Kindergarten Curriculum
Reading and Writing
Reading
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Recognize all upper and lowercase letters of the alphabet
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Recognize all letter sounds
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Identify consonants and vowels
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Long and short vowel sounds
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Syllables
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Identify and spell CVC words
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Recognize word families
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Digraphs
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Blends
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Rhyming
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Nouns, Adjectives and Verbs
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Word Order
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Retelling
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Character Identification
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Identify Beginning/Middle/End of a story
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Problem and Solution
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Cause and Effect
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Sequence Events
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Identify different types of text
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Compare and Contrast
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Main idea and details
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Making connections: text to text, text to self and text to world
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Making predictions
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Visualize stories without frequent picture clues (chapter book read alouds)
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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
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Handwriting without Tears® program
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Label important aspects of a drawing
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Blends sounds to create words
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Uses a combination of drawing, dictating and writing to compose opinion, narrative and informational pieces
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Add details to strengthen illustrations as needed
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Uses realistic colors to demonstrate characters and setting
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Add details to strengthen illustrations as needed
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Punctuation and grammar (capital letters, periods, question marks, exclamation points
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Uses sight word knowledge to compose sentences
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Writes appropriately on lines
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Differences between fiction and nonfiction writing
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Presents writing with peers
Mathematics
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Counting to 100 by ones and tens
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One to one correspondence
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Number Formation 1-20
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Representing numbers in a variety of ways (tens frame, tally marks, base 10, and pictures)
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Sorting objects by similarities and differences
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One more, one less
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Greater than, Less than
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Addition and subtraction
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Word Problems
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Applications to Real Life Situations
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Collecting and organizing Data
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Measurement (Height, Length, Weight, Big/Small, and Heavy/Light)
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Geometry (2D and 3D shapes)
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Problem Solving
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Mental Math
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Place Value (tens and ones)
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Number Bonds
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Positional Words
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Social Studies
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Citizenship
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Now and Then (with a focus on the Mayflower Voyage, Pilgrims, the First Thanksgiving and Native Americans)
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Holidays Around the World
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Community
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Geography
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Science
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Living and Nonliving things
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Force and Motion
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Matter
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Weather