Goals

LISTENING/AUDITORY PROCESSING/RECEPTIVE LANGUAGE

Reading Comprehension Skills

• • recalling details

  • sequencing

  • classifying information

  • locating specific information

  • identification of the main idea

  • predicting outcomes

  • making inferences

  • drawing conclusions

  • interpreting figurative language

  • relating cause to effect

  • distinguishing fact from opinion

  • comparing and contrasting

  • analyzing characters

  • recognizing analogous relationships

Literacy Skills

• • recognize plot in terms of conflict

  • recognize methods of characterizations

  • recognize significance of setting

  • interpreting figures of speech

  • determining narrative point of view

  • recognizing flashback and foreshadowing

  • determining the climax

  • stating the theme

  • identifying tone/mood

Study Skills

• • following written and oral directives

  • asks questions or clarify or gain additional information

  • retells, paraphrases, and explains what has been said/read

  • relate the story/event concisely with appropriate sequence and detail

EXPRESSIVE LANGUAGE

Syntax/Grammar

• • recognizes and use complete and coherent sentences

  • recognizes and uses correct word order in sentences

  • uses singular and plural nouns correctly

  • identifies and uses contractions, singular/plural nouns, singular possessive pronouns, past/present/future verbs, pronouns (reflexive/demonstrative)

  • identifies and uses subject and predicate of single-clause sentences

  • uses simple and compound sentences

  • combines short, relates sentence with appositives, participate phrases, adjectives, adverbs, prepositional phrases

  • identifies and uses regular/irregular verbs, adverbs, preposition, coordinating conjunctions

  • identifies and uses subject/verb agreement

  • identifies and uses complete and correct declarative, interrogative, imperative, and explanatory sentences

Semantics

• • passive sentences

  • implied meanings

  • understand and uses 

    • vocabulary

    • antonyms

    • synonyms

    • multiple meaning words

    • homonyms

    • heteronyms

    • idioms and figurative language

    • analogous relationships

  • uses contextual clues with new vocabulary

  • understands and uses vocabulary related to their curriculum

PRAGMATICS

• contributes information and stays on topic

• gives relevant information

• takes conversational turns

• begins/terminates conversation appropriately

• recognizes when intended audiences does/does not understand a message

• uses language to

  • give/receive information

  • influence other people

  • accomplish goals or tasks

  • express feelings/opinions

  • form relationships

• interacts appropriate with peers/adults

EXPRESSIVE SPEECH

• improve speech intelligibility via the production of sounds

• improve vocal quality via pitch, volume, phrasing, and pace modulation 

• reduce vocal abuse

• increase fluency

• decrease dysfluent secondary behaviors

• improve resonance quality (i.e., hypernasal/hyponasal)

• improve overall speech clarity (i.e., volume with overarticulation)