Kindergarten Curriculum

Reading and Writing

Reading

• Recognize all upper and lowercase letters of the alphabet

• Recognize all letter sounds

• Identify consonants and vowels

• Long and short vowel sounds

• Syllables

• Identify and spell CVC words

• Recognize word families

• Digraphs

• Blends

• Rhyming

• Nouns, Adjectives and Verbs

• Word Order

• Retelling

• Character Identification

• Identify Beginning/Middle/End of a story

• Problem and Solution

• Cause and Effect

• Sequence Events

• Identify different types of text

• Compare and Contrast

• Main idea and details

• Making connections: text to text, text to self and text to world

• Making predictions

• Visualize stories without frequent picture clues (chapter book read alouds)

• Uses strategies to identify unfamiliar words

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Writing: Kindergarten uses Handwriting without Tears® to focus on the multi-sensory aspects of proper letter formation and pincer grip, creating a strong foundation for the ongoing development of writing skills

• Handwriting without Tears® program

• Label important aspects of a drawing

• Blends sounds to create words

• Uses a combination of drawing, dictating and writing to compose opinion, narrative and informational pieces

• Add details to strengthen illustrations as needed

• Uses realistic colors to demonstrate characters and setting

• Add details to strengthen illustrations as needed

• Punctuation and grammar (capital letters, periods, question marks, exclamation points

• Uses sight word knowledge to compose sentences

• Writes appropriately on lines

• Differences between fiction and nonfiction writing

• Presents writing with peers