Reading Curriculum:

Listed below are some of the main topics of the Kindergarten Reading and Language Arts curriculum. With children's development of language progressing so quickly at this young age, much of our instructional time is devoted to Reading and Language Arts lessons.  Each day, students will work through a progression of language skills flowing from Phonics to Sight Words and Reading.  Comprehension skills will be woven throughout the teacher's read-aloud books, the students' read-aloud decodable texts, and all curriculum areas.  Writing lessons will include work from reading books, seasonal activities, and structured grammar lessons.  

• Phonics - consonants, short vowels, digraphs (such as th and sh), long vowels, and diphthongs

• Sight Words - Many words are from the Dolch list and are taught using our decodable texts.  Words will be sent home as each unit of study begins.

• Reading Comprehension - themes, character analysis, comparison to Jesus, main ideas, details, inferencing, predicting, drawing conclusions, etc.

• Writing - sentence structure, nouns, verbs, adjectives, pronouns, and a friendly letter

Kindergarten Sight Words: 

Unit 1  I  can  the  we  see 

Unit 2  a  like 

Unit 3  to  and  go 

Unit 4  you  do 

Unit 5  my  are  with  he 

Unit 6  is  little  she  was  for 

Unit 7  have  of  they  said  want 

Unit 8  here   me  this  what 

Unit 9   help  too  has  play  look  where 

Unit 10  good  who  come  does