Kindergarten ELA Skills taught in Kindergarten:
Phonemic and Phonological Awareness Skills
* Writing first and last names using appropriate upper and lowercase letters
* Identifying, printing and associating sounds to the all the consonants and vowels.
* Rhyming words
* Identifying pictures that rhyme
* Identifying and spelling the color words (ask your child to sing you the color songs)
* Learning new sight words (refer to the sight word link for a complete list of words)
* Identifying same/different sounds in words
* Alphabetical order
* Tapping out CVC words (consonant-vowel- consonant)
* Changing the beginning/ending sound to form new words
* Counting syllables in words
* Identifying sounds in beginning, medial and ending positions
* Associating sounds to the digraphs- wh, ch, sh, th, ck
* Introduction to long vowels
Speaking, Listening, Reading and Writing Skills
* Recognizing genres (informational text, realistic fiction, fantasy, etc)
* Describing the role of the author and illustrator
* Describing the relationship between illustrations and text or photographs and text
* Associating pictures with text
* Reading emergent reader texts with purpose and understanding
* Asking and answering questions about stories
* Retelling and sequencing story events
* Identifying characters, setting and major events in stories
* Labeling pictures with sounds we know
* Writing, illustrating and sharing narrative stories
* Writing, illustrating and sharing informational pieces
* Writing, illustrating and sharing opinion pieces
* Writing first and last names using appropriate upper and lowercase letters
* Identifying, printing and associating sounds to the all the consonants and vowels.
* Rhyming words
* Identifying pictures that rhyme
* Identifying and spelling the color words (ask your child to sing you the color songs)
* Learning new sight words (refer to the sight word link for a complete list of words)
* Identifying same/different sounds in words
* Alphabetical order
* Tapping out CVC words (consonant-vowel- consonant)
* Changing the beginning/ending sound to form new words
* Counting syllables in words
* Identifying sounds in beginning, medial and ending positions
* Associating sounds to the digraphs- wh, ch, sh, th, ck
* Introduction to long vowels
Speaking, Listening, Reading and Writing Skills
* Recognizing genres (informational text, realistic fiction, fantasy, etc)
* Describing the role of the author and illustrator
* Describing the relationship between illustrations and text or photographs and text
* Associating pictures with text
* Reading emergent reader texts with purpose and understanding
* Asking and answering questions about stories
* Retelling and sequencing story events
* Identifying characters, setting and major events in stories
* Labeling pictures with sounds we know
* Writing, illustrating and sharing narrative stories
* Writing, illustrating and sharing informational pieces
* Writing, illustrating and sharing opinion pieces