Standard: RF K.1: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing and speaking.

L K 1.a: Print many upper and lowercase letters.

Essential Skills/Concepts / Teaching Notes/Strategies / Resources
  • Recognize upper and lowercase letters
  • Correctly form letters

Standard:

LK1.b: Use frequently occurring nouns and verbs.

Essential Skills/Concepts / Teaching Notes/Strategies / Resources
Define:
Nouns: people, places, things
Verbs: action words

Standard: LK1 (cont…)

L K 1.c: Form regular plural nouns orally by adding /s/ or /es/.

Essential Skills/Concepts / Teaching Notes/Strategies / Resources
  • Understand that singular=1
  • Plural= more than 1
  • Singular nouns can become plural by adding –s or –es.

Standard:

LK 1.d: Understand and use question words.

Essential Skills/Concepts / Teaching Notes/Strategies / Resources
Form questions: WHO, WHAT, WHERE, WHEN, WHY, HOW /
  • Build in with Inquiry Charts
  • RI/RL K1.:Ask and answer questions about text

Standard: LK1 (cont…)

LK 1.e: Use the most frequently occurring prepositions.

Essential Skills/Concepts / Teaching Notes/Strategies / Resources
  • Know that position of objects can be described by using:
from, in, on, above, below, behind, around, inside, outside, etc…

Standard:

L K1.f: Produce and expand complete sentences in shared language activities.

Essential Skills/Concepts / Teaching Notes/Strategies / Resources
  • Speak in complete sentences
  • Know that details can be added to expand sentences
  • “tell me more”
/
  • Super sentences
  • Color code various parts of a sentence (WHO, WHAT, WHERE, WHEN, HOW, WHY)
***Tie into revising standard W K.5

Standard: LK.2: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.

LK 2.a: Capitalize the first word in a sentence and the pronoun I.

Essential Skills/Concepts / Teaching Notes/Strategies / Resources
  • Know that a sentence begins with a capital letter
  • I
  • Use phonetic spelling when writing

Standard:

LK 2.b: Recognize and name end punctuation.

Essential Skills/Concepts / Teaching Notes/Strategies / Resources
  • Know when to use a period, question mark, and exclamation point
  • Know and write a sentence
/
  • Anchor charts/living charts
  • Mentor text: examples of different sentences
  • Movements tied to punctuation marks

L K 2.c: Write a letter or letters for most consonant and short vowel sounds

Essential Skills/Concepts / Teaching Notes/Strategies / Resources
  • Understand the relationship between a letter and a sound that it makes
  • Proper letter formation
/
  • Tie into RF K1b
  • Tie into RF K1.d

Standard:

L K 2.d: Spell simple words phonetically, drawing on knowledge of sound letter relationships

Essential Skills/Concepts / Teaching Notes/Strategies / Resources
  • Retrieve appropriate letter when identifying a sound
  • Phonetic spelling

Standard: 4. Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple meaning words and phrases

based on Kindergarten reading and content.

LK 4.a: Identify the new meanings for familiar words and apply them accurately

(e.g. knowing duck is a bird and learning the verb to duck)

Essential Skills/Concepts / Teaching Notes/Strategies / Resources
  • Know that some words have other meanings
  • Use context and/or pictures to help determine a new meaning for a known word
/
  • Use context and picture clues to help determine a new meaning
  • Living charts with lots of visuals!
  • TPR
  • Board Language

Standard:

LK 4.b: Use the most frequently occurring inflections and affixes as a clue to the meaning of an unknown word

Essential Skills/Concepts / Teaching Notes/Strategies / Resources
  • Know that parts can be added to a word to change its meaning
  • (e.g. –ed, -s, re-, un-, pre-, -ful, -less)
/
  • Board Language
  • Teach meanings of the word parts

Standard: 5. With guidance and support from adults, demonstrate understanding of word relationships and nuances in word meanings.

LK 5 a: Sort common objects into categories to gain a sense of the concepts the categories represent.

Essential Skills/Concepts / Teaching Notes/Strategies / Resources
  • Categorize and Classify
  • Sort objects into groups; name the groups

Standard:

LK 5.b: Demonstrate understanding of frequently occurring verbs and adjectives by relating them to their opposites

Essential Skills/Concepts / Teaching Notes/Strategies / Resources
  • Define: Verbs
  • Define: Adjectives
  • Know what an opposite is
/
  • Tie into L K1.b
  • Anchor Charts
  • If it is not ____; it is ____.
  • Riddles and guessing games

Standard:

LK 5.c: Identify real life connections between words and their use

Essential Skills/Concepts / Teaching Notes/Strategies / Resources
  • Make connections to real world experiences and the meaning of the word
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  • The house is cozy. What do you do in a house that is cozy?
  • Can you think of a place here at school that is colorful?

Standard:

LK 5.d: Distinguish shades of meaning among verbs describing the same general action by acting out the meanings.

Essential Skills/Concepts / Teaching Notes/Strategies / Resources
  • Know what a verb is
  • Teach synonyms in the context of:
____ is another word for ______. /
  • Living charts
  • TPR/ Acting out the verbs
  • Board Language
(e.g. walk, march, strut, prance)
  • Tree map

Standard: 6.Use words and phrases acquired through conversations, reading and being read to, and responding to texts.

Essential Skills/Concepts / Teaching Notes/Strategies / Resources
  • Know how to take turns/rules for speaking to others
  • Respond in complete sentences
  • Stay on topic
  • Use vocabulary in conversations about what you have learned
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  • Teach procedures
  • Sentence frames for discussion with A/B partners
  • Tie into RI/RL reading comp standards
  • Use Pictorial Input as a starting point for conversations