Blaine School District Curriculum Map      Draft

Kindergarten Reading                     

Date: Fall 2008

 

 

 

ESSENTIAL QUESTION (optional)

CONTENT

SKILLS

ASSESSMENT

RESOURCE

August

 

 

 

 One hour visit assessment

 

September

 

1.1.1           Concepts of print

1.1.3           Oral language skills

3.2.1           Labels, environmental print

1.1.4           Phonics

 

(continue all year)

·          Directionality

·          Parts of a book

·          Participates in stories

·          Environmental print, including own name

·          Recognizes letters, sounds and spaces between words

100 pt  K Assessment

Readwell

Fluency

Zoo-phonics

Fountas & Pinnell

Shared Reading Big Books

October

 

1.1.2           Phonological and phonemic awareness

1.1.3           Oral language skills

1.1.4           Phonics

 

(continue all year)

·          Rhyming

·          Letters of the alphabet

·          Letters, sounds, and spaces between words

Teacher observation

In class assessments

 Zoo-phonics

Fountas & Pinnell

Shared Reading Big Books

November

 

 

1.4.1             Sight words

2.1                  Reading comprehension

 

(continue all year)

·          Letters, sounds, rhyming

·          Reads selected sight words in isolation/lists

·          Prior knowledge, imagery, questioning

Teacher observation

In class assessments

Rigby assessment

Zoo-phonics

Fountas & Pinnell

Shared Reading Big Books

December

 

 

2.4          Critical thinking

3.4          Variety of genres

   

(continue all year)     

·          Letters, sounds, phonemic awareness

·          Personal response to story

·          Purposes of simple text

·          Listens to variety of literature

 Dibels

Teacher observation

In class assessments

Zoo-phonics

Fountas & Pinnell

Shared Reading Big Books 

January

 

1,1,4    Phonics

1.2.2           Vocabulary strategies

1.4.1            Sight words

 

(continue all year)

·          Uses phonics to read unfamiliar words

·          Uses prior knowledge, pictures, and letters to predict and confirm word meaning

·          Recognizes sight words in text

Teacher observation

In class assessments

Zoo-phonics

Fountas & Pinnell

Shared Reading Big Books

 

Rigby Literacy Leveled Texts

February

 

1.1.2           Phonemic awareness

                      (continue all year)

 

 

2.2.2           Features of text

4.2                 Develop interests

 

 

·          Onset, rime

·          Word families-substitute one phoneme for another to make a new word

·          Identifies page numbers

·          Chooses books and shares with others

Readwell

Fluency

Rigby Assessment

Zoo-phonics

Fountas & Pinnell

Shared Reading Big Books

 

Rigby Literacy Leveled Texts

March

 

1,1,2, 1.1.4 Phonemes, Phonics

                       (continue all year)

1.3.1, 1.3.2   Vocabulary

 

·          Decodes 3, 4 letter words

·          Uses expanding vocabulary

·          Explores resources to get new information

 Teacher observation

In class assessments

Zoo-phonics

Fountas & Pinnell

Shared Reading Big Books

 

Rigby Literacy Leveled Texts

April

 

2.2.1, 2.2.3      Text components

 

 

 

(continue all year)

·          Retelling and story elements

  Teacher observation

In class assessments

Fountas & Pinnell

Shared Reading Big Books

 

Rigby Literacy Leveled Texts

May

 

2.3                Comprehension

 

·          Expands comprehension skills- categorizing, comparing stories

DRA

Readwell

Fluency

Teacher observation

In class assessments

Fountas & Pinnell

Shared Reading Big Books

 

Rigby Literacy Leveled Texts

June

 

Teacher re-teaches, reviews concepts as needed for individuals and the class

Teacher re-teaches, reviews concepts as needed for individuals and the class

 Teacher observation

In class assessments

Fountas & Pinnell

Shared Reading Big Books

 

Rigby Literacy Leveled Texts