Kindergarten - English Language Arts & Literature

English Language Arts & Literature

Conventions: Understanding grammar, spelling, and punctuation makes it easier to communicate clearly, to organize thinking, and to use language for desired effects.

Fluency: Comprehension and literary appreciation are improved by the ability to read a range of texts accurately, automatically, and with expression.

Oral Language: Listening and speaking form the foundation for literacy development and improve communication, collaboration, and respectful mutual understanding.

Phonics: Foundational literacy is supported by understanding relationships between sounds in oral language and the letters that represent them.

Phonological Awareness: Foundational literacy is supported by the ability to identify and manipulate sounds in oral language.

Text Forms and Structures: Identifying and applying text forms and structures improves understanding of content, literary style, and our rich language traditions.

Vocabulary: Communication and comprehension are improved by understanding word meaning and structures.

Writing: Ideas and information can be articulated accurately and imaginatively through the use of writing processes and an understanding of the author’s craft.

How do conventions support literacy development?

How does letter and word recognition support the development of fluency?

In what ways can listening and speaking communicate feelings, ideas, and information?

How do letters and sounds work together to make words?

How are sound and oral language connected?

How can ideas and information be organized?

How can word knowledge contribute to building vocabulary?

How can messages be recorded?

Children develop appropriate grammar in oral language and experiment with spelling and punctuation in written messages.

Children recognize some letters and words with speed and accuracy

Children explore listening and speaking skills through a variety of literacy experiences.

Children make connections between letters and sounds in words.

Children experiment with sounds in words.

Children explore how messages can be organized.

Children develop vocabulary through a variety of literacy experiences.

Children experiment with written expression of ideas and information.