Kindergarten English Language Arts
9 units matched to the New Brunswick Curriculum. Kids see this subject as “Letters & Words”.
Learning focus
- Interactions: Expression. Express feelings and opinions, and give simple descriptions of experiences.
- Interactions: Exchanges. Begin to ask and respond to questions.
- Interactions: Reception. Receive the ideas and opinions of others.
- Reading: Concepts of Print. Identify concepts of print.
- Reading: Phonological Awareness. Demonstrate an awareness of words and some sounds in spoken language.
- Reading: Phonics. Apply letter-sound knowledge to decode words and simple connected text.
- Reading: Fluency. Name letters and read some words with accuracy and expression.
- Reading: Vocabulary. Use a range of vocabulary when communicating.
- Reading: Reading Comprehension. Construct meaning from oral stories and when being read to.
- Reading: Text Analysis. Select and engage with a variety of text forms for specific uses.
- Representations: Print Mechanics. Print or represent letters and words using a writing utensil or assistive technology.
- Representations: Spelling. Apply basic spelling conventions when creating written works.
- Representations: Sentence Structure. Compose simple sentences.
- Representations: Composition. Organize ideas and create written or media texts.
- Representations: Text Analysis. Begin to seek information to support ideas and construct meaning.
Units
Unit 1
Book Detectives
How print works: telling letters, numbers, words and sentences apart, reading left to right and top to bottom, counting words, and what authors and illustrators do.
Skill descriptor: Reading: Concepts of Print · the parts of a book, and how print and pictures carry meaning
Unit 2
Letter Partners
Matching capital (big) letters with their lowercase (small) partners, including look-alikes such as b, d, p and q.
Skill descriptor: Reading: Fluency · naming upper- and lowercase letters
Unit 3
First Sounds
Hearing the first sound in a word (b in bus) and linking it to its letter. Say the words out loud together and stretch out the first sound.
Skill descriptor: Reading: Phonological Awareness · identifying first sounds and linking letters and sounds
Unit 4
Rhyme Time
Hearing rhymes (cat, hat) and spotting a word that doesn't rhyme. Rhyming games build the listening skills behind reading.
Skill descriptor: Reading: Phonological Awareness · recognizing rhyme
Unit 5
Clap the Beat
Breaking words into syllables (ba-na-na) by clapping. Clap along out loud: one clap for each part you hear.
Skill descriptor: Reading: Phonological Awareness · clapping the syllables in words
Unit 6
Blend a Word
Listening for the sounds in a word, blending them to read it, and counting the sounds in words.
Skill descriptor: Reading: Phonics · using letters and sounds to read simple words
Unit 7
Sight Words
Recognizing common words such as the, see, can and my, plus colour and number words, by looking closely at their letters.
Skill descriptor: Reading: Fluency · reading familiar words
Unit 8
Picture Clues
Using the picture and the first letter to read a word or a short sentence, a key early reading strategy.
Skill descriptor: Reading: Phonics · using pictures and first letters to work out a word
Unit 9
Story Order
Putting events in order, and listening to short stories to tell what happened at the beginning, middle and end.
Skill descriptor: Reading: Reading Comprehension · retelling a story in order
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