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These are the Virginia Standards of Learning that relate to Barb's storytelling assemblies, workshops, and residencies.

K.1 The student will demonstrate growth in the use of oral language.
•	Listen to a variety of literary forms, including stories and poems.
•	Participate in choral speaking and recite short poems, rhymes, songs, and stories with repeated patterns.
•	Participate in creative dramatics.

K.2 The student will use listening and speaking vocabularies.
•	Use number words.
•	Use words to describe/name people, places, and things.
•	Use words to describe location, size, color, and shape.
•	Use words to describe actions.
•	Ask about words not understood.
•	Follow one-step and two-step directions.

K.4 The student will hear, say, and manipulate phonemes (small units of sound) of spoken language.
•	Identify orally words which rhyme.
•	Sort words orally according to shared beginning, ending, or medial sounds.
•	Blend sounds orally to make words or syllables.
•	Divide syllables orally into sounds.

K.8 The student will demonstrate comprehension of stories.
•	Retell familiar stories using beginning, middle, and end.
•	Talk about characters, setting, and events.
•	Use story language in discussions and retellings.

1.1 The student will continue to demonstrate growth in the use of oral language.
•	Participate in a variety of oral language activities.

1.2 The student will continue to expand and use listening and speaking vocabularies.
•	Increase oral descriptive vocabulary.
•	Give and follow simple two-step oral directions.
•	Use singular and plural nouns.
•	Begin to use compound words in oral communication.

1.4 The student will orally identify and manipulate phonemes (small units of sound) in syllables and multisyllable words.
•	Create rhyming words orally.

2.1 The student will demonstrate an understanding of oral language structure.
•	Create and participate in oral dramatic activities.
•	Use increasingly complex sentence structures in oral communication.

2.2 The student will continue to expand listening and speaking vocabularies.
•	Use words that reflect a growing range of interests and knowledge.
•	Clarify and explain words and ideas orally.
•	Give and follow oral directions with three or four steps.

2.3 The student will use oral communication skills.
•	Use oral language for different purposes: to inform, to persuade, and to entertain.
•	Share stories or information orally with an audience.
•	Participate as a contributor and leader in a groups.

3.1 The student will use effective communication skills in group activities.
•	Listen attentively by making eye contact, facing the speaker, asking questions, and paraphrasing what is said.
•	Ask and respond to questions from teachers and other group members.
•	Explain what has been learned.

3.2 The student will present brief oral reports.
•	Speak clearly.
•	Use appropriate volume and pitch.
•	Speak at an understandable rate.
•	Organize ideas sequentially or around major points of information.
•	Use clear and specific vocabulary to communicate ideas.

3.6 The student will continue to read a variety of fiction and nonfiction selections.
•	Identify the characteristics of folk tales.
•	Compare and contrast the characters described in two folk tales.

3.7 The student will write descriptive paragraphs.
•	Develop a plan for writing.
•	Focus on a central idea.
•	Group related ideas.

4.1 The student will use effective oral communication skills in a variety of settings.
•	Present accurate directions to individuals and small groups.
•	Contribute to group discussions.

4.2 The student will make and listen to oral presentations and reports.
•	Use subject-related information and vocabulary.
•	Listen to and record information.
•	Organize information for clarity.

4.6 The student will read a variety of poetry.
•	Describe the rhyme scheme (approximate, end, and internal).
•	Identify the sensory words used and their effect on the reader.
•	Write rhymed, unrhymed, and patterned poetry.

4.7 The student will write effective narratives and explanations.
•	Focus on one aspect of a topic.
•	Develop a plan for writing.
•	Organize writing to convey a central idea.

5.1 The student will listen, draw conclusions, and share responses in subject-related group learning activities.
•	Participate in and contribute to discussions across content areas.
•	Organize information to present reports of group activities.
•	Summarize information gathered in group activities.

5.2 The student will use effective nonverbal communication skills.
•	Maintain eye contact with listeners.
•	Use gestures to support, accentuate, or dramatize verbal message.
•	Use facial expressions to support or dramatize verbal message.
•	Use posture appropriate for communication setting.

5.3 The student will make planned oral presentations.
•	Determine appropriate content for audience.

5.7 The student will write for a variety of purposes to describe, to inform, to entertain, and to explain.
•	Choose planning strategies for various writing purposes.
•	Organize information.
•	Use vocabulary effectively.

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