The North Carolina Department of Instruction Competencies

English/Language Arts

Competency Goal 1: The learner will develop and apply enabling strategies and skills to read and write.

1.04 Apply knowledge of all sources of information (meaning, language, graphophonics) to read a new text silently and independently.

Competency Goal 2: The learner will develop and apply strategies and skills to comprehend text that is read, heard, and viewed.

2.03 Read expository materials for answers to specific questions.

2.04 Pose possible how, why, and what if questions to understand and/or interpret text.

2.06 Recall facts and details from a text.

Competency Goal 3: The learner will make connections through the use of oral language, written language, and media and technology.

3.04 Increase oral and written vocabulary by listening, discussing, and composing texts when responding to literature that is read and heard. (e.g., Read aloud by teacher, literature circles, interest groups, book clubs).

3.05 Locate and discuss examples of an author’s use of:

kinds of sentences (declarative, interrogative, exclamatory).
capitalization (titles, dates and days, names of countries).
punctuation (exclamation marks, commas in dates, and to introduce dialogue and quotations).
use of paragraphs in texts and their effects on the reader

Competency Goal 4: The learner will apply strategies and skills to create oral, written, and visual texts.

4.04 Use oral communication to identify, organize, and analyze information.

4.05 Respond appropriately when participating in group discourse by adapting language and communication behaviors to the situation to accomplish a specific purpose.

Information Skills

Competency Goal 1: The learner will EXPLORE sources and formats for reading, listening, and viewing purposes

1.01 Participate in read-aloud, storytelling, booktalking, silent and voluntary reading experiences.

1.04 Acknowledge ownership of ideas.

1.05 Demonstrate sense of story (e. g., beginning, middle, end, characters, details).

1.06 Demonstrate familiarity with a variety of types of books and resources (print, non-print, electronic).

Science

Competency Goal 1: The learner will build an understanding of animal growth and adaptation

1.03 Evaluate living and nonliving things that affect animal life:

Other animals.
Plants.
Climate.
Water.
Air.
Location.

Computer/Technology Skills

Competency Goal 3: The learner will use a variety of technologies to access, analyze, interpret, synthesize, apply, and communicate information.

3.04 Identify, discuss, and use multimedia to present ideas/concepts/information in a variety of ways as a class.

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