Kindergarten
Grade K
READING, WRITING, LISTENING, AND SPEAKING
Students will:
- Work on “Concepts About Print,” which means they will become familiar with and understand how print is organized
- They will tell which is the front cover, back cover, and title page of a book.
- They will follow words from left to right and from top to of bottom on the printed page.
- They will tell letters apart from words.
- Recognize and name all lowercase and uppercase letters of the alphabet.
- Become aware that sounds make up spoken words.
- Develop an understanding that letters stand for sounds.
- Blend vowel-consonant sounds orally to make words or syllables. (VoweIs are a, e, i, o, u, and consonants are all the other letters.)
- Match all consonant and short vowel sounds to letters.
- Read simple one-syllable words and sight words.
- Identify words in basic categories such as colors, shapes, and foods
- Retell familiar stories.
- Ask and answer questions about a story.
- Identify the characters, settings (time and place), and important events of stories.
- Use letters and words they can spell phonetically to write about experiences, stories, people, objects, or events.
- Write by moving from left to right and from top to bottom. `
- Write uppercase and lowercase letters of the alphabet, paying attention to the form and correct spacing of the letters.
- Spell words by using the sounds of the alphabet and knowledge of the letter names.
- Recognize and use complete, understandable sentences when speaking.
- Understand and follow one- and two-step oral directions.
- Tell about familiar experiences or interests.
ENGLISH LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT (ELD) STANDARDS
BEGINNING LEVEL (ELD 1)
Students will:
- Begin to speak using a few words, phrases (not complete sentences), or sentences.
- Retell stories using drawings, simple words, or phrases (not complete sentences).
- Give out loud one- or two-word answers to questions about a story that is read to them or that they are sharing in a group.
- Respond to simple directions and questions by body movements or other ways that do not use talking.
- Copy words commonly used in the classroom, for example, number words, names, and days of the week.
EARLY INTERMEDIATE LEVEL (ELD 2) I
Students will:
- Read simple words, phrases, and sentences without help.
- Give out loud the sequence (the order) of a story that is read to them.
- Retell familiar stories by using body and face movements and drawings. ·
- Write one or two simple sentences about an experience.
INTERMEDIATE LEVEL (ELD 3)
Students will:
- Produce most English-language sounds understandably when they read out loud.
- Read a familiar story that has simple sentences and answer questions about it.
- Answer questions about school subjects by using simple I sentences and make up similar (like) questions. I
- Write short paragraphs of at least three lines following models (examples) given by the teacher.
EARLY ADVANCED LEVEL (ELD 4)
Students will:
- Use the words they have learned to begin independent reading.
- Read a story and tell about the plot (what happened), the setting (where it takes place), and the characters (who) in a story.
- Listen to stories or information and tell the important ideas and details.
- Write, without help, using the English grammar rules they already know.
ADVANCED LEVEL (ELD 5)
Students will:
- Use what English-language words they have learned to help them understand what they read in a story.
- Listen to a story and answer questions about what might happen in the story and compare the story with other stories.
- Use correct English when speaking.
- Write independently (without help) and show that they understand standard English.
MATHEMATICS
Students will: ·
- Compare two or more sets of objects (up to 10 objects in each group) and tell which set is equal to, more than, or less, than the other.
- Count, recognize, and put in order a number of objects (up to 30).
- Understand simple addition and subtraction for two numbers that are each less than 10.
- Identify, sort, and classify objects by common characteristics and identify objects that do not belong to a group; for example, all these balls are green, but those are red and do not belong to the green group.
- Compare objects by the length, weight, or volume by telling whether something is shorter, longer, taller, lighter, heavier, or larger.
- Demonstrate an understanding of concepts of time, for example, morning, afternoon, evening, today, yesterday, tomorrow, week, and year.
- Understand that tools such as the clock and calendar- measure time.
- Name the days of the week.
- Identify time to the nearest hour, such as, lunchtime is 12 o’clock or bedtime is 8 o’clock.
- Identify and tell about objects, for example, circle, triangle, square, rectangle, cube, and cone.
- Collect information and show the result of what has been gathered by counting out objects or making pictures.
- Make decisions about how to set up problems and about how to solve problems.



