Growing readers and writers with help from Mother Goose

English Language Arts (2004)

Kindergarten

• Goal 1: The learner will develop and apply enabling strategies to read and write.
  • Objective 1.01: Develop book and print awareness:
    • identify the parts of books and function of each part.
    • demonstrate an understanding of directionality and voice-print match by following print word for word when listening to familiar text read aloud.
    • demonstrate an understanding of letters, words, and story.
    • identify the title, name of the author and the name of the illustrator.
  • Objective 1.02: Develop phonemic awareness and knowledge of alphabetic principle:
    • demonstrate understanding that spoken language is a sequence of identifiable speech sounds.
    • demonstrate understanding that the sequence of letters in the written word represents the sequence of sounds in the spoken word.
    • demonstrate understanding of the sounds of letters and understanding that words begin and end alike (onsets and rimes).
  • Objective 1.04: Read or begin to read.
    • Read or attempt to read own dictated story.
    • Attempt to read/reads simple patterned text, decodable text, and/or predictable texts using letter-sound knowledge and pictures to construct meaning.
• Goal 2: The learner will develop and apply strategies and skills to comprehend text that is read, heard, and viewed.
  • Objective 2.02: Demonstrate familiarity with a variety of types of books and selections (e.g., picture books, caption books, short informational texts, nursery rhymes, word plays/finger plays, puppet plays, reenactments of familiar stories).
• Goal 5: The learner will apply grammar and language conventions to communicate effectively.
  • Objective 5.01: Develop spelling strategies and skills by:
    • representing spoken language with temporary and/or conventional spelling.
    • writing most letters of the alphabet.
    • analyzing sounds in a word and writing dominant consonant letters.