KINDERGARTEN ELA INSTRUCTIONAL FOCUS
The following grade-level resource page is designed to follow the GCR2 ELA Resource Graphic.
- Priority & Supporting Standards - Tells us what essential knowledge, skills and strategies must be acquired at each grade- PS helps teachers prioritize.
- Literacy Blueprint - Describes a Balanced Literacy Model for designing your block of ELA instruction and explains the district philosophy.
- ELA Modules - Clusters the standards in a way that makes sense across the year.
- Mentor Texts and Close Reading Passages - Supports all teachers in designing ELA lessons using identified high quality texts aligned to MLS and our students needs.
- Module Lesson Maps - Provides teachers with a sequenced description of lessons aligned to our modules, using our Mentor Texts, and suggesting standards and ideas for instruction.
- Assessments - Provides us with information as to whether our students are acquiring the knowledge skills and strategies we are teaching and informs our instructional decisions.
- Standards-Based Education - Individual standards (highlights denote power standards) with rubrics and KUDs (Documents that describe what students need to know, understand, and be able to do to meet each standard.
PRIORITY & SUPPORT STANDARDS
The following resources have been developed and/or gathered to support kindergarten teachers as they implement the Missouri Learning Standards in 2018-2019. Just click on the links below to access these documents.
- Kindergarten ELA Standards Priority and Supporting (Short Version)
- KIndergarten ELA Standards Priority and Supporting (Long Version)
- ELA Module Map Introduction
- Graphic ELA MLS modules
- Kindergarten Missouri Learning Standards Crosswalk
Kindergarten "I Can" Statements were designed for teachers to post daily classroom objectives one at a time and standards that are spread out over a number of pages. Standards flow one to the next. Some teachers have chosen to make them into posters and highlight the day’s learning target with a clothespin or large arrow cut-out. Another idea to help with the organization of all of these posters is to put them on a binder ring so that they can easily be flipped through and displayed each day.
- Individual “I Can” Statement Posters
- Power Standard “I Can” Statements Page
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Speaking/Listening
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LITERACY BLUEPRINT
The following document was designed for classroom teachers, instructional coaches, and school administrators to provide a vision and structure for literacy instruction.
- Guiding Principles
- Creating a Supportive Literacy Environment
- Common Core and The Blueprint
- Elements of a Balanced Literacy Program
- Elements Described in Detail
- Assessments- District and Formative Assessment Practices
- Supporting Specific Groups of Learners: EL/ELL/SPED/Title 1 & SEEK
- Implementation Guide
- Frequently Asked Questions
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Grade Level Word Study Chart
ELA MODULES
Each grade level has a proposed curriculum map of the ELA standards divided into 4 Modules (or chunks) of instruction spanning the school year. These modules are detailed below.
MENTOR TEXTS AND CLOSE READING PASSAGES
Mentor Texts and Toolkit for 2015-2016
The “Toolkit” that follows is a collection of resources filtered from various web sites. Word documents were maintained whenever possible. While these do not directly relate to our Mentor Texts and Close Reading passages they are strong examples for you to use or modify with your grade level text selections in order to support CCSS and the inherent rigor.
- Graphic Organizers
- Tools
- Rubrics
MODULE LESSON MAPS
The following modules were created as sample curriculum maps at each grade level. The modules include all the English Language Arts Common Core standards. Our goal was to show how the priority and supporting standards from all ELA areas (reading, writing, listening/speaking, language and the foundational skills at Elementary) can be spread throughout the year but grouped in a logical fashion. Although there are “focus” standards for each module they are designed to build upon the previous one(s) so that by the end of the year all standards have been addressed and the priority standards assessed in appropriate levels of text. Focus standards may be introduced in a module however the teacher will make the decision as to when students will be assessed. Students continue to have multiple opportunities to show they have met the standards throughout the year in various venues including whole group, small group, or individually.
Each module is designed to last approximately 8 weeks and might include 1-3 smaller units. You’ll notice that the module designers chose some standards that they felt should be addressed in all modules. These standards are contained within the section titled “Yearlong Skill Development.” While Section 1 of the map could be used with any rich content, Section 2 was created as an example as to how a teacher or team might take the curriculum map and integrate the ELA standards with specific content such as a social studies or science unit, or even a literature study. We invite you to use this template “as is” or as a springboard for your own curriculum map or module creation.
Each module is designed to last approximately 8 weeks and might include 1-3 smaller units. You’ll notice that the module designers chose some standards that they felt should be addressed in all modules. These standards are contained within the section titled “Yearlong Skill Development.” While Section 1 of the map could be used with any rich content, Section 2 was created as an example as to how a teacher or team might take the curriculum map and integrate the ELA standards with specific content such as a social studies or science unit, or even a literature study. We invite you to use this template “as is” or as a springboard for your own curriculum map or module creation.
Modules
Module 1: Close Reading and Writing to learn/ Launching Readers and Writers Workshop
This module introduces the notion that reading and writing are interconnected and essential for communication. Module 2: Developing critical readers, writers, and thinkers of narrative text
In module 2 Kindergartners immerse themselves in the world of stories, building on the close reading strategies introduced in Module 1. We’ll revisit favorites introduced in Module 1 as well as introduce new, more complex text to support retelling narratives with key details. Module 3: Learning Through Research
Module 3 will most likely be started at the midway point of the school year. Although some students may not have been able to read independently or write conventionally prior to this, second semester typically represents a major growth period in Kindergarteners’ literacy development. It will therefore be important to continually refer to the anchor charts that have been created during Modules 1 and 2 as we nudge students toward increasing levels of independence and application. Module 4: Forming Positions
In this final module, we conclude the year the way we began, focusing on both narrative and information texts. There is always a range of abilities in our classrooms but many students will be reading emergent-reader texts in small groups and independently with purpose and understanding. |
Units of Study
Launching Unit - Reading:
Apples; But Excuse Me That Is My Book; Every Day’s A Dog day: A year in Poems; How Rocket Learned to Read; We`re Going on a Book Hunt; Wild About Books
Launching Unit - Writing:
Art Lesson, The; Library Mouse; Taking a Bath with the Dog; This Quiet Lady; To Be a Kid
(Fiction) Reading Unit:
Balloon for Isabel, A; “Could Be Worse!”; Goldilocks and the Three Bears; I Broke My Trunk!; Three Billy Goats Gruff, The; Wave
(Narrative) Writing Unit:
Chalk Doll; Dream Weaver; Hello Ocean; I Know a Lady; Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale; Let`s Go Home: The Wonderful Things About a House; Moon Was the Best, The; Roller Coaster; Snow; Watch Out for the Chicken Feet in Your Soup
Non-Fiction (Informational) Reading Unit:
Healthy Habits; How Bees Make Honey; I See a Kookaburra!: Discovering Animal Habitats Around the; My First Biography:
Christopher Columbus; Soccer; What We Wear: Dressing Up Around the World
Non-Fiction How-To (Informational) Writing Unit:
All You Need for A Snowman; Building a House; Growing Vegetable Soup; How To Be; How to Lose All Your Friends; I Can Draw People; If You Decide to go to the Moon; Pizza That We Made, The; Road Builders; Walk On
Poetry Reading Unit:
Dirt on My Shirt; Slected Poems; Name That Dog! Puppy Names From A to Z; Read-Aloud Rhymes for the Very Young; Shout! Little Poems that Roar; Stick Is an Excellent Thing: Poems Celebrating Outdoor Play, A; Switching on the Moon: A Very First Book of Bedtime Poems
FUNctional (opinion) Writing Unit:
Bunny Cakes; Click, Clack, Moo! Cows That Type; Dear Bear; Dear Juno; Fancy Nancy; I Wanna Iguana; Jolly Postman; My New York: New Anniversary Edition; We Are Best Friends; With Love Little Red Hen
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STANDARDS-BASED EDUCATION
Individual standards (highlights denote power standards) with rubrics and KUDs (Documents that describe what students need to know, understand, and be able to do to meet each standard.)
Reading Literature (RL)
K.RL.1
K.RL.8
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(Not Applicable for Literature)
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Reading Informational Text (RI)
Reading Informational Text Standard
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Writing (W)
Writing Standard
K.W.4
K.W.9 (Begins in 4th Grade)
K.W.10 (Begins in 3rd Grade)
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Student Friendly Language
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K.W.7 "I Can Statement"
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Speaking & Listening (SL)
Speaking & Listening Standard
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Student Friendly Language
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Language (L)
Language Standard
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Student Friendly Language
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Reading Foundations (RF)
Reading Foundation Standard
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Student Friendly Language
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Power Standard (PS) Rubric
(Coming in Summer 2015)
(Coming in Summer 2015)
(Coming in Summer 2015)
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