Kindergarten Curriculum Overview:
What should I expect my child to learn this year...
Reading
What should I expect my child to learn this year...
Reading
- Identify letters and sounds (long and short vowels)
- Segments sounds
- Decodes words to read grade level words accurately and quickly.
- Develop book and print awareness
- Develop phonemic awareness
- Demonstrate sense of story (e.g., beginning, middle, end, characters, details and setting).
- Use preparation strategies to activate prior knowledge and experience before and during the reading of a text.
- Predict possible events
- Understand literary language
- Distinguish fantasy from reality
- Sequence Stories
- Writes several sentences on a topic.
- Uses spacing accurately.
- Uses capital letters and periods consistently and accurately.
- Draws picture that is related to text and is labeled.
- Writes sight words correctly
- Uses phonetic sounds to write words.