The Kindergarten Curriculum Guide is designed to provide a view of the
developmental skills targeted for student achievement in Kindergarten. This
guide will serve as a tool to support your involvement in your child’s
educational achievement. Use it during your parent conference session(s) to
determine those areas of strength and/or weakness that you may assist your
child with at home during the school year. Parent involvement is a key
ingredient for student success in school.
BY THE END OF KINDERGARTEN, STUDENTS WHO ARE MAKING ADEQUATE PROGRESS IN
READING ARE ABLE TO:
• Retelling stories
• Identifying sequences in texts
• Making predictions
• Making connections with characters, setting and events
• Using pictures to solve unknown text
• Using meaning to solve unknown text
• Engaging in independent reading
• Answering simple questions in response to text
• Using self-correcting to check meaning
• Reading first name
• Reading last name
• Emerging as a reader
• Recognizing color words
• Recognizing number words
• Identifying familiar sight words
• Using resources such as picture dictionaries
• Using resources such as word walls
• Recognizing and naming all upper case letters
• Recognizing and naming all lower case letters
• Recognizing letter-sound correspondence
• Identifying rhyming words
• Isolating beginning sounds
• Isolating ending sounds
• Blending sounds to make words
• Recognizing the number of syllables in words
• Sounding out words
• Tracking print from left to right
• Distinguishing between print and pictures
• Identifying parts of a book
• Distinguishing between letters and words
BY THE END OF KINDERGARTEN, STUDENTS WHO ARE MAKING ADEQUATE PROGRESS IN
SPEAKING/LISTENING ARE ABLE TO:
• Using age appropriate vocabulary
• Responding respectfully when spoken to
• Speaking in complete sentences when required
• Staying on topic
• Taking turns when speaking in a group
• Establishing eye contact while speaking
• Speaking audibly
• Listening actively and responsively
• Listening to an activity to an extended period of time
• Listening without interrupting
• Responding appropriately to what is heard
BY THE END OF KINDERGARTEN, STUDENTS WHO ARE MAKING ADEQUATE PROGRESS IN
WRITING ARE ABLE TO:
• Printing first name correctly
• Printing last name correctly
• Spacing letters and words correctly
• Forming letters correctly
• Writing from left to right
• Writing multiple words or word parts to express a thought
• Using capitalization at the beginning of a sentence
• Using appropriate punctuation at the end of a sentence
• Writing letters to represent sounds in words
• Spelling frequently used words correctly
BY THE END OF KINDERGARTEN, STUDENTS WHO ARE MAKING ADEQUATE PROGRESS IN
MATHEMATICS ARE ABLE TO:
• Using manipulatives appropriately
• Solving problems with manipulatives
• Estimating with a variety of objects
• Drawing to model the action in problems
• Explaining to others how a problem is solved
• Recognizing and naming numerals 0-10
• Writing numerals 0-10
• Recognizing, extending and creating patterns
• Adding numbers up to ten
• Subtracting numerals up to 10
• Counting from 0 to 30
• Counting backwards from 10 to 0
• Sorting and classifying quantities
• Graphing
• Using and understanding ordinal numbers
• Building number sets
• Recognizing +, -, and = in mathematical equations
• Understanding and using ideas such as over, under, above, below, on,
beside, next to
• Sorting, classifying and comparing objects
• Identifying shapes
• Drawing basic shapes
• Recognizing specific times of the day
• Knowing days of the week in sequence
• Knowing months of the year in sequence
• Using quantitative words to describe objects
• Collecting and recording data
• Displaying data in pictographs and bar graphs
• Make predictions using information from the graph
• Interpret data using from information from the graph
BY THE END OF KINDERGARTEN, STUDENTS WHO ARE MAKING ADEQUATE PROGRESS IN
SOCIAL STUDIES ARE ABLE TO:
• Understanding concepts presented
• Understanding roles of self, family, school and community
• Understanding rules of school and community
BY THE END OF KINDERGARTEN, STUDENTS WHO ARE MAKING ADEQUATE PROGRESS IN
SCIENCE ARE ABLE TO:
• Working in a group
• Understanding concepts presented
• Making and describing observations
• Making predictions
• Using science tools or equipment
• Respecting living things