English Language Proficiency Standard

Common Core Standard

Teaching Activity

Listening and Speaking:

·         Kindergarten standard

-Using the standard of stage one kindergarten, at this stage most students have the very limited ability or lack the ability of communicating in English especially in the pre-emergent and the emergent levels and as a result, students at this stage communicate using some isolated words as well as some strings of verbs and nouns.

-At the immediate level, the students respond and express themselves using simple sentences. At stage one, the students mostly listen very actively in order for them to gain knowledge and new ideas while in stage two, the students are able to express themselves orally with their own thinking and their own ideas (“English Language Proficiency Standards”, 2018).

The proficiency at kindergarten generally is that the students are able to demonstrate their ability in listening and speaking in the basis of the skills, the knowledge and the abilities practiced in the intermediate levels in order for them to qualify for accessing grade level of academic content.

Looking at the teaching activity in this level, the most recommended include activities withy visuals because many students at this level learn the best when they have visuals to work with, for instance, pictures with their names.

 Show and tell practice is highly encouraged for instance using chats. Also speaking games are recommended at this level(DeVrieset al, 2002).