative
The learner will be able to participate in creative responses to text (e.g., choral reading, discussion and drama).
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 1, 1.1.01.e Home
  
Prior Knowledge: Activities/Background
The learner will be able to take part in activities to build background knowledge to derive meaning from text.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 1, 1.1.08.b Home
  
Emergent Reading: Left/Right
The learner will be able to demonstrate directionality by reading left to right and top to bottom.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 1, 1.1.03.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 1,1.1.07.c 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 1, 1.1.14.e Home
  
Reading Behaviors: Personal Enjoyment
The learner will be able to choose to read as a leisure activity.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 1, 1.1.14.f Home
  
Main Idea: Picture/Identify
The learner will be able to recognizing main idea in pictures, picture books and texts.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 1, 1.1.09.b.4 Home
  
Draw Conclusion: Accuracy
The learner will be able to drawing conclusions based on what has been read.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 1, 1.1.09.b.3 Home
  
Predictions: Reading Materials/Make
The learner will be able to make predictions about text.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 1, 1.1.08.c Home
  
Summary: Sentences/Illustrations
The learner will be able to summarize a story using simple sentences and illustrations.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 1, 1.2.10.b Home
  
Strategies: Features/Use/Find
The learner will be able to use text features to find information in text (e.g., maps, charts illustrations and table of contents).
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 1, 1.1.11.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 1, 1.1.12.a Home
  
Plot: Problem/Identify/Story
The learner will be able to retell a story in correct sequence (e.g., using books, videos, films).
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 1, 1.1.13.g Home
  
Emergent Reading: Word Families/Use
The learner will be able to manipulate word families, word walls, and word sorts.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 1, 1.1.07.d Home
  
Reality/Fantasy: Literature/Distinguish
The learner will be able to determine whether a selection is real or fantasy.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 1, 1.1.13.e Home
  
Sequence: Three-Step/Remember
The learner will be able to recalling three to four step sequence of events.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 1, 1.1.09.b.1 Home
  
Questions: Aid Understanding
The learner will be able to asking questions about text.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 1, 1.1.09.a.1 Home
  
Reading Behaviors: Correct Problems
The learner will be able to recognizing errors in reading as they occur and self-correct.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 1, 1.1.09.a.2 Home
  
Reading Aloud: Familiar Text/Fluency
The learner will be able to recite familiar texts to develop fluency, expression, accuracy and confidence.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 1, 1.1.06.g Home
  
Reading Aloud: Oral Readings/Guided
The learner will be able to take part in guided oral readings.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 1, 1.1.06.c Home
  
Reading Aloud: Punctuation/Apply
The learner will be able to apply the use of punctuation to aid in reading aloud.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 1, 1.1.06.b Home
  
Construct Meaning: Graphic Organizers
The learner will be able to use graphic organizers to aid in understanding material from informational text (e.g., charts, graphs, web).
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 1, 1.1.10.d Home
  
Prereading: Illustrations/View
The learner will be able to view illustrations to preview text.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 1, 1.1.08.d Home
  
Response: Discussion/Relate/Personal
The learner will be able to discuss reading materials and relate to personal experiences.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 1, 1.1.09.a.3 Home
  
Response: Illustrations/Signs/Symbols
The learner will be able to create and/or apply illustrations, signs, or rebus symbols when responding to literature.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 1, 1.2.10.d Home
  
Emergent Reading: Track/Left/Right
The learner will be able to track print when being read to aloud.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 1, 1.1.03.c Home
  
Emergent Reading: Understanding/Develop
The learner will be able to understand that printed materials provide information.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 1, 1.1.03.a Home
  
Emergent Reading: Print Concepts
The learner will be able to demonstrate comprehension of print concepts.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 1, 1.1.03 Home
  
Conflict: Solution/Discuss
The learner will be able to determine the problem in a story and discover its solution through classroom discussion.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 1, 1.1.13.h Home
  
Decode: Strategies/Use
The learner will be able to develop and use decoding strategies.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 1, 1.1.05 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 1, 1.1.12.c Home
  
Retell: Sequentially
The learner will be able to retelling stories in their own words using sequencing words (i.e. first, next, last).
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 1, 1.1.09.b.2 Home
  
Graphic Organizer: Text
The learner will be able to creating graphic organizers (e.g., charts, lists).
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 1, 1.1.09.a.4 Home
  
Emergent Reading: Apply/Decoding
The learner will be able to use decoding strategies, such as sounding out words, comparing similar words, breaking words into smaller words, and looking for word parts (e.g., compound words, word families, blends, and digraphs).
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 1, 1.1.05.c Home
  
Develop reading
The learner will be able to read to develop fluency, expression, accuracy and confidence.
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TN: Curriculum Strandards, 2001, Grade 1, 1.1.06 Home
  
Comprehension strategies
The learner will be able to derive meaning while reading.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 1, 1.1.09.a Home
  
Reading Strategies
The learner will be able to check for understanding after reading.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 1, 1.1.09.b Home
  
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Drama: Knowledge/Information/Retell
The learner will be able to dramatize or retell what had been learned, heard or