First Grade Mandarin – Second Trimester (2020 – 2021)

Ruomu Wang

First Grade

Second Trimester 2020-2021

Chinese Language Arts

Literacy Skills:
- Identify and analyze authors’ purpose
- Identify the sequence of events
- Identify cause and effect
- Identify the main idea and details

Listening Comprehension Skills:
- Identify the general topic and some basic information in very familiar contexts by recognizing practiced or memorized words, phrases, and simple sentences in texts that are spoken or signed, e.g.:
  - follow directions to fill out a simple graphic organizer
  - understand the names of the planets in a science class
  - recognize some weather expressions in a forecast
  - identify some phrases from a read aloud story
  - recognize some events from a cartoon
  - understand simple instructions given by the teacher
  - understand the difference between a spoken statement and question in people’s conversations
Interpersonal Speaking Skills:
Request and provide information by asking and answering a few simple questions on very familiar and everyday topics, using a mixture of practiced or memorized words, phrases, and simple sentences, e.g.:
- ask who, what, where, or when questions
- respond to a math question reciting a simple mathematical operation
- interact with a partner to complete a “fill-in-the-blank” worksheet
Express basic needs related to familiar and everyday activities, using a mixture of practiced or memorized words, phrases, and questions, e.g.:
- introduce someone else and ask related questions
- ask and answer questions about homework

Express own preferences or feelings and react to those of others, using a mixture of practiced or memorized words, phrases, and questions, e.g.:
- exchange preferences
- add to a conversation

Follow agreed-upon rules for discussions and participate by actively listening, taking turns, and staying on topic
Build on others’ talk in conversations by responding to the comments of others through multiple exchanges
Ask questions to clear up any confusion about topics and texts under discussion

Identify some basic facts from memorized words and phrases when they are supported by gestures or visuals in informational and fiction texts, e.g.:
- identify nutritional categories on food labels
- identify names of classes and their locations on a class schedule
- understand subject-specific terms on a word wall
- recognize whether a correspondence is formal or informal
- identify some phrases describing a character in a story
- recognize a familiar memorized line from a poem
- recognize some events from a story timeline
- recognize a song’s common one-line refrain
Presentational Writing Skills:
Present information about self, interests and activities using a mixture of practiced or memorized words, phrases and simple sentences, e.g.:
- write the physical or personality traits of a character in a book
Present on very familiar and everyday topics using a mixture of practiced or memorized words, phrases and simple sentences, e.g.:
- write some simple information about the classroom or school
- write some simple details about animals, foods, historical figures, or sports based on pictures or photos

Create or utilize existing visual displays to support descriptions to clarify ideas, thoughts, and feelings
Express thoughts, feelings, and ideas clearly, using complete sentences when appropriate to task, situation, and audience

Intercultural Communication Skills:
- Identify some typical products and practices related to familiar everyday life
- Communicate with others from the target culture in familiar everyday situations, using memorized language and showing basic cultural awareness
- Use appropriate rehearsed behaviors and recognize some obviously inappropriate behaviors in familiar everyday situations

Math

Science

Social Studies

Religion

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