Tennessee Department of Education

English/Language Arts - Kindergarten: Accomplishments

Reading

Accomplishments:

  1. K.1.01  Develop oral language.
    1. Show evidence of expanding oral language through vocabulary growth.
    2. Speak clearly, properly, and politely.
    3. Begin to use rules for conversation (e.g., raise hands, take turns and focus attention on speaker).
    4. Give simple, two-step oral directions.
    5. Participate in group discussion.
    6. Participate in creative responses to text (e.g., response, discussion and dramatization).
    7. Ask and respond to questions from teacher and other group members.
    8. Begin to retell familiar stories.
    9. Dramatize, retell, and dictate what has been learned.
    10. Use familiar texts for recitations.
  2. K.1.02  Develop listening skills.
    1. Listen attentively to speaker for specific information.
    2. Use appropriate listening skills (e.g., do not interrupt, face speaker, ask questions).
    3. Listen and respond to a variety of media (e.g., books, audio tapes, videos).
    4. Recognize the difference between formal and informal languages.
    5. Follow simple, two step oral directions.
  3. K.1.03  Demonstrate knowledge of concepts of print.
    1. Identify labels, logos, and signs in the environment (e.g., job instructions, room labels, poison and danger signs/labels).
    2. Understand that print has meaning.
    3. "Pretend read" from left to right, top to bottom, and front to back as well as hold a book upright and turn pages.
    4. Read and explain own writings and drawings.
    5. Identify front cover and back cover of a book.
    6. Distinguish letters from words.
  4. K.1.04  Develop and maintain phonemic awareness.
    1. Understand that a phoneme is one distinct sound.
    2. Use sound stretching of one syllable words to identify each phoneme (cat, /c/, /a/, /t/).
    3. Use sound blending of each separately spoken phoneme to make meaningful word (/m/, /o/, /m/ to mom).
    4. Segment one-syllable words into individual sounds and blend the sounds into whole words.
    5. Recognize and produce rhyming words.
    6. Recognize words that have same beginning and ending sounds.
    7. Understand words are made up of one or more syllables (e.g., students clap syllables in words).
  5. K.1.05  Develop and use decoding strategies.
    1. Recognize and name all upper and lowercase letters of the alphabet.
    2. Begin to understand that the sequence of letters in a written word represents the sequence of sounds in a spoken word.
    3. Use letter-sound matches to decode simple words.
    4. Understand that as letters of words change, so do the sounds (alphabetic principle).
  6. K.1.06  Read to develop fluency, expression, accuracy and confidence.
    1. Read simple text containing familiar letter-sound correspondences and high frequency words.
    2. Recognize that intonation and volume of voice assist with meaning.
    3. Read as "an emergent reader" a favorite story with fluent intonation and phrasing.
  7. K.1.07  Develop and extend reading vocabulary.
    1. Build vocabulary by listening to literature and participating in discussions.
    2. Build vocabulary by experiencing a wide range of text types.
    3. Participate in shared reading.
    4. Begin to use word families and word walls.
    5. Read some words by sight (e.g., the, has, an, can, run and color and number words).
    6. Use a picture dictionary to determine word meaning.
  8. K.1.08  Develop and use pre-reading strategies.
    1. Recognize a purpose for listening.
    2. Relate background knowledge to make meaning from text.
    3. Make predictions about text.
    4. Use illustrations to preview the text.
    5. Participate in the creation of graphic organizers (e.g., KWL, charts).
    6. Connect to life experience the information and events in texts.
  9. K.1.09  Use active comprehension strategies to derive meaning while reading and check for understanding after reading.
    1. Derive meaning while reading by
      1. asking questions about a text.
      2. participating in discussions about text.
      3. predicting what will happen next as a story is shared.
      4. creating mental images of the story (e.g., characters, setting).
    2. Check for understanding after reading by
      1. recalling two to three step sequence of events.
      2. retelling story in own words.
      3. drawing conclusions based on evidence in the story
      4. using pictures to discuss main idea.
  10. K.1.10  Introduce informational skills to facilitate learning.
    1. Recognize the family and community as resources for information.
    2. Recognize a variety of print sources (e.g., books, newspapers, magazines, and charts).
    3. Recognize sources of information (e.g., books, graphs and computers).
  11. K.1.11  Develop skills to facilitate reading to learn in a variety of content areas.
    1. Recognize that printed materials provide information.
    2. Use common illustrations to gain meaning from text.
  12. K.1.12  Read independently for a variety of purposes. (At this level, the student will experience a variety of textx/media for different purposes.)
    1. Read to gain information (e.g., pictures, videos, picture books).
    2. Read for enjoyment (e.g., book on tape, posters, pictures, videos, picture books).
    3. Read to expand vocabulary (e.g., books on tape, photographs, posters)..
  13. K.1.13  Begin to experience various literary and media genres.
    1. Explore picture books.
    2. Explore alphabet and number books.
    3. Explore Mother Goose Rhymes and other rhyming books.
    4. Explore storybooks.
    5. Explore fairy tales.
    6. Explore poetry.
    7. Explore lyrics to songs.
    8. View various media genres (e.g., posters, pictures, photographs, films, videos).
    9. Sequence events in a story (e.g., using books, videos, films).
  14. K.1.14  Develop and maintain a motivation to read.
    1. Visit libraries and regularly check out materials.
    2. Share storybooks, poems and environmental print.
    3. Identify favorite stories.

Writing

Accomplishments:

  1. K.2.01  Use a variety of pre-writing strategies.
    1. Brainstorm ideas with teacher and peers.
    2. Draw pictures to generate ideas.
    3. Construct graphic organizers (e.g., webs, charts, diagrams) in a small or large group to organize information.
    4. Use a variety of sources to gather information.
  2. K.2.02  Write for a variety of purposes.
    1. Write to acquire and exhibit knowledge (e.g., own name-first and last, letters, numbers).
    2. Write to entertain (e.g., pictures, shared writing).
    3. Write to inform (e.g., experience stories).
  3. K.2.03  Show evidence of drafting and revision with written work.
    1. Represent spoken language with illustrations and temporary and/or conventional spelling.
    2. Write consonant-vowel-consonant words with teacher assistance.
    3. Participate in teacher-led experience stories.
    4. Add descriptive words and details.
  4. K.2.04  Include editing before the completion of finished work.
    1. Pause voluntarily in the midst of writing to interpret what has been written (tracking).
    2. Self correct works in progress (e.g., pictures, shared writing).
  5. K.2.05  Evaluate own and others' writing.
    1. Use a simple rubric to evaluate own writing/pictures and group work (e.g., happy face, stickers).
    2.   Discuss and react to writing.
    3.   Review personal collection to determine progress.
  6. K.2.06  Experience numerous publishing opportunities.
    1. Compose a variety of written works (e.g., published books, classroom books, experience stories).
    2. Incorporate illustrations and/or photographs.
    3. Make use of technology to publish writing.
    4. Share orally completed work.
  7. K.2.07  Write narrative accounts.
    1. Participate in the creation of experience stories.
    2. Express thoughts, feelings and experiences through illustrations, dictation or writing.
  8. K.2.08  Write frequently across content areas.
    1. Participate in shared writing about social studies.
    2. Participate in shared writing about science.
    3. Participate in shared writing about math.
    4. Participate in shared writing about the arts and personal activities.
  9. K.2.09  Write expressively using original ideas, reflections, and observations.
    1. Write, when given time, place and materials.
    2. Maintain, with teacher assistance, examples of writing and drawings that express opinions and judgments (e.g., portfolio, journals, student-made books).
    3. Dictate stories (e.g., to tape recorder, to adult, to older student).
  10. K.2.10  Write in response to literature.
    1. Dictate a new ending to a story.
    2. Use repetitive text to re-enact or retell stories.
    3. Create a drawing, picture, sign or other graphic symbols to respond to literature.
    4. Retell stories using illustrations.
  11. K.2.11  Write in a variety of modes and genres.
    1. Illustrate and/or write in journals (e.g., temporary/conventional spelling, series of pictures, and recognizable print).
    2. Write friendly note using temporary/conventional spelling or with teacher assistance.

Elements of Language

Accomplishments:

  1. K.3.01  Demonstrate knowledge of standard English usage.
    1. Use correct grammatical constructions in own speech (e.g., "I will" rather than "Me will").
    2. Use correct verb and verb tense in sentences when speaking (present and past).
  2. K.3.02  Demonstrate knowledge of standard English mechanics.
    1. Form legible upper and lower case letters.
    2. Write from left to right and top to bottom.
    3. Use appropriate capitalization when writing names.
    4. Recognize ending punctuation marks for statements and questions.
    5. Recognize capitalization at the beginning of sentences.
    6. Trace and reproduce letters and words correctly.
  3. K.3.03  Demonstrate knowledge of standard English spelling.
    1. Attempt to spell simple words using pre- to early-phonetic knowledge, sounds of the alphabet, and knowledge of letter names.
    2. Spell own first and last name.
  4. K.3.04  Demonstrate knowledge of correct sentence structure.
    1. Use complete and coherent simple sentences when speaking.
    2. Use logical words and appropriate word order to complete sentences or to respond to questions