Kindergarten

Trimester 2 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

Retell fiction text describing characters, setting, and major events in a story through text read aloud or shared reading. (RL. K.2 & SL K.2 & K.4)

Compare and contrast the experiences of characters in stories referring explicitly to the text. (RL K.9)

Year Long Standards

• Describe people, places, things, and events with details.
• Ask and answer questions before, during, and after reading a text.
• Name characters, setting, and events of a story.
• Retell stories using key details.
• Retell the key ideas of a nonfiction text.
• Find, ask, and answer questions and meanings of words not known.

Tri 2 Standards 

With prompting and support…

• Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
• Identify the main topic and retell key details of a text.
• Identify the points an author makes in a text read aloud (e.g., Everyone should recycle).
• Identify the reasons an author gives to support points in a text.
• Ask and answer questions about key details of information presented in multiple ways.
• Identify basic similarities and differences between two texts on the same topics (e.g., illustrations, descriptions, procedures).

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.

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 2 Standards

• Describe people, places, things, and events.
• Ask and answer questions about key details of information presented in multiple ways.
• Add drawings or other visual displays to description as desired to provide additional detail. 

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.

Use combinations of drawings, dictating and writing to create explanatory texts about authentic topics with a clear topic and related descriptive information.

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 2 Standards

• Use drawings and words to name and give information about a topic.
• Retell something that happened with details.
• Retell something that happened first, next, and last with details.
• Spell simple words phonetically, drawing on knowledge of sound-letter relationships.
• Use new words and phrases when speaking and writing.
• Capitalize the first word in a sentence and the pronoun I. 
• Recognize and name end punctuation.

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 2 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.
• Read emergent-reader texts with purpose and understanding.
• Recognize that spoken words are represented in written language by specific sequences of letters.
• Recognize and produce rhyming words. 
• Count, pronounce, blend, and segment syllables in spoken words.
• Isolate and pronounce the initial, medial vowel, and final sounds (phonemes) in three-phoneme (consonant-vowel-consonant, or CVC) words.
• Add or substitute individual sounds (phonemes) in simple, one-syllable words to make new words 
• Blend and segment onsets and rimes of single-syllable spoken words.
• Add or substitute individual sounds (phonemes) in simple, one-syllable words to make new words. 

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 2 Standards

RF.K1. 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.K2. Demuestran comprensión de las palabras habladas, las sílabas y los sonidos (fonemas).

• Reconocen y producen palabras que riman. 

• Cuentan, pronuncian, combinan y segmentan en sílabas las palabras habladas.

• Combinan y segmentan los sonidos (fonemas) consonánticos y vocálicos de una sílaba. 
• Separan y pronuncian los sonidos iniciales, medios y finales (fonemas) en palabras monosilábicas de tres fonemas* (consonante-vocal-consonante, o CVC). Incluyen palabras que terminan con /l/ y /r/ (ejemplo: sal, sol, mar, por).
• Añaden o sustituyen sonidos individuales (fonemas) en palabras simples de una sílabas para formar nuevas palabras de una o dos sílabas. (ejemplo: sal-sol; por-par; tan-pan; sal-sala; par-para; mal-malo). 
• Combinan dos sílabas para formar palabras bisílabas que les son familiares: ma + no = mano; ma + ma = mamá; ma + pa = mapa; sa + po = sapo; so + pa = sopa.
• Separan y cuentan oralmente las sílabas de una palabra. 
• En palabras multisilábicas señalan la sílaba sobre la cual recae el énfasis de la voz (acento tónico).

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

• Asocian los sonidos (fonemas) con la ortografía común (grafemas) para las cinco vocales incluyendo el uso de la ye (y) como equivalente de la vocal i.* Throughout
• Leen a simple vista palabras comunes de uso frecuente (ejemplo: el, la, veo, un, una, mi, es).  
• Reconocen las dos sílabas CV que forman palabras de alta frecuencia en el lenguaje cotidiano; ma-má; pa-pá; ca-sa; si-lla; me-sa; ca-ma; ga-to.

RF.K4. Leen textos para lectores principiantes, con propósito y comprensión.

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

• Read emergent-reader texts with purpose and understanding.
• Recognize and name all of the capital letters and lowercase letters in the alphabet.
• Read emergent-reader texts with purpose and understanding.

Tri 2 Standards

• Read emergent-reader texts with purpose and understanding.
• Recognize and name all of the capital letters and lowercase letters in the alphabet
• Identify the beginning sound of words (Hear and say the same beginning sounds in a word: eg; bed, bat , baby have the same beginning sound.)
• Count pronounce syllables in spoken words.