Norris School District, Curriculum

Kindergarten Reading

TEXTBOOK

            Children’s Literature Books (fiction and non-fiction)

DESCRITPTION

In Kindergarten students are involved in reading related activities and reading instruction for approximately 90 minutes of their day.  Our program is a phonics-based curriculum with a center approach.  We utilize our centers to reinforce the concepts being taught.  We teach phonemic awareness using a variety of methods.  We recognize that one of the best predictors of reading success is the skill of identifying letters and sounds.  We focus on this alphabetic principle through out the year.  In addition to this we introduce writing skills, literature enhancement, word recognition, listening and reading strategies.  Reading skills are integrated through out our curriculum.

COURSE OBJECTIVES

1.        Students will dictate oral sentences to the teacher. (1.1.1)

2.        Students will recognize and discriminate high frequency words. (1.1.1)

3.        Students will make letter/sound associations. (1.1.1)

4.        Students will name lowercase and uppercase letters of the alphabet. (1.1.2)

5.        Students will make the sounds and state the name of all the vowels and located vowels in one-syllable words. (1.1.2)

6.        Students will recognize and generate rhyming words. (1.1.2)

7.        Students recognize that reading goes from left to right. (1.1.3)

8.        Students will state what authors and illustrators do. (1.1.3)

9.        Students will print periods, commas and capital letters. (1.1.3)

10.     Students will be able to respond orally to literal questions and make predictions. (1.1.4)

11.     Students will use appropriate voice level when speaking. (1.1.4)

12.     Students will place pictures in correct order and retell the story. (1.1.4)

13.     Students will develop an attitude that reading is a process of getting meanings. (1.1.4)

14.     Students will listen to many types of books. (1.1.4)

15.     Students will distinguish between truth (fact) and make-believe (fiction) in literature. (1.1.4)

16.     Students will act out nursery rhymes and fairy tales. (1.1.5)

17.     Students will print uppercase and lowercase letters with recognizable accuracy and comfort. (1.1.6)

18.     Students will identify and print own full name correctly. (1.1.6)

19.     Students will speak in total sentences. (1.2.1)

20.     Students will participate in various class and group discussions. (1.2.1)

21.     Students will follow two-step oral directions. (1.3.1)

22.     Students will attend to speakers, teachers and classroom discussions. (1.3.1)

WRITING ACTIVITIES

MULTICULTURE ACTIVITIES