Kindergarten
Language Arts
Reading
Standard 1

WORD ANALYSIS, FLUENCY, AND SYSTEMATIC
VOCABULARY DEVELOPMENT


 
Resources
Lesson Plans
Assessments
Open Court materials:

1.  Framework for Effective Teaching Kindergarten Sounds and Letters (Teacher's Guide)

2.  Pickled Peppers: A Collections for Young Scholars Book (student text)

3.  Exploring Letters and Sounds (student consumable)

4.  Overview (Frameworks)

5.  Home/School Connections

6.  Learning Framework Cards

7.  Teacher Tool Cards:
 - Rhymes and Games
 - Songs
 - Classroom Support

8.  Wall Sound Cards

Discuss the cover, title, author, illustrator with each new book.

Lesson 46 in teacher text begins phonemic awareness,
coordinating with Exploring Letters and Sounds practice.

Previously Published Data

Discuss the cover, title, author, illustrator with each new book.

   Lesson 46 in teacher text begins phonemic awareness,
   coordinating with Exploring Letters and Sounds practice.


1.) As the week progresses with the Shared Reading book, students participate more actively as readers. As a culminating activity on Day Five, have students do a creative product from the story. Using the pattern from the book Ten Black Dots, have students contribute their own page toward a class book, such as One Yellow Dot Can Make the Sun in the Sky. Bind the pages of student work into a book for the classroom library.
2.) Give students opportunities to practice learned skills at literacy centers which allow them to be actively involved in learning. Time invested wisely in implementing centers is worthwhile because of the benefits for the teacher and students. After assessing the students, align center skills and outcomes with the students' needs in their progression toward the Reading/ Language Arts Standards. 

Ideas for Centers:

  • Magnetic letters 
  • Using clay letters to spell names
  • Sequence cards 
  • Listening Center
    3.) At the kindergarten level, language arts skills and understandings are still developed primarily through a variety of interactive language activities. Select activities that capitalize on students' natural curiosity and sense of playfulness and that provide extensive exposure to the alphabet and promote phonemic awareness. Also provide students with daily writing opportunities. Examples of learning activities for this age group include:
  • playing games that identify words that do not belong and singing songs or reciting texts that play with phonemes or that substitute words and word parts in a rhyming pattern
  • using physical responses, such as clapping, tapping, and body movements, to demonstrate syllabication or patterns in songs, stories, or words
  • sorting letters or identifying prominent letters in words
  • having guided discussions of read-alouds and other shared experiences
  • singing and reciting verses
  • staging class performances of stories and nursery rhymes
  • "reading" predictable books independently
  • tracing letters in sand; making letters out of clay; playing with letter blocks, magnetic letters, and pocket charts
  • writing in journals and dictating stories discussing word meanings, ideas, books, and experiences
    • 1.  Exploring Letters and Sounds workbook activities

    2.  Teacher observation

    Previously Published Data

    1.) The class book should include a page from each student. Assess for:

  • Correctly written number words 
  • Correctly written color words 
  • A consistent pattern from the book Ten Black Dots 
  • Proper capitalization 
  • Proper end punctuation Spelling .
    2.) Mary M. Clay's An Observation Survey includes the Concepts About Print (CAP), Letter Identification, Writing Vocabulary, and Hearing and Recording Sounds in Words (HRSW), which are used to assess students in identifying their skills.
    3.) Teacher observation, anecdotal records, and constant monitoring of skills mastered must be in place in order for assessment to drive the curriculum.

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