Kindergarten
SECOND QUARTER LEARNING PRIORITIES
Common Core Kindergarten Literacy Standards Emphasized
READING LITERATURE / READING NONFICTIONKEY IDEAS AND DETAILS / KEY IDEAS AND DETAILS
1. With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text. / 1. With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
2. With prompting and support, retell familiar stories, including key details. / 2. With prompting and support, identify the main topic and retell key details of a text.
CRAFT AND STRUCTURE / CRAFT AND STRUCTURE
4. Ask and answer questions about unknown words in a text. / 4. With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about unknown words in a text.
6. With prompting and support, name the author and illustrator of a story and define the role of each in telling the story. / 6. Name the author and illustrator of a text and define the role of each in presenting the ideas or information in a text.
WRITING CCSS.W.K.2 EXPLANATORY/INFORMATIONAL
Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to compose informative/explanatory texts
in which they name what they are writing about and supply some information about the topic.
Kindergarten: Second Quarter Learning Priorities Weeks 10-11
Reading Literature
CCSSRL.K.1
Locate information—key details
Answer with evidence—literal and inferential questions
Figure out the theme / ANSWER WITH EVIDENCE
Infer about characters—traits, motives, and actions
Choose a character.
Who ………….. does what ……………..
INFER / Answer / evidence
why
what trait does that show?
/ ANSWER WITH EVIDENCE
Infer the main idea
What do you think the main idea is—what does the writer want you to understand—here are questions to help figure that out.
· What happens in the story?
· What does the writer want me to understand because that happens?
Support your answer with examples from the story
Science
CCSSRI.K.1
Locate information—key details—about a topic / read, experience, draw, list facts, write/tell about
TOPIC:
BIG QUESTION: / read, experience, draw, list facts, write/dictate about
TOPIC:
BIG QUESTION:
Social Science
CCSSRI.K.1
Locate information—key details about a topic / read, experience, draw, list facts, write/tell about
TOPIC:
BIG QUESTION: / read, experience, draw, list facts, write/dictate about
TOPIC:
BIG QUESTION::
Fluency
Rate, comprehension, expression, diction / This week’s read-aloud: / This week’s read-aloud:
Word Knowledge
Sight words
Include sight words from Fry high frequency list / Match sound/symbol/picture
Sight Words:
DIBELS/STEP: / Match sound/symbol/picture
Sight Words:
DIBELS/STEP:
Writing
CCSSW.K.2--explanatory/informational / Write alphabet letters in sequence—add a picture that shows how it sounds / Write letters and words or pictures that show how it sounds
Place words in sequence
MATH
Practice Standard 2: Think abstractly and quantitatively / This week’s focus:
Learning Journal / This week’s focus:
Learning Journal
Kindergarten: Second Quarter Learning Priorities Weeks 12-13
Reading Literature
CCSSRL.K.1
Locate information—key details
Answer with evidence—literal and inferential questions
Figure out the theme / DRAW LOGICAL CONCLUSIONS
Illustrate a story or history.
Show and name:
· Characters
· Main event
Tell the main idea. / DRAW LOGICAL CONCLUSIONS
Draw pictures that show what a poem means.
Science
CCSSRI.K.1
Locate information—key details—about a topic / read, experience, draw, list facts, write/tell about
TOPIC:
BIG QUESTION:
Summarize what you learned about it. Draw pictures and write important facts. / read, experience, draw, list facts, write/tell about
TOPIC:
BIG QUESTION:
Make a page or booklet about it.
Social Science
CCSSRI.K.1
Locate information—key details about a topic / read, experience, draw, list facts, write/tell about
TOPIC:
BIG QUESTION:
Summarize what you learned about it.
Draw pictures that show important facts. / read, experience, draw, list facts, write/tell about
TOPIC:
BIG QUESTION:
Make a page or booklet about it.
Fluency
Rate, comprehension, expression, diction / This week’s read-aloud: / This week’s read-aloud:
Word Knowledge
Sight words
Include sight words from Fry high frequency list / Match sound/symbol/picture
Sight Words:
DIBELS/STEP: / Identify, use beginning consonants
Sight Words:
DIBELS/STEP:
Writing
CCSSW.K.2--explanatory/informational / Write or arrange words in sentence / Write sentence.
MATH
Practice Standard 2: Think abstractly and quantitatively / This week’s focus:
Learning Journal / This week’s focus:
Learning Journal
Kindergarten: Second Quarter Learning Priorities Weeks 14-15
Reading Literature
CCSSRL.K.1
Locate information—key details
Answer with evidence—literal and inferential questions
Figure out the theme
CCSSRLK.6—how the book communicates / ANALYZE CLEARLY
Listen to/read a story. Tell how the writer and illustrator help you understand:
Part of the Story / What Words or Pictures tell you
People
The Place
/ ANALYZE CLEARLY
Listen to/read a story.
Tell how the writer and the illustrator help you understand:
What happens (list or draw)
What we can learn from that.
Science
CCSSRI.K.1
Locate information—key details—about a topic / read, experience, draw, list facts, write/tell about
TOPIC:
BIG QUESTION:
Tell how the writer tell and show information to help you understand the topic. / read, experience, draw, list facts, write/tell about
TOPIC:
BIG QUESTION:
Tell how the illustrator uses pictures to show you what is important.
Social Science
CCSSRI.K.1
Locate information—key details about a topic / read, experience, draw, list facts, write/tell about
TOPIC:
BIG QUESTION:
Tell how the writer tell and show information to help you understand the topic. / read, experience, draw, list facts, write/tell about
TOPIC:
BIG QUESTION:
Tell how the illustrator uses pictures to show you what is important.
Fluency
Rate, comprehension, expression, diction / This week’s read-aloud / This week’s read-aloud:
Word Knowledge
Sight words
Include sight words from Fry high frequency list / Identify initial consonants
Sight Words:
Assess DIBELS/STEP and Sight Word status. / Phonics: final consonants
Sight Words:
DIBELS/STEP:
Writing
CCSSW.K.2--explanatory/informational / Write letters
Write or arrange words in sentence / Build words with letters
Write/arrange sentences
MATH
Practice Standard 2: Think abstractly and quantitatively / This week’s focus:
Learning Journal / This week’s focus:
Learning Journal
Kindergarten: Second Quarter Learning Priorities Week 16-17
Reading Literature
CCSSRL.K.1
Locate information—key details
CCSSRL.K.2
summarize / ANALYZE QUESTIONS, RESPOND THOUGHTFULLY
Ask/answer with evidence:
Who/when/what/were questions – tell where in the story you find the information.
“Think out loud” about answering the questions. / ANALYZE QUESTIONS, RESPOND THOUGHTFULLY
Ask/answer how/why questions with evidence
question answer evidence
Science
CCSSRL.K.1
Locate information—key details
CCSSRI.K.2
summarize / TOPIC:
BIG QUESTION:
Ask fact/opinion questions—ask students to figure out if a question is about a fact or an opinion. Point out “clue” words such as “how do you feel about” or “what do you like about”. / TOPIC:
BIG QUESTION:
Answer compare and contrast and sequence questions with evidence.
Social Science
CCSSRL.K.1
Locate information—key details
CCSSRI.K.2
summarize / TOPIC:
BIG QUESTION:
Ask fact/opinion questions—ask students to figure out if a question is about a fact or an opinion. Point out “clue” words such as “how do you feel about” or “what do you like about”. / TOPIC:
BIG QUESTION:
Answer compare and contrast and sequence questions with evidence.
Fluency
Rate, comprehension, expression, diction / This week’s read-aloud: / This week’s read-aloud:
Word Knowledge
CCSSRI.K.2
Sight words
Include sight words and phrases from Fry high frequency list / Phonics: final consonants; rhyming
Sight Words:
DIBELS/STEP: / Phonics: Final consonants; substitution
Sight Words:
DIBELS/STEP:
Writing
CCSSW.K.2 / Build words with letters
Write sentences / Build words with letters.
Write sentences
MATH
Practice Standard 2
Think abstractly and quantitatively / This week’s focus:
Learning Journal / This week’s focus:
Learning Report
Kindergarten: Second Quarter Learning Priorities Weeks 18-19
/ Week 18 / Week 19 /Reading Literature
CCSSRL.K.2
summarize / SUMMARIZE
Classify information. Then summarize what your chart shows.
/ SUMMARIZE
Model and guide students to write an extended response based on a story—pictures and sentences.
Science
CCSSRI.K.2
summarize / read, experience, draw, list facts, write/tell about
TOPIC:
BIG QUESTION:
Make a poster or booklet or page that tells/shows what you have learned. / read, experience, draw, list facts, write/tell about
TOPIC:
BIG QUESTION: :
Make a poster or booklet or page that tells/shows what you have learned.
Social Science
CCSSRI.K.2
summarize / read, experience, draw, list facts, write/tell about
TOPIC:
BIG QUESTION:
Make a poster or booklet or page that tells/shows what you have learned. / read, experience, draw, list facts, write/tell about
TOPIC:
BIG QUESTION:
:
Make a poster or booklet or page that tells/shows what you have learned.
Fluency
Rate, comprehension, expression, diction / This week’s read-aloud: / This week’s read aloud:
Word Knowledge
CCSSRI.K.2
Sight words
Include sight words and phrases from Fry high frequency list / Match letters, sounds/pictures
Identify consonants (initial, final, medial)
Substitution
Rhyming
DIBELS/STEP
Sight Words: / Make a first-semester word display—what we have learned.
DIBELS/STEP:
This week’s sight words:
Writing
CCSSW.K.2 / Build words with letters.
Write sentences / Build words with letters
Write sentences
MATH
Practice Standard 2
Think abstractly and quantitatively / This week’s focus:
Learning Report / This week’s focus:
Make a math “book” that lists the words and numbers you have learned this quarter.
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Second Quarter Center for Urban Education Ó2012 http://teacher.depaul.edu