📚 Kindergarten English Language Arts

Units

1. Unit 1

   🔤Letter Partners

   Matching capital (big) letters with their lowercase (small) partners, including look-alikes such as b, d, p and q.

   TEKS student expectation: K.2(D) · knowing the uppercase and lowercase letters

2. 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.

   TEKS student expectation: K.2(A); K.2(B) · hearing first sounds and matching them to letters

3. Unit 3

   🎵Rhyme Time

   Hearing rhymes (cat, hat) and spotting a word that doesn't rhyme. Rhyming games build the listening skills behind reading.

   TEKS student expectation: K.2(A) · hearing and making rhymes

4. 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.

   TEKS student expectation: K.2(A) · counting the syllables in spoken words

5. Unit 5

   👀Sight Words

   Recognizing common words such as the, see, can and my, plus color and number words, by looking closely at their letters.

   TEKS student expectation: K.2(B) · reading common high-frequency words

6. Unit 6

   📖Story Order

   Putting events in order, and listening to short stories to tell what happened at the beginning, middle and end.

   TEKS student expectation: K.6(D); K.7(C) · retelling the beginning, middle and end of a story

7. 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.

   TEKS student expectation: K.2(D) · the parts of a book, reading left to right, and letters and words

8. Unit 8

   🖼️Picture Clues

   Using the picture and the first letter to read a word or a short sentence, a key early reading strategy.

   TEKS student expectation: K.3(B); K.9(C) · using pictures to work out words and sentences

9. Unit 9

   🔤Blend a Word

   Listening for the sounds in a word, blending them to read it, and counting the sounds in words.

   TEKS student expectation: K.2(A); K.2(B) · blending sounds into simple words

10. Unit 10

    🗣️Talk & Listen

    Chat about the day, ask your child to answer in a whole sentence, and let them ask you questions. Poems and rhymes are great practice too.

    TEKS student expectation: K.1(C); K.1(D) · taking turns in conversations and speaking clearly

11. Unit 11

    🧩Word Parts & Meanings

    Practices how a small word part changes a word (-s for more than one, -ing for happening now, un- for not), grouping words by topic, opposites and same-meaning words, and naming picture parts with labels.

    TEKS student expectation: K.3(C) · words for actions, opposites, days and places

12. Unit 12

    🔎Ask and Find Out

    Children practice asking who, what, where, when and why questions and choosing where to look for answers: a book, a grown-up, a picture or a simple test. This is the research and inquiry part of the standards.

    TEKS student expectation: K.12(A); K.12(C) · asking questions and finding answers in books, pictures and from people

13. Unit 13

    🔤Change a Letter

    Your child changes, adds or takes away one letter (it, pit, tip) to make new words and picks how short words are spelled.

    TEKS student expectation: K.2(B); K.2(C) · making new words by changing a letter, and spelling short words

14. Unit 14

    🏰Story Friends

    Your child names characters and settings and recognizes fairy tales, fables and nursery rhymes they may know from read-alouds.

    TEKS student expectation: K.7(B); K.7(D); K.8(A); K.8(B) · characters, settings, fairy tales, fables and nursery rhymes