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== = Welcome to the PSD Kindergarten Common Core Curriculum Project =

Children enter kindergarten with a wide range of knowledge: some have learned to read simple books, while others have not yet learned the alphabet. Over the course of this year, all students begin to read, write, and advance their existing skills. The kindergarten curriculum map consists of a rich array of “read-aloud” stories, nonfiction, and poems, combined with phonics and writing, as well as listening and speaking activities. The units include a section devoted to the CCSS reading foundations. While not a comprehensive reading program, this pacing guide provides guidance for instruction in print concepts, phonological awareness, phonics, word recognition, fluency, and some of the writing and language skills. Students listen to a wide variety of literary and nonfictional texts: poems and informational text about counting; poems and songs with strong rhythm and rhyme; stories about exploring; books about American symbols and celebrations; and books about plants, insects, and frogs. They learn to retell and discuss what they have learned, putting events in order and explaining why they occurred. By the end of the year, students have learned to decode and encode one-syllable regular words and recognize high-frequency sight words. They have been exposed to historical and biographical nonfiction, as well as fiction, poetry, and fables. In the following year, they will continue to learn to read while building knowledge of an array of topics.

Reading Foundations Pacing Guides:
[|Reading Foundations and Activities (K: Units 1-3)] [|Reading Foundations and Activities (K: Units 4-6)]