Lucy Calkins Reading Workshop

Unit 1: We Are Readers, children will develop concepts of print, phonemic awareness, phonics, and the knowledge necessary to use story language to support their approximations of reading.

Unit 2: Super Powers: Reading with Print Strategies and Sight Word Power, children will use “super power” strategies that help them search for meaning, use picture clues, work on fluency, and communicate meaning.

Unit 3: Bigger Books, Bigger Reading Muscles, children attempt more difficult books with greater independence and use reading strategies to read with more accuracy, fluency, and comprehension.

Unit 4: Becoming Avid Readers, helps youngsters role-play their way into being the readers you want them to become. They pay close attention to characters, setting, and plot while reading fictional stories, become experts in nonfiction topics as they read together in clubs, and play with rhyme and rhythm while reading poetry.

Lucy Calkins Writers' Workshop

The kindergarten units begin helping children approximate writing by drawing and labeling first in all-about books and then in stories.

Unit 1: Launching the Writing Workshop, acknowledges that most children will be labeling their drawings—and the letters in those labels will include squiggles.

Unit 2: Writing for Readers, helps children write true stories—but does so fully aware that the hard part will be writing read-able words.

Unit 3: How-To Books: Writing to Teach Others, students write informational how-to texts on a procedure familiar to them.

Unit 4: Persuasive Writing of All Kinds: Using Words to Make a Change, the fourth and final unit in the kindergarten series, students craft petitions, persuasive letters, and signs that rally people to address problems in the classroom, the school, and the world.

Fountas and Pinnell phonics

The Fountas & Pinnell Phonics, Spelling, and Word Study System is a collection of one hundred brief lessons designed to expand and refine children’s reading and writing powers, and enable you to help children attend to, learn about, and efficiently use information about sounds, letters, and words. During phonics, spelling, and word study lessons, the teacher presents short, explicit instruction to help children learn about and efficiently use sounds, letters, and words.

Eureka Math (aka engage ny)

Module 1: Numbers to 10

Module 2: Two-Dimensional and Three-Dimensional Shapes

Module 3: Comparison of Length, Weight, Capacity, and Numbers to 10

Module 4: Number Pairs, Addition and Subtraction to 10

Module 5: Numbers 10–20 and Counting to 100

Module 6: Analyzing, Comparing, and Composing Shapes

Summary of Year Kindergarten mathematics is about (1) representing, relating, and operating on whole numbers, initially with sets of objects; and (2) describing shapes and space. More learning time in Kindergarten should be devoted to number than to other topics.

Required Fluency: K.OA.5 Add and subtract within 5.