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CHALLENGES
EXPLANATION OF THE CURRICULUM FRAMEWORK
THROUGH ENGLISH SUBJECT CURRICULUM
By examining the competencies, standards, benchmarks, and stu-
dent learning outcomes for the English curriculum we can better
understand the curriculum framework explained below.
The English curriculum identifies five competencies:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Reading and Thinking Skills
Writing Skills
Oral Communication Skills
Formal and Lexical Aspects of Language
Appropriate Ethical and Social Development
by Sajjad Ahmed Bari
Head of Academics, CAI Gilgit
Through one competency’s detail we can understand the hier-
archy of the competency. Let’s review competency 1, reading and
thinking skills.
Each competency has a different number of standards, bench-
marks, and SLOs, and we will only look at a sample of them below.
Standard 1: All students will search for, discover and understand a
variety of text types through tasks which require multiple reading
and thinking strategies for comprehension, fluency, and enjoyment.
Standard 2: All students will read and analyze literary text to seek
information, ideas, enjoyment, and to relate their own experiences
to those of common humanity as depicted in literature.
Benchmarks are based on developmental levels of students:
Grades 1-2
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Use reading readiness
strategies; recognize words
and sentences as meaningful
units of expression and
paragraphs as graphical units
of expression.
Grades 3-5
Identify digraphs, silent
letters, and inflections in
words; comprehend words,
sentences and paragraphs
as meaningful units of
expression.
Grades 6-8
Analyze patterns of text,
organization and function
of various devices used in a
paragraph.
Grades 9-10
Analyze patterns of text,
organization and function
of various devices used in
paragraph.
SLOs are based on grade level.
Student Learning Outcomes - Grade 1:
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FALL 2017
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Recite short poems or nursery rhymes with actions.
Listen to a story/fairytale of a few sentences read aloud
by the teacher.
Read aloud the same story/fairytale themselves.
Identify and name characters.
Respond orally with yes or no, to express their like or
dislike of a story/character(s).
Student Learning Outcomes - Grade 2:
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Read and recite short poems or nursery rhymes with
actions.
Listen to a simple story/fairytale read aloud by the
teacher.
Read aloud the same story/fairytale themselves.
Identify and name characters.
Respond orally and in writing, in a sentence, to express
their like or dislike of a story/character(s).
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