KINDERGARTEN LANGUAGE ARTS CURRICULUM

READING

Word Recognition and Word Study

Phonemic Awareness

Students Will:

Demonstrate phonemic awareness by the wide range of sound manipulation competencies including sound blending and deletion.

Recognize that words are composed of sounds blended together and carry meaning.

Phonics

Students Will:

Understand the alphabetic principle, that sounds in words are expressed by the letters of the alphabet.

Use grapho-phonemic cues to recognize a few one-syllable words when presented out of context. Begin to associate letters ands sounds, particularly initial and final consonants.

Word Recognition

Students Will:

Recognize, automatically, a small number of frequently encountered personally meaningful words in print.

Make progress in automatically recognizing a few of the 220 Dolch basic sight words.

Narrow possibilities in predicting words using initial letters/sounds, patterns of language, and picture clues.

Know the meanings of words encountered frequently in grade-level reading and oral language contexts.

Vocabulary

Students Will:

Determine, in context, the meaning of a few words, familiar and repeated phrases including objects, actions, concepts, content vocabulary, and literary terms, using strategies and resources including picture clues, prediction and other people.

Fluency

Students Will:

Apply automatically the following aspects of fluency:

- Naming of letters, association of letters and their sounds.

- Recognition of a few words both when encountered in context and isolation.

- Demonstrating understanding of concepts of print.

Narrative Text

Students Will:

Become familiar with classic, multi-cultural, and contemporary literature recognized for quality and literary merit that represents our common heritage as well as cultures from around the world.

Identify the basic form and purpose of a variety of narrative genre including stories, nursery rhymes, poetry, and songs.

Discuss setting, characters, and events in narrative text.

Identify how authors/illustrators use literary devices including pictures and illustrations to support the understanding of settings and characters.

Respond to individual and multiple texts by finding evidence, discussing, illustrating, and/or writing to reflect, make meaning, and make connections.

Informational Text

Students Will:

Identify and describe the basic form and purpose of a variety of informational genre including environmental text, concept books, and picture books.

Discuss, with teacher guidance, informational text patterns including descriptive and sequential.

Explain how authors use text features to enhance the understanding of key ideas.

Respond to individual and multiple texts by finding evidence, discussing, illustrating and/or writing to reflect make meaning, and make connections.

Comprehension

Students Will:

Begin to make text-to-self and text-to-text connections and comparisons by activating prior knowledge and connecting personal knowledge and experience to ideas in text through oral and written responses.

Retell up to three events from familiar text using their own words or phrasing.

Begin to make connections across texts by making meaningful predictions based on illustrations or portions of texts.

Apply significant knowledge from grade-level science, social studies, and mathematics texts.

Metacognition

Students Will:

Self-monitor comprehension when reading or listening to familiar text by using simple strategies to increase comprehension including making credible predictions based on illustrations.

Construct and convey meaning using strategies including story grammar to identify the author’s perspective and ordering information.

Critical Standards

Students Will:

Recognize how to assess personal writing and the writing of others with teacher supervision.

Reading Attitude

Students Will:

Become enthusiastic about reading and learning how to read.

Choose books, book activities, word play, and writing on their own during free time in school and at home.

WRITING

Writing Genre

Students Will:

Recognize the different genres in writing.

Choose different genres when writing.

Writing Process

Students Will:

Begin to understand that there is a beginning, middle, and end.

Personal Style

Students Will:

Develop a personal style of writing through journals, class books, and individual story writing.

Grammar and Usage

Students Will:

Use proper grammar when writing with teacher supervision.

Spelling

Students Will:

Identify the letters in sight words.

Be able to use sight words in the writing assignments.

Be able to spell the sight words.

Handwriting

Students Will:

Identify the top, mid, and base line.

Be able to work from top to bottom and from left to right.

Writing Attitude

Students Will:

Be be enthusiastic about writing and learning to write.

SPEAKING

Conventions

Students Will:

Become a confident speaker when sharing reports and projects.

Use a loud and clear voice

LISTENING AND VIEWING

Conventions

Students Will:

Be respectful and attentive when listening to others.