District 11 Educational Support Services
Literacy & Language Arts

Kindergarten, Quarter 3: February Unit
 

Overview                                                                             
Students will gain information from nonfiction sources. They will also discuss reasonable solutions to a problem. Students will make connections with reading materials to events in their own lives. The writing of kindergarten students should include practice in spacing, correct use of capital letters, and punctuation. Students will practice listening and sharing written work with classmate.                     

 

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Enduring Understandings

  • Different strategies and skills are required to understand a variety of materials.

  • People apply different strategies and skills when reading, writing, speaking, listening, and viewing.

  • People access, read, evaluate, and use a variety of resources to get information.

Essential Questions

  • Why do we need to understand what we read? *How do we understand what we read?

  • Why are the sounds and letters in words important?

  • How do we communicate what we have read?

  • Why is it important to really think about what we read?

  • Why do I need a variety of resources? How do I access information and use it responsibly? How do I evaluate resources?

Standards
Must be Mastered by End of Year Must be Introduced Other Standards & E-skills
 

Phonemic Awareness
        Recognize, hear, and produce patterns of sound in oral language.
        Identify the phonemes of most one syllable words.
        Blend the phonemes of most one syllable words.
       
Segment the phonemes of most one syllable words.
 

Phonics

See Correct Letter Formation from August
        Recognize and name all letters.
        Know letter sounds.
        Apply knowledge of letter-sounds to decode single syllable words.
        Read simple words including a few sight words.
 

Fluency

At the end of quarter three, students will be able to read 50 of D11 sight words.

    Read orally simple text containing familiar word patterns.
 

Vocabulary

    Repeats simple words.
 

Comprehension
  Connect information and events in texts to life experiences.
    Tell a simple story with a beginning, middle, and end.
    Retell a known story in own words and in correct sequence.
       
Listen to and comprehend a variety of genres.
   
    Generate a picture/written response to text listened to or read.

Writes for a Variety of Purposes 

Has an idea, topic or point.

Creates picture/plan.

Makes sense when read aloud by student.

Contains some details.

Tries some interesting words which paint a picture.
 

Conventions, Mechanics, and Grammar 

Uses capitals to start sentences, names, I.

Uses emergent spelling which can be read.

Writes left to right, top to bottom.

Uses spaces between words.

Uses end punctuation.

Spells sight words correctly using word wall.

Neatness.

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