Kindergarten

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Reading & Writing Standards

Summarized from Reading & Writing Grade by Grade: Primary Literacy Standards for Kindergarten through Third Grade. NCEE. 1999.

Reading Standard 1: Print-Sound Code

• At the end of kindergarten, students should be able to recognize and name the letters along with the common sounds. They should be able to decipher these sounds in order to write phonetically and distinguish rhyming sounds and words. They should strive for a learning target of about 20 high-frequency words in reading on their own.

Reading Standard 2: Getting the Meaning

• At the end of kindergarten, students should understand that words have specific meanings, showing this by either rereading a favorite story with intonation, phrasing, and self-correction when necessary, or reading a level B book that they have not previously read. When students are listening to a story, they should be able to ask questions relating to the story, retell the story, make predictions, or produce a response to the literature, showing comprehension.

Reading Standard 3: Reading Habits

• In helping kindergarteners develop the joy of reading, they should read, or be read to and discuss books every day from a variety of genres. They should be able to give a reaction to a book and talk about new words encountered. They also should learn how to correctly hold and treat a book and be able to follow along visually with the text.

Writing Standard 1: Habits and Processes

• Kindergarteners should write every day from topics of their choosing and incorporating other communication tools such as drawings, gestures, and verbal intonations. They should work with partners to explain their writing and generate other ideas.

Writing Standard 2: Writing Purposes and Resulting Genres

• Kindergarteners produce four types of writing: narrative, informational or report, functional, and a response to literature. In narrative writing, students share events or tell a story. With informational or report writing, students should be able to stay on topic in sharing of information they have gathered. Functional writing includes giving directions, sending messages, writing invitations, instructions, and/or naming or labeling objects. Finally, students should be able to retell stories and create their own stories, poems, songs, or plays using correct literary forms and language based on stories they have encountered during a response to literature.

Writing Standard 3: Language Use and Conventions

• Kindergarteners typically write freely with little regard to grammatical conventions, yet students are expected to write using the syntax, style, and vocabulary of their oral language, and be able to emulate that of authors with which they have become familiar. They should be able to reread their own text, space their words, and write using the initial consonant sounds.

Author Study:

Kindergarteners participate in an author study on Eric Carle

Eric Carle with Mrs. Miller

   

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Bibliography of Eric Carle books in our library:

• Carle, Eric. 1,2,3 to the Zoo: A Counting Book. PaperStar/Putnam & Grosset, 1998

• Carle, Eric. The Art of Eric Carle. Philomel, 1996

• Carle, Eric. Do You Want to Be My Friend? HarperCollins, 1976

• Carle, Eric. Does a Kangaroo Have a Mother, too? HarperCollins, 2000

• Carle, Eric. Draw Me a Star. Penguin Putnam Books for Young Readers, 1998

• Carle, Eric. Eric Carle's Dragons Dragons & Other Creatures that Never Were. Philomel, 1991

• Carle, Eric. Flora and Tiger: 19 Very Short Stories from My Life. Philomel, 1997

• Carle, Eric. From Head to Toe. HarperCollins, 1997

• Carle, Eric. The Grouchy Ladybug. HarperCollins, 1996

• Carle, Eric. Have You Seen My Cat? Aladdin, 1997

• Carle, Eric. Hello, Red Fox. Simon & Schuster, 1998

• Carle, Eric. A House for a Hermit Crab. Aladdin, 2002

• Carle, Eric. Little Cloud. Puffin, 2001

• Carle, Eric. Mister Seahorse. Philomel, 2004

• Carle, Eric. The Mixed-Up Chameleon. HarperCollins, 1984

• Carle, Eric. My Apron: A Story from My Childhood. Philomel, 1994

• Carle, Eric. Pancakes, Pancakes! Aladdin, 1998

• Carle, Eric. Rooster's Off to See the World. Aladdin, 1999

• Carle, Eric. The Secret Birthday Message. HarperCollins, 1986

• Carle, Eric. "Slowly, Slowly, Slowly," Said the Sloth. Puffin, 2007

• Carle, Eric. Stories for All Seasons. Simon & Schuster, 1998

• Carle, Eric. The Tiny Seed. Aladdin, 2001

• Carle, Eric. Today is Monday. Putnam & Grosset, 1997

• Carle, Eric. The Very Busy Spider. Philomel, 1984

• Carle, Eric. The Very Clumsy Click Beetle. Philomel, 1999

• Carle, Eric. The Very Hungry Caterpillar. Philomel, 1987

• Carle, Eric. The Very Lonely Firefly. Philomel, 1995

• Carle, Eric. The Very Quiet Cricket. Philomel, 1990

• Carle, Eric. Walter the Baker. Aladdin, 1998