Junior Kindergarten: Oral Communication
- Use gestures, actions, body language and/or words to communicate needs and to express ideas
- Listen and respond to picture books, showing pleasure, and demonstrating their understanding through gestures, expression and/or words
- Name classmates, teachers, and familiar classroom and playground objects
- Interact effectively with peers and adults in familiar social settings
- Tell their own stories using words, gestures, and objects/artifacts
- Repeat/echo single words
- Use single words and two-word phrases in context
- Join in with poems, rhymes, songs, and repeated phrases in shared books
- Understand simple questions and respond with action or words
- Follow classroom directions and routines, using context cues
- Realize that people speak different languages
- Expresses needs and explains ideas
