Kindergarten 4TH 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.
3. With prompting and support, identify characters, settings, and major events in a story. / 3. With prompting and support, describe the connection between two individuals, events, ideas, or pieces of information in 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.
INTEGRATION OF KNOWLEDGE AND IDEAS / INTEGRATION OF KNOWLEDGE AND IDEAS
7. With prompting and support, describe the relationship between illustrations and the story in which they appear (e.g., what moment in a story an Illustration depicts). / 7. With prompting and support, describe the relationship between illustrations and the text in which they appear (e.g., what person, place, thing, or idea in the text an illustration depicts).
Remember to explore different genres with students.
Writing: CPS Framework Assessment Specification
CCSSW.K.8 With guidance and support from adults, recall information from experiences or gather information from provided sources to answer a question.
The Speaking and Listening Standards are Keys to Learning ACROSS the Curriculum
Comprehension and Collaboration
• CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.K.1 Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about kindergarten topics and texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.K.1a Follow agreed-upon rules for discussions (e.g., listening to others and taking turns speaking about the topics and texts under discussion).
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.K.1b Continue a conversation through multiple exchanges.
• CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.K.2 Confirm understanding of a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media by asking and answering questions about key details and requesting clarification if something is not understood.
• CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.K.3 Ask and answer questions in order to seek help, get information, or clarify something that is not understood.
Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas
• CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.K.4 Describe familiar people, places, things, and events and, with prompting and support, provide additional detail.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.K.5 Add drawings or other visual displays to descriptions as desired to provide additional detail.CCSS.ELALiteracy.SL.K.6 Speak audibly and express thoughts, feelings, and ideas clearly.
Students exercise Speaking and Listening competencies as they proceed through the gradual release of responsibility.
NEXT GRADE PREP REQUIREMENTS
Identify content and skills to emphasize from this chart, your curriculum, and your assessment results.
Then adjust the priorities for each week to complete the school year priorities.
READINGAnswer questions with evidence / o Locate information in pictures
o Listen for information
o Re-tell stories
o Identify character traits and actions
o Classify
o Compare/contrast
o Predict
o Explain what the parts of a book are / SCIENCE
Learn ideas through experiences and reading. / o How to learn science by looking
o How to learn science by listening
o How to learn science from books
o How to explain science with pictures and words
o How to answer a question about a topic
GENRES / o Fiction: stories, fairy tales, folk tales, and realistic fiction
o Poems, songs, paintings—students can infer the ideas in all of them
o Non-Fiction: science, social studies / SOCIAL STUDIES
Learn ideas through experiences and reading. / o How to learn about a place from a model or map
o How to learn about a topic by listening
o How to “read” a picture
o How to learn about different people and places through books and other sources.
o How to explain a topic with pictures and words
WORD KNOWEDGE
PHONICS / o Consonants
o Vowels
o Initial consonant blends
o Sight words—the Fry vocabulary
o Fry phrases / MATH
Numbers and Operations / o Count, read, write #1-20
o Compare whole numbers
o Recognize words to 10
o Represent numbers using physical models
o Represent number facts to 20
o Add
o Count by 2’s, 10’s
o Count backwards
o Subtract
o Word problems
o Fractions (whole, half)
WRITING / o build sentences
o descriptive writing
o dictate language experience stories
o write captions
o write sentences / LEARNING SKILLS / o Listen
o Work with others
o Follow directions
o Collaborative conversations
Kindergarten: FOURTH QUARTER Learning Priorities Weeks 30-31
/ Week 30 / Week 31 /Reading Literature
CCSSR.K.1—read closely, then infer with evidence
CCSSRL.K.3--Identify/describe characters, main events
CCSSRK.6—role of illustrator / Identify characters and traits and actions
Draw and write captions for pictures that communicate about characters and actions.
Figure out how pictures help show characters and traits and events. / Identify characters and infer traits from actions
Draw and write captions for pictures that communicate the characters’ traits.
Figure out how pictures help show characters and traits and events.
Science
CCSSRI.K.2
Provide information to explain a topic
CCSSWK.8 Write to explain / TOPIC:
BIG FOCUS QUESTION:
Read, experience, listen, list, then write and draw to answer the question.
Make picture glossary / TOPIC:
BIG FOCUS QUESTION:
Read, experience, listen, list, then write and draw to answer the question.
Make picture glossary
Social Science
CCSSRI.K.2
Provide information to explain a topic
CCSSWK8. Write to explain / TOPIC:
BIG FOCUS QUESTION:
Read, experience, listen, list, then write and draw to answer the question.
Make picture glossary / TOPIC:
BIG FOCUS QUESTION:
Read, experience, listen, list, then write and draw to answer the question.
Make picture glossary
Fluency
Rate, comprehension, expression / This week’s read aloud: / This week’s read-aloud:
Word Knowledge
CCSSR.K.4
Include sight words from Fry high frequency list
Use the Fry Phrases to make word use clear / Sight Words:
PHONICS: / Sight Words:
PHONICS:
Writing
CCSSW.K.8—write to answer questions about a topic / Descriptive writing—add words to sentences; write sentences—connect to science or social science / Descriptive writing—add words to sentences; write sentences—connect to science or social science
MATH
Practice Standard 2: Think abstractly and quantitatively / Focus:
Terms:
Journal / Focus:
Terms:
Journal
Kindergarten: FOURTH QUARTER Learning Priorities Weeks 32-33
/ Week 32 / Week 33 /Reading Literature
CCSSRK.2—identify theme/message
CCSSRK.6—role of author and illustrator
Recommended: Vary genres / Identify how writers use words and details to communicate.
Use your own words to communicate about the central message (theme) or lesson of a story.
Figure out how the writer and illustrator put a story into a book. / Identify how writers use words and details to communicate.
Use your own words to communicate about the central message (theme) or lesson of a story.
Figure out how the writer and illustrator put a story into a book.
Science
CCSSRI.K.2
Provide information to explain a topic / TOPIC:
BIG FOCUS QUESTION:
Read, experience, listen, list, then write and draw to answer the question.
Make picture glossary / TOPIC:
BIG FOCUS QUESTION:
Read, experience, listen, list, then write and draw to answer the question.
Make picture glossary
Social Science
CCSSRI.K.2
Provide information to explain a topic / TOPIC:
BIG FOCUS QUESTION:
Read, experience, listen, list, then write and draw to answer the question.
Make picture glossary / TOPIC:
BIG FOCUS QUESTION:
Read, experience, listen, list, then write and draw to answer the question.
Make picture glossary
Fluency
Rate, comprehension, expression / This week’s read-aloud: / This week’s read aloud:
Word Knowledge
CCSSR.K.4
Include sight words from Fry high frequency list
Use the Fry Phrases to make word use clear / Sight Words:
PHONICS: / Sight Words:
PHONICS:
Writing
CCSSW.K.8—write to answer questions about a topic / Descriptive writing—add words to sentences; write sentences with details / Language experience “reports” about experiences or learning from books
MATH
Practice Standard 2—think quantitatively and abstractly / Focus:
Terms:
Journal / Focus:
Terms:
Journal
Kindergarten: FOURTH QUARTER Learning Priorities Weeks 34-35
Reading Literature
CCSSRL.K.9
Analyze across stories / Compare and contrast adventures of characters in familiar stories.
CCSSRLK.9 / Compare and contrast adventures of characters in familiar stories.
CCSSRLK.9
Science
CCSSRI.K.2
Provide information to explain a topic / TOPIC:
BIG FOCUS QUESTION:
Read, experience, listen, list, then write and draw to answer the question.
Make picture glossary / TOPIC:
BIG FOCUS QUESTION:
Read, experience, listen, list, then write and draw to answer the question.
Make picture glossary
Social Science
CCSSRI.K.2
Provide information to explain a topic / TOPIC:
BIG FOCUS QUESTION:
Read, experience, listen, list, then write and draw to answer the question.
Make picture glossary / TOPIC:
BIG FOCUS QUESTION:
Read, experience, listen, list, then write and draw to answer the question.
Make picture glossary
Fluency / Students read aloud with increased fluency / This week’s read-aloud:
Word Knowledge
CCSSR.K.4
Include sight words from Fry high frequency list
Use the Fry Phrases to make word use clear / Sight Words:
PHONICS: / Sight Words:
PHONICS:
Writing
CCSSW.K.3
narrative / Write story—words and/or pictures showing characters and events / I can draw a biography—
Me this year
MATH
Practice Standard 2—think abstractly and quantitatively / Focus:
Terms:
Journal / Focus:
Terms:
Journal
Kindergarten: FOURTH QUARTER Learning Priorities Weeks 36-37
/ Week 36 / Week 37 /Reading Literature
CCSSRL.K.9
Analyze across stories / Compare and contrast different stories with the same theme. / Compare and contrast different stories with the same theme—may include folk tales, fables, as well as contemporary fiction.
Science
CCSSRI.K.2
summarize / TOPIC:
BIG FOCUS QUESTION:
Read experience write draw about BIG idea/BIG question
List important facts
Summarize
Make picture glossary / TOPIC:
BIG FOCUS QUESTION:
Read experience write draw about BIG idea/BIG question
List important facts
Summarize
Make picture glossary
Social Science
CCSSRI.K.2
summarize / TOPIC:
BIG FOCUS QUESTION:
Read, experience, listen, list, then write and draw to answer the question.
Make picture glossary / TOPIC:
BIG FOCUS QUESTION:
Read, experience, listen, list, then write and draw to answer the question.
Make picture glossary
Fluency / This week’s read aloud: / This week’s read aloud:
Word Knowledge
CCSSR.K.4
Include sight words from Fry high frequency list
Use the Fry Phrases to make word use clear / Sight Words:
PHONICS:
Word Bank—what are my favorite words? / Sight Words:
PHONICS:
Word book—what are my favorite words?
Writing
CCSSW.K.2—explanatory text / I can make a picture book about a topic / Make a picture book about a topic with words and sentences, too.
MATH
Practice Standard 2
Think abstractly and quantitatively / Focus:
Terms:
Journal / Focus:
Terms:
Journal
Kindergarten: FOURTH QUARTER Learning Priorities Weeks 38-39
Reading Literature / Recognize Progress
Our Favorite Books
What we learned by reading them. / Recognize Progress
Our Favorite Books
Why we like them.
What we will read this summer.
Science
CCSSRI.K.2
summarize / What we learned about science this year—learning display or booklets, each student contributes / What we learned about science this year—learning display or booklets, each student contributes
Social Science
CCSSRI.K.2
summarize / What we learned about social science this year—learning display or booklets, each student contributes / What we learned about social science this year—learning display or booklets, each student contributes
Fluency / This Week’s Read-Aloud: / This week’s Read-Aloud:
Word Knowledge
CCSSR.K.4
Include sight words from Fry high frequency list
Use the Fry Phrases to make word use clear / Sight Words:
PHONICS:
Make a class pictionary/dictionary, classifying words by topics. / Make a class pictionary/dictionary, classifying words by topics.
Recognize progress—chart how much the class learned.
Writing
CCSSW.K.2 / Write about what you learned.
Each student can contribute to a personal portfolio and a class learning portfolio. / Write about what you learned.
Each student can contribute to a personal portfolio and a class learning portfolio.
MATH
Practice Standard 2
Think abstractly and quantitatively / Math Yearbook—what we’ve learned / Math Yearbook—what we’ve learned
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