ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS - Grade KG

Duration

10 Months

Prerequisites

None

Requirements

Students will need the following materials: cell phone or scanner, headset or earbuds, coloring materials (markers, crayons, colored pencils), glue or tape, pen or pencil, printer, printer paper, scissors, stapler, lined paper, notebook or binder to organize course resources and work, household objects for activities.


Course Summary

In Kindergarten Language Arts, students join Penelope, the Pirate, to learn letters, sounds, and word formation. They explore the alphabet, play games, draw, write, read storybooks, and record themselves sounding out words, discovering a world of letters and sounds.

MAJOR TOPICS AND CONCEPTS

  • Concepts of print
  • Syllables
  • Rhyming words
  • Onset and rime
  • Beginning, middle, and ending sounds
  • Letters and sounds
  • CVC words
  • Sight words
  • Story elements: character, setting, and events
  • Author and illustrator
  • Main topic and key details
  • Fact and opinion
  • Compare and contrast
  • Present information orally
  • Printing letters
  • Opinion writing
  • Expository writing
  • Narrative writing
  • Grammar, punctuation, capitalization, grade-level spelling
  • Ask and answer questions about a text
  • Multimedia element
  • Vocabulary
  • Unknown words
  • Sorting into categories
  • Add, delete, and substitute phonemes
  • Segment and blend phonemes
  • Letters and sounds
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