Kindergarten Curriculum
English - Language Arts

The language arts curriculum provides systematic, explicit skills instruction that includes phonemic awareness (sounds in spoken words), phonics and decoding skills. Literature and language-rich activities ensure that all students develop the skills to become fluent readers, writers, listeners, speakers, and thinkers. Some examples of specific concepts and skills which students are to master are provided in the topic areas listed below:


READING:

Concepts of Print

  • identify the front cover, back cover, and title page of book
  • follow left to right progression of print
  • know the difference between a letter and a word
  • know that print is spoken word written down
  • name upper-case and lower-case letters of the alphabet

Phonemic Awareness (sounds in spoken words)

  • identify beginning and ending sounds in one syllable spoken words
  • identify words that rhyme and produce rhyming words
  • begin to blend and segment sounds

Phonics

  • produce the sound for consonant letters
  • produce the sound for short vowel letters
  • read simple one-syllable and high frequency words

Comprehension

  • retell a story that is read to him/her
  • recall characters, settings and events in a story read to him/her
  • read text of own composition
  • read simple patterned text

WRITING:

Application

  • write first and last name using initial capital letters
  • write using words and brief sentences
  • dictate a story

Capitalization, Punctuation and Grammar

  • recognize that a sentence ends with a punctuation mark
  • begin to capitalize the beginning of sentences, proper nouns and personal pronoun “I”

Spelling

  • begin to use early phonetic knowledge to spell simple words, e.g., cat, hat

Penmanship

  • write upper-case and lower-case letters with correct form

LISTENING AND SPEAKING:

  • listen attentively and respond to oral communication
  • give and follow one-step and two-step oral directions
  • speak in clear, coherent, complete sentences
  • recite nursery rhymes, poems and short selections
  • relate an experience in a logical sequence