Curriculum for mother tongue teaching for language minorities level 1

 

Listening and speaking

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The aims of the studies are to enable students to

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• express their own feelings and opinions

• listen to, understand and talk about the content of oral narratives and other texts

• speak coherently about their experiences related to their school day, their family and their community

• understand and use numbers in practical situations

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Reading and writing

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The aims of the studies are to enable students to

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• recognize numbers and the letters or characters of their mother tongue

• relate letters to sounds and bring the sounds together to form words, or use characters

• read adapted texts fluently and coherently

• understand and fill out simple forms with personal information

• write their own texts, digitally and in functional handwriting

• employ simple strategies for reading comprehension

• find books or digital texts in their mother tongue

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Language learning

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The aims of the studies are to enable students to

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• experiment with speech sounds, words and expressions, rhymes and jingles

• relate personal experiences by means of words, drawings, pictures, music and movement

• talk about how words and pictures work together in a given text

• understand and reflect on the relationship between speech and written language

• describe and assess their own language learning work

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Language and culture

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The aims of the studies are to enable students to

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• talk about the content of fairy tales, songs or poems

• talk about and summarize the gist of puzzles, jokes or other humorous texts

• talk about persons and actions in texts about everyday life, stories or other relevant literature

 

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Curriculum for mother tongue teaching for language minorities level 2

 

Listening and speaking

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The aims of the studies are to enable students to

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• give expression to their own thoughts, feelings and experiences

• listen to others and respond to other people’s stories, descriptions and messages

• converse with and pose questions to their fellow pupils about technical topics and everyday events

• talk about the content of films, computer games, literary texts and plays

• explain and use technical words and concepts

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Reading and writing

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The aims of the studies are to enable students to

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• read different types of text with an understanding of the content

• read and understand simple tables and graphic presentations

• repeat, in their own words, information from school texts

• structure their own texts with headings, an introduction and a conclusion

• write coherent texts, stories and letters

• conduct information searches and create, store and retrieve texts with the aid of digital tools

• use dictionaries and digital aids

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Language learning

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The aims of the studies are to enable students to

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• give examples of linguistic structures from their mother tongue and compare these with Norwegian

• talk about how one expresses oneself in a variety of social contexts

• master some strategies for understanding and learning new words and concepts

• give examples of communication strategies

• use their own experiences to talk about differences and similarities between their mother tongue and Norwegian

• describe and assess their progress in learning their mother tongue

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Language and culture

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The aims of the studies are to enable students to

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• talk about lifestyles, traditions, social conventions and customs, and about the role that language plays in each of these

• explain how the choice of words, the use of the voice and body language may all express different attitudes

• talk about how various conventions for showing politeness are used