Key Concepts to Be Developed
Reading
Writing
Language
Foundational Skills
Humanities
1. Students will learn to describe their surroundings.
2. Students will describe the basic environmental factors that contribute to construction materials and the types of homes that people live in.
3. Students will use basic vocabulary related to the weather and seasons that contribute to clothing materials and the types of clothing that people wear.
- Ask and answer questions about key details in a text
- Ask and answer questions about unknown words in a text.
- Identify basic similarities in and differences between two texts on the same topic (e.g., in illustrations, descriptions, or procedures).
Writing
- Students will write, draw and tell my opinion.
- Students will write, draw and tell to teach.
- Students will write, draw and say what happened to tell a story.
- Students will tell how I feel about the story they told.
- Students will publish their writing.
- Students will help their class research.
- Students will help their class write.
- Students will remember what they have been taught to answer a question.
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 describe their surroundings.
2. Students will describe the basic environmental factors that contribute to construction materials and the types of homes that people live in.
3. Students will use basic vocabulary related to the weather and seasons that contribute to clothing materials and the types of clothing that people wear.
Pedagogical Considerations
Learning Progressions
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During Kindergarten
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In First Grade
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Reading
Identify basic similarities and differences between two texts on the same topic. Writing With support, students will strengthen their writing and add details with suggestions from the teacher Speaking/Listening Follow agreed upon rules for discussion and continue in multiple exchanges of dialog Language Capitalize the first word of a sentence and the pronoun I Demonstrate an understanding of antonyms Foundational Skills Count, blend, segment onsets and rhymes of single syllable words |
Reading
Identify similarities and differences between two texts on the same topic. Writing Students will focus on a topic, respond to questions, and add suggestions and details to their writing with support Speaking/Listening Follow agreed upon rules for discussion and build on the topic of conversation Language Capitalize names and dates Define words by category and key attributes Foundational Skills Distinguish long and short vowel sounds in spoken single syllable words and will produce single syllable words by blending sounds. |
