Kindergarten

Trimester 1 Standards

 Reading Literature and Informational Text

CCSD 21 offers programs that provide instruction in English, Spanish & Russian.  These standards apply to all languages of instruction.

PowerStandards

Demonstrate an understanding of print concepts, phonological awareness, and word analysis and decoding skills in order to read appropriate texts with purpose and understanding. (RF K.1, K.2, K.3, & K.4)

Year Long Standards

• Recognize and name all of the capital letters and lowercase letters in the alphabet.
• Read common high-frequency words by sight.
• Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.
• Read emergent-reader texts with purpose and understanding.

Tri 1 Standards

• Recognize and name all upper- and lowercase letters of the alphabet.
• Read common high-frequency words by sight
• Concept of Print – Read words left to right, top to bottom, and page-by-page.
• Understand that words are separated by spaces in print.
• Recognize that spoken words are represented in written language by specific sequences of letters.
• Demonstrate basic knowledge of one-to-one letter-sound correspondences by producing the primary sound or many of the most frequent sounds for each consonant.
• Associate the long and short sounds with the common spellings (graphemes) for the five major vowels.

Speaking and Listening

CCSD 21 offers programs that provide instruction in English, Spanish & Russian.  These standards apply to all languages of instruction.

PowerStandards

Build on others’ talk in academic conversations by linking comments and questions to the key points and evidence provided by others.

Describe people, places, things, and events with relevant details, expressing ideas and feelings clearly.

Year Long Standards

• Following speaking and listening rules when in a discussion (face the speaker, sit still, make eye contact).
• Link to the comments of others and share one’s own ideas.
• Ask questions about information that is not clear.

Tri 1 Standards

• Listen to the comments of others and share one’s own ideas.
• Speak audibly and express thoughts, ideas and feelings clearly.
• Identify people, places, things, and events.
• Draw one’s ideas, thoughts, or feelings.

Writing

CCSD 21 offers programs that provide instruction in English, Spanish & Russian.  These standards apply to all languages of instruction.

PowerStandards

Use combinations of drawings, dictating, and writing to narrate a single event or several loosely linked events, tell about the events in the order in which they occurred, and provide a reaction to what happened

Year Long Standards

• Write routinely over extended time frames and shorter time frames for a range of discipline-specific tasks, purposes, and audiences.
• Answer questions about one’s writing.
• Listen to ideas the teachers and peers have about one’s writing.
• Work with the teacher and others to learn about digital tools to produce and publish writing.
• Consult picture dictionaries or word banks to find the meaning of words.
• Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking. (See each trimester for specific Standards).

Tri 1 Standards

• Use drawings and words to name and give information about a topic.
• Retell something that happened first, next, and last with details.
• Discover new words and phrases through reading, listening, and conversation.
• Use new words and phrases when speaking and writing.

English Reading Foundations

PowerStandards

Demonstrate an understanding of print concepts, phonological awareness, and word analysis and decoding skills in order to read appropriate texts with purpose and understanding. (RF K.1, K.2, K.3, & K.4)

Year Long Standards

• Recognize and name all of the capital letters and lowercase letters in the alphabet.
• Read common high-frequency words by sight.
• Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.
• Read emergent-reader texts with purpose and understanding.

Tri 1 Standards

• Recognize and name all upper- and lowercase letters of the alphabet.
• Read common high-frequency words by sight
• Concept of Print – Read words left to right, top to bottom, and page-by-page.
• Understand that words are separated by spaces in print.
• Recognize that spoken words are represented in written language by specific sequences of letters.
• Demonstrate basic knowledge of one-to-one letter-sound correspondences by producing the primary sound or many of the most frequent sounds for each consonant.
• Associate the long and short sounds with the common spellings (graphemes) for the five major vowels.

spanish Reading Foundations

PowerStandards

Demonstrate an understanding of print concepts, phonological awareness, and word analysis and decoding skills in order to read appropriate texts with purpose and understanding. (RF K.1, K.2, K.3, & K.4)

Year Long Standards

• RF. K 1 Demuestran comprensión de la organización y características básicas de los materiales impresos.
• RF.K.4. Leen textos para lectores principiantes, con propósito y comprensión.

Tri 1 Standards

K.1. Demuestran comprensión de la organización y características básicas de los materiales impresos.

• Siguen las palabras de izquierda a derecha, de arriba hacia abajo y página por página.
• Reconocen que el lenguaje oral (palabras habladas) se representa en el lenguaje escrito mediante secuencias específicas de letras. 
• Entienden que las palabras se separan por espacios en blanco en los materiales impresos. 
• Reconocen y nombran todas las letras mayúsculas y minúsculas del alfabeto.
• Reconocen que el acento escrito (acento ortográfico) es una marca, que se llama tilde, colocada sobre una vocal.

RF.K.3. Conocen y aplican la fonética y las destrezas de análisis de palabras a nivel de grado, en la decodificación de palabras.

• Demuestran el conocimiento básico de la correspondencia entre letra y sonido (de una en una) al producir el sonido principal o los sonidos más frecuentes que representa cada consonante.
• Identifican las letras que representan a las vocales (Aa, Ee, Ii, Oo, Uu, incluyendo el uso de la ye (y) como equivalente a la (i).

Russian Reading Foundations

PowerStandards

Demonstrate an understanding of print concepts, phonological awareness, and word analysis and decoding skills in order to read appropriate texts with purpose and understanding. (RF K.1, K.2, K.3, & K.4)

Year Long Standards

• Recognize and name all of the capital letters and lowercase letters in the alphabet
• Recognize that words are separated by spaces before and after them Read sight words without having to sound them out.
• Concept of Print – Read words left to right, top to bottom, and page-by-page.
• Read emergent-reader texts with purpose and understanding.

Tri 1 Standards

• Recognize and name all of the capital letters and lowercase letters in the alphabet
• Recognize that letters are put together in a specific order to make words, and words make sentences 
• Recognize that words are separated by spaces before and after them Read sight words without having to sound them out.
• Concept of Print – Read words left to right, top to bottom, and page-by-page.
• Recognize initial sounds.