Use imagination to communicate when appropriate.

Use the appropriate strategies to communicate meaning:

• find ideas to explore (before)
• tell a story about self (during)
• add detail (after).

Use language cues and conventions to construct and communicate meaning:

• use and apply the different functions of language (pragmatic)
• tell or dramatize a story using own words and appropriate gestures (pragmatic)
• use different sentence patterns (syntactic)
• manipulate sounds and words in shared, guided, and independent activities (lexical/semantic)
• explore sounds and rhymes (graphophonic)
• use various tools and techniques to represent ideas (other cues and conventions).

Combine words and images to make meaning.

Create a story about self and family.

Incorporate story elements in representations.

Demonstrate knowledge of upper and lower case letters; show awareness of the first place position of a capital letter in words; notice the use of punctuation marks and try them out in own communication.

Express ideas and feelings using wood, blocks, clay, and natural materials.

Interpret characters through drawing, talking, play, and drama.

Represent stories through pictures, dictation, physical movement, and play and describe/explain their symbols, pictures, and dramatizations.