Grade Level Guidance for Kindergarten Foundational Reading
Taken from Achieve the Core
Key Concepts to Be Developed
Reading
Writing
Language
Foundational Skills
Humanities
1. Students will learn to ask different kinds of questions.
2. Students will understand that choices of clothing are influenced by a variety of factors.
3. Students will recognize that a single piece of clothing may look different in different parts of the world.
- Identify character traits
- Ask and answer questions
- Retell key details
- Identify author and illustrator
Writing
- Compose (dictating/drawing) a narratives
- Speaking/ListeningEngage in group discussion
- Describe text and illustrations
- Narrate an event
- Recall information
- Provide a reaction
- Share ideas
Language
- Print upper and lower case letters
- Uses common nouns and verbs
- Orally form regular plural nouns
- Sort common objects
- Make connections between words
Foundational Skills
- Letter recognition upper and lowercase
- Aa to Zz
- See Project Read scope & sequence
- Print Concepts
- Follow words Left to Right, Top to Bottom and page by page
- Phonological Awareness
- Recognize & produce rhyming
Humanities
1. Students will learn to ask different kinds of questions.
2. Students will understand that choices of clothing are influenced by a variety of factors.
3. Students will recognize that a single piece of clothing may look different in different parts of the world.
Pedagogical Considerations
Learning Progressions
(During and Following Kindergarten)
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In Kindergarten Students:
Reading Identify character Describe character Writing Draw 1 event, with written support Speaking/Listening Follow agreed upon rules for discussion Language Use common nouns and verbs correctly. Make connections between words and their function. Foundational Skills Recognize letters, use print concepts correctly and recognize/produce rhyme. |
In Grade 1 Students:
Reading Identify character Describe character Writing Write 1 event, with one detail Speaking/Listening Build on talk in conversation by asking questions and responding to comments Language Use singular and plurals nouns with matching verbs. Foundational Skills Recognize long and short vowels. |
