English/Language Arts: Kindergarten

Communication Process

Early Reading

Early Writing

Demonstrate Receptive Communication

Demonstrate Expressive Communication

Demonstrate ability to engage in conversations

Demonstrate awareness of the alphabet

Demonstrate phonological awareness 

Demonstrate awareness and understanding of concepts of print

Demonstrate comprehension

Demonstrate mechanics of writing

Demonstrate ability to communicate a story

Participate in collaborative conversations about grade-appropriate topics and texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups.

Ask and answer questions about key details in a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media. 

Follow simple two or three-step oral directions. 

With support, retell familiar stories, poems, and nursery rhymes, including key details.

With support, retell the main idea and key details of a text. 

Participate in collaborative conversations about grade-appropriate topics and texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups. 

Audibly, recite poems, rhymes, and songs, and use complete sentences to describe familiar people, places, things, and events. With support, provide additional details on these topics. 

Participate in collaborative conversations about grade-appropriate topics and texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups.

Ask questions to seek help, obtain information, or clarify something that is not understood.

Ask and answer questions about key details in a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media. 

Identify and name all uppercase (capital) and lowercase letters of the alphabet.

Identify and produce rhyming words. 

Orally pronounce, blend, and segment words into syllables. 

Identify and produce the beginning, middle (medial), and final sounds in three and four phoneme words.

Demonstrate understanding that print moves from left to right across the page and from top to bottom. 

Recognize that written words are made up of sequences of letters. 

Orally read decodable texts with appropriate accuracy and automaticity. 

With support, ask and answer questions about main topics and key details in a text heard or read. 

With support, retell familiar stories, poems, and nursery rhymes, including key details. 

With support, retell the main idea and key details of a text. 

Ask questions to seek help, obtain information, or clarify something that is not understood. 

Ask and answer questions about key details in a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media. 

Write most uppercase (capital) and lowercase letters of the alphabet, correctly shaping and spacing the letters of the words. 

Write by moving from left to right across the page and top to bottom. 

Demonstrate command of capitalization, punctuation, and spelling, focusing on: a. Capitalization: Capitalizing the first word in a sentence and the pronoun I. b. Punctuation: Recognizing and naming end punctuation. c. Encoding: Spelling simple words phonetically, drawing on phonemic awareness. 

Use words and pictures to develop a main idea and provide information about a topic.

Use words, pictures, and dictation to narrate a single event or simple story, arranging ideas in order. 

With support, apply the writing process to: a. Plan by generating ideas for writing through oral discussions and drawings; b. Develop drafts in pictorial or written form by organizing ideas; c. Revise writing by adding details in pictures or words; d. Use available technology to produce and publish writing.