Kindergarten Reading	Word Analysis, Fluency, and Systematic Vocabulary Development	Concepts About Print: 1.1 Identify the front cover, back cover, and title page of a book. 1.4 Recognize that sentences in print are made up of separate words. 1.5 Recognize and name all upper and lower case letters of the alphabet. Phonemic Awareness 1.10 Identify and produce rhyming words in response to an oral prompt. 1.11 Distinguish orally stated one-syllable words and separate into beginning or ending sounds. 1.12 Track auditorily each word in a sentence and each syllable in a word. Decoding and Word Recognition 1.14 Match all consonant and short-vowel sounds to appropriate letters. 1.15 Read simple one-syllable and high-frequency words (i.e., sight words). 1.16 Understand that as letters of words change, so do the sounds (i.e., the alphabetic principle).
	Reading Comprehension	2.1 Locate the title, table of contents, name of author, and name of illustrator. 2.2 Use pictures and context to make predictions about story content. 2.4 Retell familiar stories.
	Literary Response and Analysis	Students listen and respond to stories: 3.1 Distinguish fantasy from realistic text. 3.2 Identify types of everyday print materials (e.g., storybooks, poems, newspapers, signs labels). 3.3 Identify characters, settings and important events.
Writing	Writing Strategies	Students write words and brief sentences that are legible. Organization and Focus 1.1 Use letters and phonetically spelled words to write about experience, stories, people, objects, or events. 1.3 Write by moving from left to right and from top to bottom. Penmanship 1.4 Write uppercase and lowercase letters of the alphabet independently, attending to the form and proper spacing of the letters.
	Written and Oral English Language Conventions	Sentence Structure 1.1 Recognize and use complete, coherent sentences when speaking. Spelling 1.2 Spell independently by using pre-phonetic knowledge, sounds of the alphabet, and knowledge of letter names.
Listening and Speaking	Listening and Speaking Strategies	1.1 Understand and follow one- and two-step directions. 1.2 Share information and ideas, speaking audibly in complete, coherent sentences.

NUMBER SENSE	1.1 Compare two or more sets of objects (up to ten objects in each group) and identify which set is equal to, more than, or less than the other. 1.2 Count, recognize, represent, name, and order a number of objects (up to 30). 2.1 Use concrete objects to determine the answers to addition and subtraction problems (for two numbers that are each less than 10). 3.1 Recognize when an estimate is reasonable.
ALGEBRA & FUNCTIONS	1.1 Identify, sort, and classify objects by attribute and identify objects that do not belong to a particular group (e.g., all these balls are green, those are red).
MEASUREMENT & GEOMETRY	1.1 Compare the length, weight, and capacity of objects by making direct comparisons with reference objects (e.g., note which object is shorter, longer, taller, lighter, heavier, or holds more). 1.4 Identify the time (to the nearest hour) of everyday events (e.g., lunch time is 12 o’clock; bedtime is 8 o’clock at night). 2.1 Identify and describe common geometric objects (e.g., circle, triangle, square, rectangle, cube, sphere, and cone).
Statistics, Data Analysis, and Probability	1.2 Identify, describe, and extend simple patterns (such as circles or triangles) by referring to their shapes, sizes, or colors.
Mathematical Reasoning	1.2 Use tools and strategies, such as manipulatives or sketches, to model problems. 2.2 Make precise calculations and check the validity of the results in the context of the problem.

Analysis Skills	Chronological and Thinking	1. Students place key events and people of the historical era they are studying in a chronological sequence and within a spatial context; they interpret time lines. 3. Students explain how the present is connected to the past, identifying both similarities and differences between the two, and how some things change over time and some things stay the same.
	Research, Evidence, and Point of View	2. Students pose relevant questions about events they encounter in historical documents, eyewitness accounts, oral histories, letter, diaries, artifacts, photographs, maps, artworks, and architecture.
Content Standards	K.1	1. Follow rules, such as sharing and taking turns, and know the consequences of breaking them. 2. Learn examples of honesty, courage, determination, individual responsibility, and patriotism in American and world history from stories and folklore. 3. Know beliefs and related behaviors of characters in stories from times past and understand the consequences of the characters’ actions.
	K.2	· Students recognize national and state symbols and icons such as the national and state flags, the bald eagle, and the Statue of Liberty.
	K.3	· Students match simple descriptions of work that people do and the names of related jobs at the school, in the local community, and from historical accounts.
	K 5	· Students put events in temporal order using a calendar, placing days, weeks, and months in proper order.

Physical Sciences	1. Properties of materials can be observed, measured, and predicted.	As a basis for understanding this concept: a. Students know objects can be described in terms of the materials they are made of (e.g., clay, cloth, paper) and their physical properties (e.g., color, size, shape, weight, texture, flexibility, attraction to magnets, floating, sinking). b. Students know water can be a liquid or a solid and can be made to change back and forth from one form to the other. c. Students know water left in an open container evaporates (goes into the air) but water in a closed container does not.
Life Sciences	2. Different types of plants and animals inhabit the earth.	As a basis for understanding this concept: a. Students know how to observe and describe similarities and differences in the appearance and behavior of plants and animals (e.g., seed-bearing plants, birds, fish, and insects). b. Students know stories sometimes give plants and animals attributes they do not really have.
Earth Sciences	3. Earth is composed of land, air, and water.	As a basis for understanding this concept: a. Students know characteristics of mountains, rivers, oceans, valleys, deserts, and local landforms. b. Students know changes in weather occur from day to day and across seasons, affecting Earth and its inhabitants.
Investigation & Experimentation	4. Scientific progress is made by asking meaningful questions and conducting careful investigations.	As a basis for understanding this concept students will: a. Observe common objects by using the five senses. d. Compare and sort common objects based on one physical attribute (e.g., color, shape, texture, size, weight).