Please review the Parent Rubrics for Standard Based Report Card
QUARTER TWO
READING/LANGUAGE ARTS
Reading Literary
Asks and answers questions about key details in a text
Identifies characters, settings and major events in a story
Names and defines the role of the author and illustrator of a story
Describes the relationship between illustrations and the story
Compares and contrasts the characters in familiar stories
Reading Informational
Describes the connection between two individuals, events or ideas
Identifies the front cover, back cover and title page of a book
Names and defines the role of the author and illustrator in a story
Reading: Foundational (Phonological Awareness)
Tracks print from left to right, top to bottom and page to page
Recognizes and names ALL uppercase letters
Recognizes and names ALL lowercase letters
Recognizes and produces rhyming words
Counts, pronounces, blends and segments syllables in spoken words
Produces sounds for each consonant
Reads 50 or more common high frequency words by sight
Reads emergent reader text with understanding (DRA level 2 or higher)
Writing
Draws, writes, and dictates information about a topic
Explores a number of books by a favorite author
With guidance and support, the student gathers information from provided
resources to answer questions
Speaking and Listening
Participates in conversations about Kindergarten topics and texts
Answers questions about key details in a text
Asks questions when clarification is needed
Describes familiar people, places, things and events
Creates drawings or other visual displays to provide additional details when
writing
Speaks and expresses thoughts clearly
Language / Vocabulary / Phonics
Understands and uses question words (Interrogatives)
Capitalizes the first word in a sentence and the pronoun “I”
Writes a letter for consonant and short vowel sounds
Spells simple words phonetically
Identifies new meanings for familiar words and applies them accurately
Sorts common objects into categories to gain a sense of the concepts the
categories represent
Understands frequently occurring verbs and adjectives and relates them to
opposites
Identifies real life connections between words and their use
Distinguishes verbs describing the same general action by acting out the
meaning
Uses words and phrases acquired through conversation, reading and being read
to, and responding to text
SOCIAL STUDIES
Historical Understandings
Identifies purpose and customs of 4-5 U.S. holidays (Labor Day, Columbus
Day, Veteran’s Day, Thanksgiving Day, Independence Day)
Uses time words to describe how things change (now, long ago, morning,
afternoon, night, first, next, last, past, present, future)
Geographical Understandings
Tells personal geographic information: street, city-Columbus, state-Georgia,
county-Muscogee
Describes American celebrations and customs
Identifies a map (drawing) and globe (model), as well as, land and water
features
Civics/Government Understandings
Understands rules for good citizenship
Demonstrates patriotism and positive character traits
MATH
Counting and Cardinality
Knows number names and the count sequence
Counts to 50 by ones and counts to 100 by tens
Counts forward beginning from a given number within the known sequence
Writes numbers from 0 to 20
Represents a number of objects with a written numeral 0-20.
Counts to tell the number of objects
When counting objects, says the number names in the standard order, pairing
each object with one number name
Understands that the last number name said tells the number of objects
counted
Understands that each successive number name refers to a quantity that is
one larger
Counts to answer “how many?” questions for up to 20 things arranged in a
line, a rectangular array, or a circle, or as many as 10 things in a
scattered configuration
Compares numbers
Identifies whether the number of objects in one group is >, <, or = to the
number of objects in another group
Compares two written numbers between 1 and 10
Number/Algebraic: Number Base 10/Operations
Understands addition as putting together and subtraction as taking apart
Represents addition and subtraction with objects, fingers, mental images,
drawings and/or sounds
Decomposes numbers less than or equal to 10 into pairs in more than one way,
by using objects or drawings, and records each decomposition by a drawing or
equation
Works with numbers 11-19 for place value
Composes and decomposes numbers from 11-19 into ten ones and some further
ones, by using objects or drawings, and records each composition or
decomposition by a drawing or equation; understands that these numbers are
composed of ten ones and one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, or
nine ones
Measurement and Data
Describes and compares measureable attributes
Compares two objects to see which object has “more of”/“less of” the
attribute, and describes the difference
Classifies and counts objects in categories
Classifies objects into given categories; counts the numbers of objects in
each category and sorts the categories by count
Geometry
Identifies and describes shapes (square, circle, triangle, rectangle,
hexagon, cube, cone, cylinder, sphere)
Describes objects in the environment using names of shapes and describes the
relative positions of these objects (above, below, beside, in front of,
behind, and next to)
Correctly names shapes regardless of their orientations or overall size
Identifies shapes as two-dimensional (lying in a plane, “flat”) or three-
dimensional (“solid”)
Analyzes, compares, creates and composes shapes
Analyzes and compares two- and three-dimensional shapes, in different
sizes/orientations, using informal language to describe their similarities,
differences, parts
Models shapes in the world by building shapes from components and drawing
shapes
Composes simple shapes to form larger shapes
SCIENCE
Rocks and Soils
Describes physical attributes of rocks and soils
Uses senses to observe and group rocks by large/small, heavy/light,
smooth/rough, dark/light, etc.
Uses senses to observe soils such as smell, texture, color, particle/grain
size
Recognizes earth materials- soil, rocks, water, air, etc.
Day and Night
Describes time patterns and objects in the day and night sky
Describes changes that occur in the sky
Classifies objects according to those seen in the day/night sky
Recognizes that the Sun supplies heat and light to Earth
This guide outlines the standards being taught this quarter
