READY Teacher's Guide - Book - Page 264
simple communicative needs
Phonological control
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Sound articulation
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Can correctly reproduce a range of sounds in simple, familiar words and phrases with appropriate stress
Prosodic features
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Can articulate a limited repertoire of words and phrases using appropriate prosodic features (stress, rhythm,
intonation) despite possible interference from other language(s) he/she speaks
Orthographic control
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Can copy familiar words and common, frequent short phrases
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Can spell the lexical entries in Lexical Band I marked as productive with reasonable accuracy
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Shows evolving control of periods, commas, question marks, apostrophes, and capital letters
Sociolinguistic appropriateness
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Can establish basic social contact by using the simplest everyday polite forms of: greetings and farewells;
introductions; saying ‘please,’ ‘thank you,’ etc.
Pragmatic
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Coherence and cohesion
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Propositional precision
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Can link words or groups of words with basic linear connectors
Can communicate basic information about personal details and needs of a concrete type in a simple way
Spoken fluency
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Can produce single words and lexical chunks while pausing to search for ways to articulate less familiar
lexical items and/or to repair communication
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