Kindergarten
Language Arts
Written and Oral English Language Conventions
Standard 1

WRITTEN AND ORAL ENGLISH
LANGUAGE CONVENTIONS


 
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



Students respond in complete sentences to these questions:
What is today's date?
What is the weather today?
What time is it?
Previously Published Data

1.) Provide each student with paper that has both lines and a space for an illustration. Each student should write one or two sentences about the focus student and draw a picture that illustrates the sentence. These pages should then be bound together to make a class book for the class library. Each student's book can be used for independent reading activities throughout the year. At the end of the year, each student receives his/ her focus student book.



1. Exploring Letters and Sounds workbook activities

2.  Teacher observation





Previously Published Data

1.) Note that each student's contribution to the book is appropriate. Emergent writers may just write the name of the focus student and illustrate it. Early writers may write the name of the student an a sentence. The fluent writers will expand on the previous statement. The teacher will bind the completed pages into a book. Place the book in the class library for independent reading and eventually the focus student will take the book home. Criteria for focus student page:

  • appropriate comment on focus student gleaned from the interview
  • progress towards at-standard writing (left-to-right progress, return sweep, letter size, spacing, capital letters, punctuation, complete sentences)

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