• Print many upper and lowercase letters.

• Sort common objects into categories,

• Identify real-life connections between words and their use.

• Begin to understand concepts of print. (Left-to-right directionality, title, author, concept of a word)

• Recognize and produce rhyming words.

• Demonstrate knowledge of one-to-one letter sound correspondence by producing the primary sound for each consonant.

• Actively engage in group reading activities.

• Recognize common types of texts.

• Describe the relationship between illustrations and the story in which they appear.

• Participate in discussions with partners about kindergarten topics and texts.

• Ask and answer questions in order to seek help, get information, or clarify something that is not understood.

• Speak audibly and express thoughts, feelings, and ideas clearly.

• Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to narrate an event.

Big Ideas:

• Know number names and the count sequence.

• Count to tell the number of objects.

• Describe and compare measureable attributes.

• Classify objects and count the number of objects in categories.

• Rote count to 20.

• Count forward to 10 from any given number.

• Write the numbers 1-10.

• Count objects to 10 using one-to-one correspondence.

• Correctly count out objects when given a number 1-20.

• Identify whether the number of objects in one group is greater than, less than or equal to the number of objects in another group.

• Understand and use question words when writing and speaking (who, what, when, where, why how).

• Produce and expand complete sentences in shared language activities.

• Recognize and name end punctuation (period, question mark, exclamation point).

• Identify new meanings for familiar words and apply them accurately. (Ex: Duck is a bird and learning the verb “to duck”.)

• Use the most frequently occurring inflections and affixes (_ed, _s, _ful, _less, re_, un_) as a clue to the meaning of an unknown word.

• Demonstrate understanding of frequently occurring verbs and adjectives by relating them to their opposites.

• Understand that words are separated by spaces in print.

• Recognize and name all upper- and lowercase letters of the alphabet.

• Count, pronounce, blend and segment syllables in spoken words.

• Isolate and blend the initial, medial vowel and final sounds in consonant-vowel-consonant words. (cat, pig, sit, mop…)

• With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text.

• With prompting and support, describe the connection between two individuals, events, ideas, or pieces of information in a text.

• With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about unknown words in a text.

• With prompting and support, identify characters, setting, and major events in a story.

• Speak audibly and express thoughts, feelings and ideas clearly.

• Use a combination of drawing, dictating and writing to compose opinion pieces.

• Use a combination of drawing, dictating and writing to tell about an event.

• With guidance and support, add details to writing.

• With guidance and support, recall information from experiences to answer a question.

Big Ideas:

• Know number names and the count sequence.

• Count to tell the number of objects.

• Compare numbers.

• Identify and describe shapes.

• Analyze, compare, create, and compose shapes.

• Retell familiar stories…Identify the main topic, key details, characters, and setting

• Describe the connection between two individuals, events, ideas or pieces of information in a text.

• Name the author and illustrator of a text and describe the role of each.

• Describe the relationship between the illustrations and the text in which they appear.

• Identify the reasons an author gives to support points in a text.

• Identify the similarities and differences between two texts on the same topic.

• Isolate and pronounce the initial, medial and final sounds in CVC (consonant/vowel/consonant) words. (hat, pig, mop, etc.)

• Associate the long and short sounds with common spellings for the five major vowels.

• Read common high frequency words by sight.

• Read emergent reader texts with purpose and understanding.

• Use a combination of drawing and writing to compose an opinion piece about a book they have heard or read.

• Add details to writing by responding to questions and suggestions from adults and peers.

• Participate in shared research and writing projects.

• Recall information from experiences or gather information from provided sources to answer a question.

• Continue conversations with partners about kindergarten topics and texts.

• Confirm understanding of a text read aloud by asking and answering questions about key details.

• Use correct capitalization and punctuation when writing.

• Write a letter for each corresponding consonant and short vowel sound.

• With guidance and support, explore word relationships and word meanings.

Big Ideas:

• Know number names and the count sequence.

• Count to tell the number of objects.

• Compare numbers.

• Understand addition as putting together and adding to, and understand subtraction as taking apart and taking from.

• Addition and subtraction word problems

• Use the most frequently occurring prepositions when writing or speaking (to, from, in, out, on, off, for, of, by, with)

• Spell simple words phonetically, drawing on knowledge of letter-sound relationships.

• Demonstrate understanding of frequently occurring verbs and adjectives by relating them to their opposites.

• Act out the meanings of similar verbs.

• Count, pronounce, blend, and segment syllables in spoken words.

• Isolate and pronounce the initial, medial vowel sound, and final sounds in CVC (consonant/vowel/consonant) words.

• Associate the long and short sounds with common spellings for the five major vowels.

• Read common high frequency words by sight.

• Distinguish between similarly spelled words by identifying the sounds of the letters that differ.

• Describe the connection between two individuals, events, ideas, or pieces of information in a text.

• Ask and answer questions about unknown words in a text.

• Describe the relationship between illustrations and the text in which they appear.

• Identify the reasons an author gives to support points in a text.

• Identify basic similarities and differences between two texts on the same topic.

• identify characters, setting, and major events in a story.

• Recognize common types of texts (storybooks, poems…)

• Compare and contrast the adventures and experiences of characters in familiar stories.

• Ask and answer questions in order to seek help, get information, or clarify something that is not understood.

• Describe familiar people, places, things, and events and when asked, provide additional details.

• Speak audibly and express thoughts, feelings, and ideas clearly.

• Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to compose informative/explanatory texts in which they name what they are writing about and supply some information about the topic.

• Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to narrate a single event or several loosely linked events, tell about the events in the order in which they occurred, and provide a reaction to what happened.

• Participate in shared research and writing projects.

• Recall information from experiences or gather information from provided sources to answer a question.

Big Ideas:

• Count to tell the number of objects.

• Compare numbers.

• Understand addition as putting together and adding to, and understand subtraction as taking apart and taking from.

• Work with numbers 11-19 to gain foundations for place value.