Literature and Informational Texts

CacheCountySchool District

Kindergarten Curriculum Guide

LANGUAGE ARTS

Literature and Informational Texts

□ Key ideas & details, retell stories

□ Identify, explore & compare characters, setting & events

□ Know types of texts & book parts

□ Role of author, illustrator and illustrations

□ Actively engage in reading groups

Print Concepts

□ Tracking, spacing, and purpose of text

□ Recognize & name upper & lowercase letters

Phonics & Reading

□ Rhymes, segmenting, blending, word play

□ Isolate beginning, middle and ending sounds

□ Letter sounds & sight words

□ Read on-level text with purpose & understanding, self-correct using context

Writing & Language

□ Use a combination of drawing, dictating and writing to create various types of compositions

□ Follow writing process (revise & publish) using peers & digital tools

□ Print many upper and lowercase letters

□ Use common nouns and verbs

□ Use question words & prepositions

□ Use complete sentences, capital letters (1st word & I), and end punctuation.

□ Spell simple words phonetically

Speaking & Listening

□ Participate in discussions appropriately

□ Ask and answer questions when needed

□ Describe details of familiar people, places, things and events.

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

Vocabulary

□ Learn & explore unknown words and phrases

□ Categorize objects & make real-life connections with words

□ Use newly acquired words and phrases

MATH

Number Names and Counting

□ Count to 100 by 1’s and by 10’s

□ Count forward from any given number

□ Write numbers from 0 to 20.

□ Write numbers to show how many

□ Work with teen numbers (11-19) to gain foundations for place value

Counting, Number Sense & Comparing

□ Count objects to 20

□ Count how many in a given set (total)

□ Know that arrangement or order doesn’t change total

□ Understand that the next number is one larger

□ Compare 2 groups of objects (less, more, equal)

□ Compare written numerals 1-10

Addition & Subtraction

□ Represent and solve addition and subtraction problems various ways (using objects, acting out, drawings, etc.)

□ Compose and decompose numbers to 20

□ Explore ways to make 10 using 2 numbers

□ Fluently add and subtract within 5

Measurement and Data

□ Explore length and weight

□ Describe several measurable attributes of one object

□ Compare & classify objects based on measurement

Shapes

□ Identify and describe shapes (circle, triangle, rectangle, square, hexagon, cube, cone, and cylinder)

□ Explore & describe shapes around us

□ Correctly name shapes regardless of orientation or size

□ Identify shapes as 2D or 3D

□ Analyze and compare shapes

□ Build and draw shapes

SCIENCE

□ Use scientific processes to explore, communicate and understand science.

□ Investigate nonliving things (rocks, water, and wind)

□ Observe and describe changes in day and night (sun, shadows, temperature)

□ Investigate weather

□ Investigate non-living things: movement, properties & parts

□ Investigate, compare and describe living things and their parts (plants and animals)

□ Explore five senses and related body parts

SOCIAL STUDIES

□ Understand and explain diversity and culture among individuals and families

□Demonstrate how to be a good and safe citizen

□ Recite name, address & phone number

□ Follow safety procedures for school emergencies & learn traffic symbols

□ Identity and articulate purpose and role of school & community helpers

□ Identify school symbols and traditions

□ Learn state and national symbols, songs and holidays

□ Know the words and meaning of the Pledge of Allegiance

□ Explore maps and globes

□ Understand human needs & wants

□ Learn about jobs and currency