Kindergarten

Students will actively listen using agreed-upon discussion rules with prompting.

Students will follow simple one- and two-step oral directions.

Students will work respectfully with peers with prompting.

Students will engage in collaborative discussions about various topics and texts, including their own writing, with peers and adults in small and large groups with prompting.

Students will ask and answer relevant questions with prompting.

Students will orally describe personal interests or tell stories to peers and adults using agreed-upon rules (e.g., taking turns, staying on topic).

Students will count one-syllable and multisyllabic spoken words in a sentence (e.g., I see an elephant.).

Students will distinguish rhyming and non-rhyming pairs and produce a rhyme when given a word.

Students will isolate and pronounce initial and final sounds in spoken words.

Students will count, segment, and blend syllables in spoken words.

Students will blend and segment onset and rime in one-syllable spoken words (e.g., blending: /j/ + og = jog; segmenting: cat = /c/+ at).

Students will blend phonemes to form one-syllable spoken words with 2-4 phonemes (e.g., /f/ /l/ /a/ /t/= flat).

Students will segment phonemes in one-syllable spoken words with 2-4 phonemes (e.g., flat = /f/ /l/ /a/ /t/).

Students will demonstrate their understanding that print carries a message by recognizing labels, signs, and other print in the environment.

Students will demonstrate correct book orientation and identify the title, title page, and the front and back covers of a book.

Students will recognize that print moves from top to bottom, left to right, and front to back.

Students will recognize that written words are made up of letters and are separated by spaces.

Students will recognize the distinguishing features of a sentence (e.g., capitalization of the first word, ending punctuation: period, exclamation point, question mark) with prompting.

Students will correctly form letters to write their first and last name and most uppercase and lowercase letters correctly.

Students will name all uppercase and lowercase letters.

Students will sequence the letters of the alphabet.

Students will produce the sounds for short and long vowels and the most common sound for consonants (e.g., a = /ă/ & /ā/, f = /f/, s = /s/, x = /ks/).

Students will blend letter sounds to decode simple Vowel/Consonant (VC) and Consonant/Vowel/Consonant (CVC) words (e.g., VC words = at, in, up; CVC words = pat, hen, lot).

Students will represent major consonants logically in phonetic spelling (e.g., “lefnt” for elephant or “apl” for apple).

Students will represent all of the sounds in a Consonant/Vowel/Consonant (CVC) word logically in phonetic spelling (e.g., "kat" for cat or "fer" for fur).

Students will read their first and last name in print.

Students will recite familiar texts (e.g., rhymes, songs, poetry, etc.).

Students will begin to develop a sight word vocabulary by decoding and reading regularly- and irregularly-spelled words in isolation and context with increasing automaticity.

Students will identify the topic or main idea with a supporting detail of a text with prompting.

Students will discriminate between fiction and nonfiction text with prompting.

Students will sequence the plot (i.e., beginning, middle, and end) of a story with prompting.

Students will begin to retell facts and details from an informational text.

Students will express themselves through drawing and emergent writing.

Students will sequence the action or details of stories/texts with prompting.

Students will use appropriate spacing between letters and words in emergent writing.

Students will add to their drawing and emergent writing.

Students will share their stories/texts with authentic audiences.

Students will describe the roles of an author and illustrator in various texts.

Students will ask and answer basic questions (e.g., who, what, where, and when) about texts, photographs, or illustrations during shared reading or other text experiences with prompting.

Students will describe characters and setting in a story with prompting.

Students will use drawing, labeling, and writing to tell a story, share information, or express an opinion with prompting.

Students will name and sort familiar objects into categories based on similarities and differences with prompting.

Students will begin to develop an awareness of context clues through read-alouds and other text experiences.

Students will begin to acquire new vocabulary and relate new words to prior knowledge.

Students will use new vocabulary to produce and expand complete sentences in shared language activities.

Students will use language according to purpose in shared writing experiences.

Students will recognize simple sentences with prompting.

Students will recognize parts of speech in sentences with prompting: concrete objects as persons, places, or things (i.e., nouns), words as actions (i.e., verbs), color and size adjectives, the pronoun I, spatial and time relationships such as up, down, before, and after.

Students will begin to compose simple sentences that begin with a capital letter and conclude with an end mark.

Students will capitalize their first name and the pronoun I with prompting.

Students will recognize and begin to use periods, question marks, and exclamation points.

Students will identify relevant pictures, charts, grade-level texts, or people as sources of information on a topic of interest.

Students will identify and use graphic and text features to understand texts: photos, illustrations, titles.

Students will generate topics of interest and decide if a friend, teacher, or expert can answer their questions with prompting.

Students will find information from provided sources during group research with prompting.

Students will share relevant information for various purposes with prompting.

Students will explore ideas and topics in multimodal content.

Students will combine movement with relevant props, images, or illustrations to support their writing and speaking.

Students will listen and respond to read-alouds, participate in shared reading, and interact independently with texts.

Students will express their ideas using a combination of drawing and emergent writing with prompting.