READY Teacher's Guide - Book - Page 355
APPENDIX V – Global Can-Do Statements: Course Book
Global Can-do Descriptors
Can understand concrete information (e.g. places and times) on familiar
topics encountered in everyday life, delivered in slow and carefully
articulated speech when necessary
Unit 1
31 (3), 37 (3) ,45 (8), 48
(2), 55 (3)
Spoken Reception
Can understand basic sentences describing familiar everyday items,
especially when supported by pictures
67 (2)
Written
Reception
Can understand stories and short texts on a range of familiar topics (e.g.
sports, music, or travel) written in level-appropriate language
(vocabulary and grammar), and supported by illustrations and pictures,
rereading as required
34 (10), 40 (10), 46 (11),
52 (10), 58 (11), 60 (Let’s
Read)
Spoken
Production
Can provide factual personal information about him/herself using
appropriate level language (vocabulary and grammar)
31 (4), 41 (14), 43 (4)
Written
Production
Can write simple isolated phrases and sentences using level-appropriate
language (vocabulary and grammar) and spelling that approximates
accurate conventions based on a developmental continuum.
50(6), 67 (3)
Spoken
Interaction
Can engage in limited interactions (restricted in the number of turntakings and scope) but communication may be dependent on
repetition at a slower rate of speech and rephrasing
43 (4), 43 (5), 47 (15), 51
(8), 53 (14), 58 (10)
Expressing a personal response to creative texts
58 (10), 59 (14)
Facilitating collaborative interaction with peers and collaborating to
construct meaning.
31 (4), 36 (2), 40 (9), 41
(14), 43 (5), 46 (10), 47
(15), 51 (8), 52 (9), 53
(14), 58 (10)
Linguistics (Lexical Band I and Grammar Band I)
32-33, 38-39, 44-45, 5051, 56-57
Phonological Control includes sound articulation and prosodic
features.
44 (6), 55 (5)
Orthographic control including copying familiar words and common,
frequent short phrases (e.g., simple signs, instructions, names of
everyday objects and shops), spelling the lexical entries in Lexical Band I
marked as productive with reasonable accuracy and showing evolving
control of periods, commas, question marks, apostrophes and capital
letters
30 (2), 32 (6), 37 (4), 38
(5), 39 (7), 40 (11), 41
(14), 42 (2), 44 (7), 49 (3)
Mediation
Activities
Communicative
Language
Competence
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