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The following information and documents provided are resources to help parents best support their child's learning at home in order to meet end of kindergarten academic expectations. Click the icons to access the website or document (May need to click the arrow at top right of some icons) .

Kindergarten Parent Information

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Iowa Core Parent Guides

This Kindergarten Iowa Core Parent Guide contains a brief overview of what will be learned in each subject area, examples of what your child's work at school may look like, and and examples of how you can help your child at home.

Literacy

How can I support my child's reading at home?

Check out the article listed for strategies to support your child at home. In addition, we have listed articles and resources under each domain of literacy to provide parents with strategies to meet your child's specific needs.

Home Reading.pdf

Word Recognition

Phonics

Students will be able to identify upper and lower case letters and their sounds. This knowledge is necessary in order to decode words while reading and encode letters while writing words. The following documents are strategies that can be used at home to reinforce letter name and sound.

Phonemic Awareness

Phonemic Awareness is the ability to notice, think about, and work with the individual sounds in words. Students will be able to recognize and produce rhyming words, blend and segment 2-3 sounds.

Phonological Awareness.pdf

Sight Vocabulary

Students will learn two-three new sight words each week. By the end of the year, students will be expected to master 80 sight words. To show mastery of each sight word, students must be able to read the word in a text and apply in their writing. Students will take home sight word lists throughout the school year for parents to help support their child's learning at home. The following documents contains the current Kindergarten Sight Word list as well as strategies to teach sight and other vocabulary words.

Click on the button with 3 lines to select other sight word review videos on this playlist.

Comprehension

Students will be able to identify characters and setting, use illustrations to tell the story, visualize, and retell the beginning middle and end of the story. Unknown words can impact students' comprehension of the text. The following document includes reading strategies for decoding unknown words and asking comprehension questions.

Comprehension.pdf

Writing

Students will be able to write 2-3 complete sentences by the end of the year. Correct letter formation will help to ease writing and minimize frustration when formulating a complete thought. The documents provided include the handwriting poster, home writing strategies, and unit descriptions.

Math

Students will be able to count to 100 and write numbers to 20. Students will learn simple addition and story problems.

See the Family Resources folder below containing Home Connections for each unit. Home Connections packets provide more information about what students will learn, as well as extra practice opportunities involving concepts that are taught in each unit.

Bridges Math Family Resources

Subitizing Resources

Subitizing builds a solid foundation of number sense that will lead to an increase fact fluency in the future. Subitizing is the ability to 'see' a small amount of objects and know how many there are without counting.

What is subitising? Video

Subitizing Prompts

Subitizing.pdf

Subitizing YouTube Playlist

Parent Resources

Click on the following icons to be redirected to these wonderful parenting websites containing information about academic learning, social and emotional growth.

PBS Kids for Parents

Search activities and articles by topics of interest and age range to best support your child's growth and learning.

Sesame Street in Communities

Search games, videos, activities and articles by topic, age, time, and/or type to best support your child's growth and learning.

Parent Toolkit

A one-stop shop resource developed for parents and contains grade-specific information about your child's academic, physical, social and emotional development.

Science of Parenting

Science of Parenting is a research-based resource for topics under the categories of Everyday Parenting and Parenting in Challenging Moments.

CSEFEL Family Tools

A resource for parents to help better understand and nurture their child's social and emotional development.

Iowa Core Parent Guides

The Iowa Core Parent Guides were developed to provide an overview of what students will learn by the end of each grade level. Guides include a brief overview of what will be learned in each subject area of the Iowa Core, examples of what your child's work at school may look like, and and examples of how you can help your child at home.

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