Jones County SchoolsCurriculum Map Template

Grade Level: Kindergarten / Content Area: English/Language Arts / School Year: 2015-2016

Each Nine Weeks column should be divided based on the number of units in that grading period.

1st Nine Weeks / 2nd Nine Weeks / 3rd Nine Weeks / 4th Nine Weeks
Unit Name
Timeline (Number of weeks needed to teach unit) / August – October / October - December / January – March / March - May
Unit Standards (just the coding) / Reading Literary/ Informational
RI5 – Text Features
Reading Foundational
RF1a – Tracking Print
b – Spoken words represent written language
c – Finger spacing
d – Recognize and name all upper and lowercase letters.
RF2a – Recognize/produce rhyming words.
Speaking & Listening
SL1a – Rules for conversations
SL5 – Add drawings, displays, etc. to provide detail (Not in GKIDS)
SL6 – Speak/Express thoughts
Language
L1a – Print many upper and lowercase letters.
SL1b – Continues conversations.
L5a – Sort common objects / Reading Literary/ Informational
RL1/RI1 – Ask & answer questions
RL2/RI2 – Retell familiar stories/ identify main topics and details.
RL3/RI3 - Identify characters, setting, and major events in a story and describe connections.
RL4/RI4 – Ask/answer questions about unknown words in a text.
RL6/RI6 – Name Author & Illustrator and define roles.
RL7/RI7 – Describe relationships between illustrations and text.
Reading Foundational
RF2b – Count, pronounce, blend, segment syllables in spoken words.
c – Blend/segment onsets & rimes
d – Isolate and pronounce the initial, medial vowel, and final sounds in CVC words.
RF3a – Consonant letter sounds.
Speaking & Listening
SL2 – Confirm understanding of text.
SL3– Ask & answer questions.
SL4 – Describe familiar people, places, things and events.
Language
L1b – Use nouns & verbs
c – Adds s or es to words when speaking.
d – Understand and use question words.
e – Use prepositions
L5b - Opposites
c – Identify real life connections to words
d – Distinguish verb meaning (Not in GKIDS) / Reading Literary/ Informational
RL5 – Recognize common types of texts.
RL9/RI9 - Compare/contrast adventures & experiences of characters.
Reading Foundational
RF2e – Add/substitute individual sounds in 1 syllable words.
RF3c – Sight words.
d – Distinguish between similarly spelled words by identifying the sounds of the letters that differ.
Writing
W2 – Compose informational writing piece.
W3 – Compose a narrative writing piece.
W8 – Recall information in writing.
Language
L1f – Produce & expand complete sentences.
L2a – Capitalize 1st word in a sentence & I
b – Recognize & name punctuation
c – Write a letter or letters for consonants & short-vowel sounds.
d – Spell words phonetically
L4a – Identify new meanings of words.
L6 – Use acquired words and phrases. (Not in GKIDS) / Reading Literary/ Informational
RL10/RI10 - Engage in group readings.
RI8 – Identify reasons to support text.
Reading Foundational
RF4 – Read emergent-reader texts
Writing
W1 – Write an opinion piece
W5 – Respond to questions and suggestions and add detail in writing.
W6 - Digital tools to produce and publish writing.
W7 – Shared research & writing projects.
Language
L4b – Use inflections and affixes as a clue to the meaning of an unknown word.
Standards that are taught within all units
(may be on the benchmark) / NA
Explanation of standards included on Mid-Year benchmark (if needed) / NA