Kindergarten English Language Arts
9 units matched to the Newfoundland and Labrador Curriculum. Kids see this subject as “Letters & Words”.
Learning focus
- Speaking and listening: explore and reflect. Students will speak and listen to explore, extend, clarify, and reflect on their thoughts, ideas, feelings, and experiences.
- Speaking and listening: communicate. Students will be able to communicate information and ideas effectively and clearly, and to respond personally and critically.
- Speaking and listening: interact with respect. Students will be able to interact with sensitivity and respect, considering the situation, audience, and purpose.
- Reading and viewing: select and read. Students will be able to select, read, and view with understanding a range of literature, information, media, and visual texts.
- Reading and viewing: interpret and combine information. Students will be able to interpret, select, and combine information using a variety of strategies, resources, and technologies.
- Reading and viewing: respond personally. Students will be able to respond personally to a range of texts.
- Reading and viewing: respond critically. Students will be able to respond critically to a range of texts, applying their understanding of language, form, and genre.
- Writing and representing: explore and reflect. Students will be able to use writing and other ways of representing to explore, clarify, and reflect on their thoughts, feelings, experiences, and learning; and to use their imagination.
- Writing and representing: create texts. Students will be able to create texts collaboratively and independently, using a variety of forms for a range of audiences and purposes.
- Writing and representing: strategies. Students will be able to use a range of strategies to develop effective writing and other ways of representing and to enhance their clarity, precision, and effectiveness.
Units
Unit 1
Letter Partners
Matching capital (big) letters with their lowercase (small) partners, including look-alikes such as b, d, p and q.
Curriculum outcome: Reading and viewing: select and read (by Grade 3) · naming upper- and lowercase letters
Unit 2
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.
Curriculum outcome: Reading and viewing: select and read (by Grade 3) · identifying first sounds and linking letters and sounds
Unit 3
Rhyme Time
Hearing rhymes (cat, hat) and spotting a word that doesn't rhyme. Rhyming games build the listening skills behind reading.
Curriculum outcome: Reading and viewing: select and read (by Grade 3) · recognizing rhyme
Unit 4
Clap the Beat
Breaking words into syllables (ba-na-na) by clapping. Clap along out loud: one clap for each part you hear.
Curriculum outcome: Reading and viewing: select and read (by Grade 3) · clapping the syllables in words
Unit 5
Sight Words
Recognizing common words such as the, see, can and my, plus colour and number words, by looking closely at their letters.
Curriculum outcome: Reading and viewing: select and read (by Grade 3) · reading familiar words
Unit 6
Story Order
Putting events in order, and listening to short stories to tell what happened at the beginning, middle and end.
Curriculum outcome: Reading and viewing: respond personally (by Grade 3) · retelling a story in order
Unit 7
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.
Curriculum outcome: Reading and viewing: select and read (by Grade 3) · the parts of a book, and how print and pictures carry meaning
Unit 8
Picture Clues
Using the picture and the first letter to read a word or a short sentence, a key early reading strategy.
Curriculum outcome: Reading and viewing: select and read (by Grade 3) · using pictures and first letters to work out a word
Unit 9
Blend a Word
Listening for the sounds in a word, blending them to read it, and counting the sounds in words.
Curriculum outcome: Reading and viewing: select and read (by Grade 3) · using letters and sounds to read simple words
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