Literacy
You can view the kindergarten literacy curriculum by clicking here.
The curriculum is divided into three main areas of focus: comprehend and respond, compose and create, and assess and reflect.
These outcomes relate to reading, writing, speaking, listening, retelling, oral speaking, creating messages and expressing thinking in a variety of ways, and reflecting about their thinking process, understanding, and growth.
Within these broader areas, we focus on learning to recognize, read, print, and spell their first name, alphabet letter names and sounds, syllables, beginning/middle/end sounds in words, kindergarten high frequency words, rhymes, and beginning reading and writing concepts.
Our daily instruction consists of whole group, small group, and individual instruction. While we may do explicit lessons on a topic or skill, most lessons incorporate material from a variety of literacy areas. For example, when learning about rhymes, we may discuss beginning and ending sounds of words as well. Literacy is embedded in most of the activities we do at school such as songs, poems, stories, games, activities, class jobs, phys. ed., and body breaks.
Students who are displaying challenges in literacy may be provided with additional teacher support time, a variety of materials to utilize, and at-home recommendations.
The curriculum is divided into three main areas of focus: comprehend and respond, compose and create, and assess and reflect.
These outcomes relate to reading, writing, speaking, listening, retelling, oral speaking, creating messages and expressing thinking in a variety of ways, and reflecting about their thinking process, understanding, and growth.
Within these broader areas, we focus on learning to recognize, read, print, and spell their first name, alphabet letter names and sounds, syllables, beginning/middle/end sounds in words, kindergarten high frequency words, rhymes, and beginning reading and writing concepts.
Our daily instruction consists of whole group, small group, and individual instruction. While we may do explicit lessons on a topic or skill, most lessons incorporate material from a variety of literacy areas. For example, when learning about rhymes, we may discuss beginning and ending sounds of words as well. Literacy is embedded in most of the activities we do at school such as songs, poems, stories, games, activities, class jobs, phys. ed., and body breaks.
Students who are displaying challenges in literacy may be provided with additional teacher support time, a variety of materials to utilize, and at-home recommendations.
Currently in literacy, we've been working hard on mastering our alphabet letter names and sounds. We have officially go through each letter once in alphabetical order. When we explore each letter, we learn the name, the sound, words that start with that letter and how to print it, all at the same time. Many students will need multiple exposures to get a deep understanding of each letter. This should be the area of focus when doing work at home.
We've also been empowering students to see themselves as readers by exploring different ways to read a book. We've learned that there are 3 ways to read a book: 1. read the words (which is a little hard for us right now) 2. read the pictures (we're really good at this and have been practicing this - get your child to show you!) 3. retell a story that we've heard before (read lots at home and let your child re-read the books to themselves as they remember it) Many students are also still working on writing their name. Names need to have an uppercase letter at the beginning and lowercase letters throughout. Their letters need to be printed correctly and neatly. Students should also be able to say all the letters in their name without looking at them. |
Activity Ideas
Focus on a letter of the day - choose a letter - any letter -random order is best. When you choose your letter write it on multiple sticky notes or small pieces of paper and walk around the house finding items that start with that letter. When you find one, stick the paper with the letter printed on it to the item. When you're done finding all the items, you could count how many items you found to make a connection to math! Practice writing letters individually or your name - find fun things to write your name in - paint, sugar, shaving gel, etc. |