Kindergarten Curriculum at a Glance
Reading Fiction and Nonfiction
- Answers questions about text
- Recognizes the purpose of an author and illustrator
- Retells stories including details and major events
- Retells important details from nonfiction text
- Sequences major events in text (beginning, middle, end)
Foundations of Reading
- Understands the basic features of print (left-to-right tracking, parts of a book, etc.)
- Recognizes rhyming words
- Recognizes and names uppercase and lowercase letters taught to date
- Produces the sounds of consonants taught to date
- Reads high-frequency words taught to date
- Produces rhyming words
- Produces the sounds of vowels taught to date
- Begins to blend individual sounds to make words
Writing/Language
- Uses letters, pictures and symbols to write for different purposes
- Prints uppercase letters and lowercase letters taught to date
- Writes left-to-right and top-to-bottom
- Listens for sounds in words and writes letters that match (inventive spelling)
- Recognizes and names ending punctuation marks
Speaking and Listening
- Participates appropriately in discussions within a group
- Expresses complete thoughts, feelings, and ideas clearly
Motor Development
- Cuts accurately with scissors
- Uses proper grip with writing tools
Math
- Counts objects in a set 0-10 (one to one correspondence)
- Recognizes the quantity of a group of objects by sight 0-10
- Compares sets of objects to tell more, less, or equal quantities
- Counts to 50 by ones
- Counts to 100 by ones
- Counts to 100 by tens
- Reads, writes, and represents numbers 0-20
- Understands ordinal numbers (1st-10th)
- Demonstrates addition up to 10
- Demonstrates subtraction up to 10
- Identifies penny, nickel, dime, and quarter by name
- Sorts objects by color, size, and shape
- Recognizes, completes and extends pattern in multiple ways
- Recognizes and names 2D shapes: square, circle, triangle, rectangle
- Compares and contrasts two objects (i.e., length, height, sides)
- Tells time to the hour (analog and digital)
- Creates and explains a simple graph
Social Studies
- Recognizes the importance of citizenship
- Understands patriotic symbols and activities
- Shows adequate understanding of community workers
- Understands the relationship between work and earning money
- Understands that a map and a globe help us locate places such as the United States and Oklahoma
- Describes family customs and traditions as basic elements of culture (past and present)
Science
- Participates in simple experiments to discover information
- Uses observations to describe what plants and animals need to survive
- Uses and shares observations about local weather conditions to discover patterns over time (seasons)
- Participates in science discussions and activities
Personal Awareness
- Recognizes and properly writes first and last name
- Knows age
- Knows birthday (month and day)
- Knows phone number