Kindergarten English Language Arts
7 units matched to the Saskatchewan Curriculum. Kids see this subject as “Letters & Words”.
Strands and outcomes
- Comprehend and Respond (CRK.1–CRK.4): Comprehend and respond to a variety of visual, oral, print, and multimedia texts that address identity… View and interpret the basic message of visuals and objects in a variety of texts including models, photographs… Listen, comprehend, and respond to gain meaning in oral texts. (and 1 more outcome)
- Compose and Create (CCK.1–CCK.4): Compose and create various visual, multimedia, oral, and written texts that explore and present thoughts, ideas… Use and construct symbols, pictures, and dramatizations to communicate feelings and ideas in a variety of ways. Use oral language to converse, engage in play, express ideas, and share personal experiences. (and 1 more outcome)
- Assess and Reflect on Language Abilities (ARK.1–ARK.2): Reflect on viewing, listening, emerging "reading", representing, speaking, and emerging "writing" experiences in… Reflect and talk about new learning.
Units
Unit 1
Letter Partners
Matching capital (big) letters with their lowercase (small) partners, including look-alikes such as b, d, p and q.
Outcome: CCK.4 · letters and symbols used to create messages
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.
Outcome: CRK.3 · listening for the sounds at the start of words
Unit 3
Rhyme Time
Hearing rhymes (cat, hat) and spotting a word that doesn't rhyme. Rhyming games build the listening skills behind reading.
Outcome: CRK.3, CRK.4 · listening for rhymes and word sounds in songs, poems and stories
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.
Outcome: CRK.3 · listening for the parts (syllables) in spoken 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.
Outcome: CRK.1, CCK.4 · everyday words seen in print and used in messages
Unit 6
Story Order
Putting events in order, and listening to short stories to tell what happened at the beginning, middle and end.
Outcome: CRK.4 · retelling the basic ideas and order of events in a story
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.
Outcome: CRK.1, CRK.4 · how books work and what stories and informational texts say
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