Unit 1: All Around the Town / Week 1: Welcome to Pine Hill
(updated 11/14/23)
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Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.ELF:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Early Learning Foundations
Performance Standard: ELA.K.ELF.C:Handwriting
Standard: ELA.K.III
Description: Print upper- and lowercase letters
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.A:Key Ideas and Details
Standard: ELA.K.1
Description: With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.A:Key Ideas and Details
Standard: ELA.K.2
Description: With prompting and support, retell familiar stories, including key details.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.A:Key Ideas and Details
Standard: ELA.K.3
Description: With prompting and support, identify characters, settings, and major events in a story.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.A:Key Ideas and Details
Standard: ELA.K.4
Description: With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.A:Key Ideas and Details
Standard: ELA.K.5
Description: With prompting and support, identify the main topic and retell key details of a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.A:Key Ideas and Details
Standard: ELA.K.6
Description: With prompting and support, describe the connection between two individuals, events, ideas, or pieces of information in a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.B:Craft and Structure
Standard: ELA.K.9
Description: With prompting and support, name the author and illustrator of a story and define the role of each in telling the story.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.B:Craft and Structure
Standard: ELA.K.11
Description: With prompting and support, identify the front cover, back cover, and title page of a book.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.C:Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.13
Description: With prompting and support, describe the relationship between illustrations and the story in which they appear (e.g., what moment in a story an illustration depicts).
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.C:Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.15
Description: With prompting and support, describe the relationship between illustrations and the text in which they appear (e.g., what person, place, thing, or idea in the text an illustration depicts).
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.D:Range of Reading and Text Complexity
Standard: ELA.K.18
Description: Actively engage in group reading activities with purpose and understanding.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.D:Range of Reading and Text Complexity
Standard: ELA.K.19
Description: Actively engage in group reading activities with purpose and understanding.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.RW:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Speaking and Listening
Performance Standard: ELA.K.RW.A:Comprehension and Collaboration
Standard: ELA.K.30
Description: Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about kindergarten topics and texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups. •Follow agreed-upon rules for discussions (e.g., listening to others and taking turns speaking about the topics and texts under discussion). •Continue a conversation through multiple exchanges.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.RW:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Speaking and Listening
Performance Standard: ELA.K.RW.A:Comprehension and Collaboration
Standard: ELA.K.31
Description: Confirm understanding of a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media by asking and answering questions about key details and requesting clarification if something is not understood.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.RW:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Speaking and Listening
Performance Standard: ELA.K.RW.A:Comprehension and Collaboration
Standard: ELA.K.32
Description: Ask and answer questions in order to seek help, get information, or clarify something that is not understood.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.RW:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Speaking and Listening
Performance Standard: ELA.K.RW.B:Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.33
Description: Describe familiar people, places, things, and events and, with prompting and support, provide additional detail.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.RW:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Speaking and Listening
Performance Standard: ELA.K.RW.B:Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.34
Description: Add drawings or other visual displays to descriptions as desired to provide additional detail.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.RW:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Speaking and Listening
Performance Standard: ELA.K.RW.B:Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.35
Description: Speak audibly and express thoughts, feelings, and ideas clearly.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.L:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Language
Performance Standard: ELA.K.L.A:Conventions of Standard English
Standard: ELA.K.36
Description: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking. •Print many upper- and lowercase letters. •Use frequently occurring nouns and verbs. •Form regular plural nouns orally by adding /s/ or /es/ (e.g., dog, dogs; wish, wishes). •Understand and use question words (interrogatives) (e.g., who, what, where, when, why, how). •Use the most frequently occurring prepositions (e.g., to, from, in, out, on, off, for, of, by, with). •Produce and expand complete sentences in shared language activities.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.L:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Language
Performance Standard: ELA.K.L.C:Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
Standard: ELA.K.41
Description: Use words and phrases acquired through conversations, reading and being read to, and responding to texts.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: Science
Strand: S.K:West Virginia Science - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: S.K.GS:General Science
Standard: S.K.GS.3
Description: use observations to describe patterns of what plants and animals (including humans) need to survive
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Social Studies
Strand: SS.K:West Virginia Social Studies - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: C.SS.K:Civics
Standard: SS.K.2
Description: Participate in role play to resolve disputes, and demonstrate tolerance and acceptance of others and their ideas.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Social Studies
Strand: SS.K:West Virginia Social Studies - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: C.SS.K:Civics
Standard: SS.K.3
Description: Investigate the need for rules in their environment, create a set of classroom rules, and explore the consequences for not following the rules.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Social Studies
Strand: SS.K:West Virginia Social Studies - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: C.SS.K:Civics
Standard: SS.K.4
Description: Investigate the leadership roles within their families, classrooms and schools and demonstrate their understanding through activities such as role play and classroom jobs.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Social Studies
Strand: SS.K:West Virginia Social Studies - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: E.SS.K:Economics
Standard: SS.K.8
Description: Distinguish between wants and needs.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Social Studies
Strand: SS.K:West Virginia Social Studies - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: G.SS.K:Geography
Standard: SS.K.13
Description: Investigate the need for symbols in daily life (e.g., exit, stop sign, bathroom signs, school zone, stop light, etc.).
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Social Studies
Strand: SS.K:West Virginia Social Studies - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: H.SS.K:History
Standard: SS.K.14
Description: Illustrate personal history (e.g., first and last name, birthday, age, guardian's name, and other personal data).
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Social Studies
Strand: SS.K:West Virginia Social Studies - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: H.SS.K:History
Standard: SS.K.15
Description: Explore the history of the school and give examples of significant sites and people (e.g., principals, secretaries, teachers, custodians, etc.).
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Social Studies
Strand: SS.K:West Virginia Social Studies - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: H.SS.K:History
Standard: SS.K.17
Description: Explore time, places, people and events in relationship to student's own life (e.g., family trees, pictures, stories, etc.).
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
Student Objectives
Lesson 1
State the importance of learning
Apply rules and procedures for behavior
Explain that we all have responsibilities at home, at school, and in the community
State the importance of authority figures
Use good pencil hold
Sing an alphabet song
Identify the first letter in a name
Trace lines from left to right
Lesson 2
Recall why routines and order are important to learning
Predict what will happen when two colors are mixed
Identify the first letter of a name
State that names begin with an uppercase letter
Complete a creative-writing activity
Sing an alphabet song
Match pictures that are alike
Use correct pencil hold, and differentiate between left and right hands
Lesson 3
Tell how people in a community help each other accomplish a goal
Follow agreed-upon rules for discussions
Compare heavy and light objects
Identify the main character in a story
Use fine-motor skills to cut out pictures
Sing an alphabet song
Match letters and shapes
Review correct pencil hold
Trace left to right
Lesson 4
Describe the first family that God made
Explain the purpose of a family album
Make a family album
Identify rhyming words
Trace slanting lines from top to bottom
Use visual discrimination to match letters
Lesson 5
Identify the front cover, back cover, title page, and page numbers of a book
Identify the main characters in a story
Demonstrate the proper handling of a book
Retell a picture story
Tell how people in a community help each other accomplish a goal
Lessons
Lesson 1: Everyone Helping
Lesson 2: Favorite Colors
Lesson 3: Moving Day
Lesson 4: My Family
Lesson 5: New Friends
Learning Center - Matching Shapes
Snack of the Week - Alphabet Cupcakes
Heritage Studies
Biblical Worldview
Introduce the story
A Family Album
Composition: Family Album
Let's Read
Picture Reading
Language Arts
Alphabet Recognition
Alphabet Awareness
Alphabet Practice
Visual Discrimination - Shapes
Letter Match
Words that Rhyme
Handwriting
Pencil Hold
Left to Right
Trace It
Packing List
Slanted
Story and Rhyme Time
Various books associated with theme (see teacher guide)
Read aloud to students for 10-15 minutes
Motor Skills
Grocery Store Obstacle Course
Left and Right
Tape Shapes
Cleaning the Mirror
Alphabet Matching
Family Walk
Color Directions
Sing a Song
Hopscotch
This Is the Way We Clean the House
Color Song
My Family
Science
Colors
Mixing Colors with Flashlights
I Spy
Arts and Crafts
Paper-Plate Rainbow
Moving Van Family Member
Bell
Write Now!
Write Now! page 3
Write Now! page 4
Write Now! page 5
Write Now! pages 6-8
Show and Tell
Biblical Integration Concepts
God is great, and God is good
God created me and all things
The Bible is God's Word, and it is true
I learn in order to serve God and others
Biblical Integration Strategies
Use Scripture verses
Romans 3:23
Romans 5:8
Romans 10:9-10, 13-14a
Tell the story of Noah and the Flood from Genesis 8:15-9:17
Talk about the colors Noah saw in the first rainbow
Tell the story of Abram and Sarai (Genesis 11:27-12:20)
Sing phonics song as each new letter sound is introduced
Use colorful pictures to reinforce each letter and sound
Present letter formation with the name and sound to reinforce visual memory
Use games and motor activities to practice and review sounds and words
Utilize phonics stories to practice new skills and foster comprehension
Discuss comprehension questions after the Listening Story to help develop higher-order thinking skills
Provide phonic instruction in a logical format / use phonic characters
Use word families (both oral and written) to aid in mastery
Focus handwriting instruction on the process and the product
Use weekly writing activities that build on the unit theme
Allow for independent writing for students who are ready to venture into "attempted spelling"
Differentiate instruction
Utilize colorful word cards
Display alphabet song charts, both uppercase and lowercase
Unit 1: All Around the Town / Week 2: Firefighters at Work
(updated 11/14/23)
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Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.L:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Language
Performance Standard: ELA.K.L.A:Conventions of Standard English
Standard: ELA.K.37
Description: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing. •Capitalize the first word in a sentence and the pronoun I. •Recognize and name end punctuation. •Write a letter or letters for most consonant and short-vowel sounds (phonemes). •Spell simple words phonetically, drawing on knowledge of sound-letter relationships.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: Social Studies
Strand: SS.K:West Virginia Social Studies - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: C.SS.K:Civics
Standard: SS.K.1
Description: Develop an understanding of citizenship and patriotism through a variety of experiences (e.g., appropriate behavior, sharing, taking turns, volunteering, being honest and demonstrating responsibility for materials and personal belongings).
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Social Studies
Strand: SS.K:West Virginia Social Studies - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: C.SS.K:Civics
Standard: SS.K.2
Description: Participate in role play to resolve disputes, and demonstrate tolerance and acceptance of others and their ideas.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Social Studies
Strand: SS.K:West Virginia Social Studies - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: C.SS.K:Civics
Standard: SS.K.3
Description: Investigate the need for rules in their environment, create a set of classroom rules, and explore the consequences for not following the rules.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Social Studies
Strand: SS.K:West Virginia Social Studies - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: C.SS.K:Civics
Standard: SS.K.4
Description: Investigate the leadership roles within their families, classrooms and schools and demonstrate their understanding through activities such as role play and classroom jobs.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Social Studies
Strand: SS.K:West Virginia Social Studies - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: E.SS.K:Economics
Standard: SS.K.5
Description: Investigate occupations within the school and local community.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Social Studies
Strand: SS.K:West Virginia Social Studies - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: E.SS.K:Economics
Standard: SS.K.6
Description: Discover the basic needs of people (e.g., shelter, food, clothing, etc.) and give examples of each.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Social Studies
Strand: SS.K:West Virginia Social Studies - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: E.SS.K:Economics
Standard: SS.K.8
Description: Distinguish between wants and needs.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Social Studies
Strand: SS.K:West Virginia Social Studies - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: G.SS.K:Geography
Standard: SS.K.13
Description: Investigate the need for symbols in daily life (e.g., exit, stop sign, bathroom signs, school zone, stop light, etc.).
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Social Studies
Strand: SS.K:West Virginia Social Studies - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: H.SS.K:History
Standard: SS.K.17
Description: Explore time, places, people and events in relationship to student's own life (e.g., family trees, pictures, stories, etc.).
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
Student Objectives
Lesson 6
Identify characters in a story
Identify places in a fire station
Explain how some of the places at a fire station help the firefighters
Identify uppercase and lowercase Tt
Use letter-sound association for t
Write t
Lesson 7
Explain why firefighters wear protective gear when fighting a fire
Identify the tools that firefighters use to put out fires
State the importance of the role of authority figures like firefighters in a community
Complete a creative writing activity
Identify uppercase and lowercase Tt
Use letter-sound association for t
State that names begin with uppercase letters
Write T
Lesson 8
Explain the importance of having a home fire escape plan
Demonstrate "Stop, Drop, and Roll"
Create a fire escape plan
Identify uppercase and lowercase Ii
Use letter-sound association for i
Read the word it
Blend two phonemes into a recognizable word
Demonstrate correct spacing when writing a word
Write i
Write a word
Lesson 9
Complete a creative-writing activity
Describe different kinds of fire trucks and how they are used to fight fires
Identify uppercase and lowercase Ii
Use letter-sound association for i
Read the word I
Write I
Lesson 10
Predict what the surprise might be
Identify the main characters in a story
Interpret supporting details in pictures
Use role-playing to interpret the story
Lessons
Lesson 6: The Fire Station
Lesson 7: Firefighter's Gear
Lesson 8: Fire Safety at Home
Lesson 9: Fire Trucks
Lesson 10: Surprise!
Learning Center - Alphabet Ladders
Snack of the Week
Fire Trucks
Fire Cups
Fire Hydrants
Heritage Studies
Fire Safety
Home Fire Escape Plan
Fire Trucks
Story and Rhyme Time
Various books (see teacher guide)
Language Arts
Phonics and English Skills
Read a Word
Complete a Sentence
Letter Recognition
Sing the Sounds
Rhyming Words
Review Song Chart: t, i
Teach Song Chart: i
Hear the Sound: Initial t, Initial i, i, Medial i
Handwriting
Air-Tracing
Paper Hold and Posture
Spacing Within a Word
Phonics Fun
Hide and Seek
Match the House
Find the Matching Letter
Read the Words
Introduce Vowels
Alphabet Dominoes
Grammar: Proper Nouns
High-Frequency Words
Guided Reading
Dalmatian Letter Sort
Write Now!
Write Now! pages 9-13
Motor Skills
Shadow Tag
Outdoor Bucket Relay
Family Soccer Relay
Smoke Detector Lacing
Sit and Stand
Fire Drill
Sing a Song
Hopscotch
Community Helpers verse 3
Friends Around the Town
My House
I'm a Firefighter
Arts and Crafts
Shape Fire Truck
Fire Painting
9-1-1
Put Out the Fire
Science
Fire Gear
Composition
Show and Tell
share experiences of holding a new puppy
Bring an item related to a surprise, home fire escape plan, firefighter, or a fire
Biblical Integration Concepts
God is great, and God is good
God created me and all things
The Bible is God's Word, and it is true
I learn in order to serve God and others
Biblical Integration Strategies
Tell story of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego
Discuss the miracle God did to protect the three friends from the fire
Miracles are acts only God can do
Tell the story of Elijah and the prophets of Baal
Tell story of Moses and the burning bush from Exodus 3
Tell story of Elijah and the chariot of fire from 2 Kings 2
Utilize learning centers
Introduce sounds through the use of songs
Use listening lessons and the accompanying questions to evoke levels of developmental thinking
Use cards to create phonics stories to provide practice for new skills and to foster comprehension
Review previous materials
Use colorful pictures to reinforce each letter and sound
Have students sing a phonics song as they learn each new letter-sound association
Have students use games and motor activities to practice review sounds and words
Practice letter formation with the name and sound to reinforce visual memory
Use word family practice both oral and written
Adapt handwriting instruction to the needs of students
Assign writing activities and composition activities
Group for differentiated instruction
Set up Learning Centers within the classroom for hands-on-activities and for play
Assign student worktext and phonic practice pages
Display the Alphabet Song Chart (laminate)
Give students copies of High-Frequency Word Cards and Word-Family Cards
Mount the Handwriting Charts across the front of the classroom
Set up a pocket chart for use with the phonics characters, spelling cards, etc.
Display the families and friends visuals
Build silent and oral reading habits
Utilize reading markers
Unit 1: All Around the Town / Week 3: Police Officers, Our Friends
(updated 11/14/23)
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Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.ELF:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Early Learning Foundations
Performance Standard: ELA.K.ELF.B:Phonics and Word Recognition
Standard: ELA.K.II
Description: Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words. •Demonstrate basic knowledge of one-to-one letter-sound correspondences by producing the primary or many of the most frequent sound for each consonant. •Associate the long and short sounds with common spellings (graphemes) for the five major vowels. •Read common high-frequency words by sight (e.g., the, of, to, you, she, my, is, are, do, does). •Distinguish between similarly spelled words by identifying the sounds of the letters that differ.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.ELF:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Early Learning Foundations
Performance Standard: ELA.K.ELF.C:Handwriting
Standard: ELA.K.III
Description: Print upper- and lowercase letters
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.ELF:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Early Learning Foundations
Description: Demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds (phonemes). •Recognize and produce rhyming words. •Count, pronounce, blend, and segment syllables in spoken words. •Blend and segment onsets and rimes of single-syllable spoken words. •Isolate and pronounce the initial, medial vowel, and final sounds (phonemes) in three-phoneme (consonant-vowel-consonant, or CVC) words. (This does not include CVCs ending with /l/, /r/, or /x/.) •Add or substitute individual sounds (phonemes) in simple, one-syllable words to make new words.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.ELF:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Early Learning Foundations
Performance Standard: ELA.K.ELF.E:Print concepts
Standard: ELA.K.V
Description: Demonstrate understanding of the organization and basic features of print. •Follow words from left to right, top to bottom, and page by page. •Recognize that spoken words are represented in written language by specific sequences of letters. •Understand that words are separated by spaces in print. •Recognize and name all upper- and lowercase letters of the alphabet.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.A:Key Ideas and Details
Standard: ELA.K.1
Description: With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.A:Key Ideas and Details
Standard: ELA.K.2
Description: With prompting and support, retell familiar stories, including key details.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.A:Key Ideas and Details
Standard: ELA.K.3
Description: With prompting and support, identify characters, settings, and major events in a story.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.A:Key Ideas and Details
Standard: ELA.K.4
Description: With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.A:Key Ideas and Details
Standard: ELA.K.6
Description: With prompting and support, describe the connection between two individuals, events, ideas, or pieces of information in a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.B:Craft and Structure
Standard: ELA.K.7
Description: With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about unknown words in a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.B:Craft and Structure
Standard: ELA.K.9
Description: With prompting and support, name the author and illustrator of a story and define the role of each in telling the story.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.B:Craft and Structure
Standard: ELA.K.10
Description: With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about unknown words in a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.B:Craft and Structure
Standard: ELA.K.11
Description: With prompting and support, identify the front cover, back cover, and title page of a book.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.B:Craft and Structure
Standard: ELA.K.12
Description: With prompting and support, name the author and illustrator of a text and define the role of each in presenting the ideas or information in a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.C:Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.13
Description: With prompting and support, describe the relationship between illustrations and the story in which they appear (e.g., what moment in a story an illustration depicts).
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.C:Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.15
Description: With prompting and support, describe the relationship between illustrations and the text in which they appear (e.g., what person, place, thing, or idea in the text an illustration depicts).
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.C:Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.16
Description: With prompting and support, identify the reasons an author gives to support points in a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.D:Range of Reading and Text Complexity
Standard: ELA.K.18
Description: Actively engage in group reading activities with purpose and understanding.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.D:Range of Reading and Text Complexity
Standard: ELA.K.19
Description: Actively engage in group reading activities with purpose and understanding.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.RW:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Speaking and Listening
Performance Standard: ELA.K.RW.A:Comprehension and Collaboration
Standard: ELA.K.30
Description: Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about kindergarten topics and texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups. •Follow agreed-upon rules for discussions (e.g., listening to others and taking turns speaking about the topics and texts under discussion). •Continue a conversation through multiple exchanges.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.RW:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Speaking and Listening
Performance Standard: ELA.K.RW.A:Comprehension and Collaboration
Standard: ELA.K.31
Description: Confirm understanding of a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media by asking and answering questions about key details and requesting clarification if something is not understood.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.RW:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Speaking and Listening
Performance Standard: ELA.K.RW.A:Comprehension and Collaboration
Standard: ELA.K.32
Description: Ask and answer questions in order to seek help, get information, or clarify something that is not understood.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.RW:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Speaking and Listening
Performance Standard: ELA.K.RW.B:Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.33
Description: Describe familiar people, places, things, and events and, with prompting and support, provide additional detail.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.RW:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Speaking and Listening
Performance Standard: ELA.K.RW.B:Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.35
Description: Speak audibly and express thoughts, feelings, and ideas clearly.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: Social Studies
Strand: SS.K:West Virginia Social Studies - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: C.SS.K:Civics
Standard: SS.K.1
Description: Develop an understanding of citizenship and patriotism through a variety of experiences (e.g., appropriate behavior, sharing, taking turns, volunteering, being honest and demonstrating responsibility for materials and personal belongings).
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Social Studies
Strand: SS.K:West Virginia Social Studies - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: C.SS.K:Civics
Standard: SS.K.2
Description: Participate in role play to resolve disputes, and demonstrate tolerance and acceptance of others and their ideas.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Social Studies
Strand: SS.K:West Virginia Social Studies - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: C.SS.K:Civics
Standard: SS.K.3
Description: Investigate the need for rules in their environment, create a set of classroom rules, and explore the consequences for not following the rules.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Social Studies
Strand: SS.K:West Virginia Social Studies - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: C.SS.K:Civics
Standard: SS.K.4
Description: Investigate the leadership roles within their families, classrooms and schools and demonstrate their understanding through activities such as role play and classroom jobs.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Social Studies
Strand: SS.K:West Virginia Social Studies - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: E.SS.K:Economics
Standard: SS.K.5
Description: Investigate occupations within the school and local community.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Social Studies
Strand: SS.K:West Virginia Social Studies - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: E.SS.K:Economics
Standard: SS.K.6
Description: Discover the basic needs of people (e.g., shelter, food, clothing, etc.) and give examples of each.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Social Studies
Strand: SS.K:West Virginia Social Studies - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: E.SS.K:Economics
Standard: SS.K.8
Description: Distinguish between wants and needs.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Social Studies
Strand: SS.K:West Virginia Social Studies - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: G.SS.K:Geography
Standard: SS.K.13
Description: Investigate the need for symbols in daily life (e.g., exit, stop sign, bathroom signs, school zone, stop light, etc.).
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Social Studies
Strand: SS.K:West Virginia Social Studies - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: H.SS.K:History
Standard: SS.K.14
Description: Illustrate personal history (e.g., first and last name, birthday, age, guardian's name, and other personal data).
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
Student Objectives
Lesson 11
State from the Bible why we should obey authorities such as police officers
Explain why it is important to obey laws like buckling seat belts
Use visual discrimination to match pictures
Identify uppercase and lowercase Ss
Use letter-sound association for s
Read the high-frequency word is
Read words with the phonogram _it
Write a word
Lesson 12
Identify the uniforms worn by community helpers
Complete a creative writing activity
Identify uppercase and lowercase Ss
Use letter-sound association for s
Read words with the phonogram _it
Write S
Lesson 13
State what the lights on a traffic signal mean to drivers
Organize pictures in story order
Add a period to the end of a sentence
Identify uppercase and lowercase Nn
Use letter-sound association for n
Read words with the phonogram -in
Write N
Lesson 14
Observe fingerprints to understand that they are unique to each person
Infer that God made each person unique
Complete a creative writing activity
Use visual discrimination to match pictures
Identify uppercase and lowercase Nn
Use letter-sound association for n
Read words with the phonograms _it and _in
Write N
Lesson 15
Interpret details in pictures
Identify a period
Read a simple sentence with the aid of a rebus
Lessons
Lesson 11: Buckle Up
Lesson 12: Uniforms
Lesson 13: Traffic Lights
Lesson 14: Policemen Protect Us
Lesson 15: Hopscotch
Learning Center - Parking Lot
Snack of the Week - Traffic Lights
Heritage Studies
Police Officers
Uniforms
Traffic Signals
Story and Rhyme Time (various)
Language Arts
Phonics and English Skills
Letter Recognition
Sing the Sounds
Read Word Families
High-Frequency Words
Handwriting
Grammar
Proper Nouns
Phonics Charts
Phonics Fun: Up the Stairs
Phonics Fun: Police Letter Sort
Phonics Fun: Traffic Light
Phonics Fun: Tic-Tac-Toe
Activities
Alphabet Book
Hat and Badge
Letter Relay
Book Sort
Sing a Song
Friends Around the Town
Community Helpers
Time to Write
Show and Tell
Bring an item or tell a story related to a police officer, car, or a car ride
Science
Fingerprints
Arts and Crafts
Police Officer's Badge
Police Vests
Traffic Light
Fingerprint Mouse
Motor Skills
Making S
Red Light, Green Light
Just Like Me
Write Now!
Write Now! pages 14-18
Biblical Integration Concepts
God is great, and God is good
God created me and all things
The Bible is God's Word, and it is true
I learn in order to serve God and others
Biblical Integration Strategies
Continue to integrate the themes of sharing the gospel
Discuss how God takes care of us and that rules and procedures are put in place to help protect us
Tell the story of the Ten Commandments from Exodus 20 explaining that many of the laws we use today are based on the laws that God gave Moses
Tell the story of God protecting Elisha (2 Kings 6:8-23); point out that God sometimes uses people such as police officers to protect us, but our protection is truly from God
Utilize classroom stations
Present phonics instruction in a logical format (following same pattern)
Have students practice word families in both oral and written form
Adapt handwriting instruction to the needs of specific students
Focus on posture, pencil hold, and paper slant during handwriting and composition time
Post daily schedule
Evaluate student progress using the checkup stations and the Review for You pages
Invite students into the joy and benefits of reading by providing a large selection of specific books for them to choose from
Unit 1: All Around the Town / Week 4: Pine HIll Post Office
(updated 11/14/23)
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.ELF:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Early Learning Foundations
Performance Standard: ELA.K.ELF.A:Fluency
Standard: ELA.K.I
Description: Read emergent-reader texts with purpose and understanding.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.ELF:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Early Learning Foundations
Performance Standard: ELA.K.ELF.B:Phonics and Word Recognition
Standard: ELA.K.II
Description: Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words. •Demonstrate basic knowledge of one-to-one letter-sound correspondences by producing the primary or many of the most frequent sound for each consonant. •Associate the long and short sounds with common spellings (graphemes) for the five major vowels. •Read common high-frequency words by sight (e.g., the, of, to, you, she, my, is, are, do, does). •Distinguish between similarly spelled words by identifying the sounds of the letters that differ.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.ELF:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Early Learning Foundations
Performance Standard: ELA.K.ELF.C:Handwriting
Standard: ELA.K.III
Description: Print upper- and lowercase letters
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.ELF:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Early Learning Foundations
Description: Demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds (phonemes). •Recognize and produce rhyming words. •Count, pronounce, blend, and segment syllables in spoken words. •Blend and segment onsets and rimes of single-syllable spoken words. •Isolate and pronounce the initial, medial vowel, and final sounds (phonemes) in three-phoneme (consonant-vowel-consonant, or CVC) words. (This does not include CVCs ending with /l/, /r/, or /x/.) •Add or substitute individual sounds (phonemes) in simple, one-syllable words to make new words.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.ELF:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Early Learning Foundations
Performance Standard: ELA.K.ELF.E:Print concepts
Standard: ELA.K.V
Description: Demonstrate understanding of the organization and basic features of print. •Follow words from left to right, top to bottom, and page by page. •Recognize that spoken words are represented in written language by specific sequences of letters. •Understand that words are separated by spaces in print. •Recognize and name all upper- and lowercase letters of the alphabet.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.A:Key Ideas and Details
Standard: ELA.K.1
Description: With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.A:Key Ideas and Details
Standard: ELA.K.2
Description: With prompting and support, retell familiar stories, including key details.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.A:Key Ideas and Details
Standard: ELA.K.3
Description: With prompting and support, identify characters, settings, and major events in a story.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.A:Key Ideas and Details
Standard: ELA.K.4
Description: With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.A:Key Ideas and Details
Standard: ELA.K.5
Description: With prompting and support, identify the main topic and retell key details of a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.A:Key Ideas and Details
Standard: ELA.K.6
Description: With prompting and support, describe the connection between two individuals, events, ideas, or pieces of information in a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.B:Craft and Structure
Standard: ELA.K.7
Description: With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about unknown words in a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.B:Craft and Structure
Standard: ELA.K.8
Description: With prompting and support, recognize common types of texts (e.g., storybooks, poems).
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.B:Craft and Structure
Standard: ELA.K.9
Description: With prompting and support, name the author and illustrator of a story and define the role of each in telling the story.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.B:Craft and Structure
Standard: ELA.K.10
Description: With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about unknown words in a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.B:Craft and Structure
Standard: ELA.K.11
Description: With prompting and support, identify the front cover, back cover, and title page of a book.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.C:Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.13
Description: With prompting and support, describe the relationship between illustrations and the story in which they appear (e.g., what moment in a story an illustration depicts).
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.C:Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.14
Description: With prompting and support, compare and contrast the adventures and experiences of characters in familiar stories.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.C:Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.15
Description: With prompting and support, describe the relationship between illustrations and the text in which they appear (e.g., what person, place, thing, or idea in the text an illustration depicts).
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.D:Range of Reading and Text Complexity
Standard: ELA.K.18
Description: Actively engage in group reading activities with purpose and understanding.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.D:Range of Reading and Text Complexity
Standard: ELA.K.19
Description: Actively engage in group reading activities with purpose and understanding.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.W:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Writing
Performance Standard: ELA.K.W.A:Text Types and Purposes
Standard: ELA.K.22
Description: Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to narrate a single event or several loosely linked events, tell about the events in the order in which they occurred, and provide a reaction to what happened.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.W:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Writing
Performance Standard: ELA.K.W.B:Production and Distribution of Writing
Standard: ELA.K.24
Description: With guidance and support from adults, respond to questions and suggestions from peers and add details to strengthen writing as needed.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.RW:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Speaking and Listening
Performance Standard: ELA.K.RW.A:Comprehension and Collaboration
Standard: ELA.K.30
Description: Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about kindergarten topics and texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups. •Follow agreed-upon rules for discussions (e.g., listening to others and taking turns speaking about the topics and texts under discussion). •Continue a conversation through multiple exchanges.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.RW:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Speaking and Listening
Performance Standard: ELA.K.RW.A:Comprehension and Collaboration
Standard: ELA.K.31
Description: Confirm understanding of a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media by asking and answering questions about key details and requesting clarification if something is not understood.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.RW:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Speaking and Listening
Performance Standard: ELA.K.RW.A:Comprehension and Collaboration
Standard: ELA.K.32
Description: Ask and answer questions in order to seek help, get information, or clarify something that is not understood.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.RW:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Speaking and Listening
Performance Standard: ELA.K.RW.B:Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.33
Description: Describe familiar people, places, things, and events and, with prompting and support, provide additional detail.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.RW:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Speaking and Listening
Performance Standard: ELA.K.RW.B:Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.34
Description: Add drawings or other visual displays to descriptions as desired to provide additional detail.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.RW:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Speaking and Listening
Performance Standard: ELA.K.RW.B:Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.35
Description: Speak audibly and express thoughts, feelings, and ideas clearly.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.L:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Language
Performance Standard: ELA.K.L.A:Conventions of Standard English
Standard: ELA.K.36
Description: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking. •Print many upper- and lowercase letters. •Use frequently occurring nouns and verbs. •Form regular plural nouns orally by adding /s/ or /es/ (e.g., dog, dogs; wish, wishes). •Understand and use question words (interrogatives) (e.g., who, what, where, when, why, how). •Use the most frequently occurring prepositions (e.g., to, from, in, out, on, off, for, of, by, with). •Produce and expand complete sentences in shared language activities.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.L:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Language
Performance Standard: ELA.K.L.C:Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
Standard: ELA.K.40
Description: With guidance and support from adults, explore word relationships and nuances in word meanings. •Sort common objects into categories (e.g., shapes, foods) to gain a sense of the concepts the categories represent. •Demonstrate understanding of frequently occurring verbs and adjectives by relating them to their opposites (antonyms). •Identify real-life connections between words and their use (e.g., note places at school that are colorful). •Distinguish shades of meaning among verbs describing the same general action (e.g., walk, march, strut, prance) by acting out the meanings.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.L:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Language
Performance Standard: ELA.K.L.C:Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
Standard: ELA.K.41
Description: Use words and phrases acquired through conversations, reading and being read to, and responding to texts.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: Science
Strand: S.K:West Virginia Science - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: S.K.GS:General Science
Standard: S.K.GS.3
Description: use observations to describe patterns of what plants and animals (including humans) need to survive
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Science
Strand: S.K:West Virginia Science - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: S.K.GS:General Science
Standard: S.K.GS.5
Description: use a model to represent the relationship between the needs of different plants or animals (including humans) and the places they live
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Social Studies
Strand: SS.K:West Virginia Social Studies - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: C.SS.K:Civics
Standard: SS.K.1
Description: Develop an understanding of citizenship and patriotism through a variety of experiences (e.g., appropriate behavior, sharing, taking turns, volunteering, being honest and demonstrating responsibility for materials and personal belongings).
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
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Subject Area: Social Studies
Strand: SS.K:West Virginia Social Studies - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: C.SS.K:Civics
Standard: SS.K.2
Description: Participate in role play to resolve disputes, and demonstrate tolerance and acceptance of others and their ideas.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Social Studies
Strand: SS.K:West Virginia Social Studies - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: C.SS.K:Civics
Standard: SS.K.3
Description: Investigate the need for rules in their environment, create a set of classroom rules, and explore the consequences for not following the rules.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Social Studies
Strand: SS.K:West Virginia Social Studies - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: C.SS.K:Civics
Standard: SS.K.4
Description: Investigate the leadership roles within their families, classrooms and schools and demonstrate their understanding through activities such as role play and classroom jobs.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Social Studies
Strand: SS.K:West Virginia Social Studies - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: E.SS.K:Economics
Standard: SS.K.5
Description: Investigate occupations within the school and local community.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Social Studies
Strand: SS.K:West Virginia Social Studies - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: E.SS.K:Economics
Standard: SS.K.6
Description: Discover the basic needs of people (e.g., shelter, food, clothing, etc.) and give examples of each.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Social Studies
Strand: SS.K:West Virginia Social Studies - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: E.SS.K:Economics
Standard: SS.K.7
Description: Investigate the exchange of goods and services (e.g., money, bartering, trading, etc.).
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Social Studies
Strand: SS.K:West Virginia Social Studies - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: E.SS.K:Economics
Standard: SS.K.8
Description: Distinguish between wants and needs.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Social Studies
Strand: SS.K:West Virginia Social Studies - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: G.SS.K:Geography
Standard: SS.K.13
Description: Investigate the need for symbols in daily life (e.g., exit, stop sign, bathroom signs, school zone, stop light, etc.).
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Social Studies
Strand: SS.K:West Virginia Social Studies - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: H.SS.K:History
Standard: SS.K.14
Description: Illustrate personal history (e.g., first and last name, birthday, age, guardian's name, and other personal data).
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
Student Objectives
Lesson 16
Use visual discrimination to compare postage stamps
Explain how parts of a mailing address help the mail carrier do his job
Identify uppercase and lowercase Hh
Use letter-sound association for h
Recognize that an exclamation point is used to show excitement
Read words with the phonogram _it
Read high-frequency words: here, she
Write h
Lesson 17
Explain the history of the postal system
Match a written name to a name tag
Identify uppercase and lowercase Hh
Use letter-sound association for h
Read words with final s
Write H
Lesson 18
Identify items needed for mailing a box for delivery
Identify uppercase and lowercase Ww
Use letter-sound association for w
Read words with final s
Read words with phonograms _in and _it
Write w
Write a word
Lesson 19
State how ZIP codes help when sorting mail
Write a class thank-you letter
List ways that personal letters encourage others
Identify uppercase and lowercase Ww
Use letter-sound association for w
Write W
Lesson 20
Interpret details in pictures
Read simple sentences
Predict the outcome of the story
Identify key details in a text
Use proper inflection when reading a sentence with an exclamation point
Lessons
Lesson 16:Getting Mail
Lesson 17: Delivering the Mail
Lesson 18: Mailing Packages
Lesson 19: Writing a Letter
Lesson 20: Hit It!
Learning Center - Mail Sort
Snack of the Week - Delicious Letters
Show and Tell
Bring an item or tell a story about stamps, mail carriers, or a special letter or card
Heritage Studies
Getting Mail
Mail Delivery
Mail a Package / Pack a Box
A Thank-You Letter
Language Arts
Phonics and English Skills
Letter Recognition
Add to a Word Family
Punctuation: Exclamation Point
Handwriting
Phonics
Phonics Story
Phonics Fun: Mail Truck Letter Sort
Phonics Fun: Mailing Packages
Phonics Fun: Sort the Mail
Practice Time
Activities
Mail
Mystery Letter
Packing a Class Book
Thank-You Cards
Mail a Letter
High-Frequency Words
Grammar
Proper Nouns
Final s
Story and Rhyme Time
see teacher guide for suggested books
Write Now
Write Now! pages 19-23
Motor Skills
Mail Carrier and Letter
Pony Express
Letter Relay
The Mail Route
Letter, Letter, Friend
Arts and Crafts
Mail Carrier's Hat
Special Delivery
Make a Stamp
Sing a Song
A Tisket, a Tasket
Biblical Integration Concepts
God is great, and God is good
God created me and all things
The Bible is God's Word, and it is true
I learn in order to serve God and others
Biblical Integration Strategies
Explain that the Bible also contains letters and that these letters make up what we call books of the Bible
Tell the story of Nehemiah; explain how the letters from the king helped Nehemiah on his journey
Utilize stations
Differentiate reading
Use graphics and pictures
Set up specific daily classroom routines
Use reading comprehension cards
Present letter formation with the name and sound to reinforce visual memory
Have students sing a phonics song as they learn each new letter-sound association
Colorful pictures reinforce each letter sound
Utilize the theme of the lesson to reinforce and connect various objectives
Unit 1: All Around the Town / Week 5: Healthcare Workers
(updated 11/14/23)
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Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.ELF:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Early Learning Foundations
Performance Standard: ELA.K.ELF.A:Fluency
Standard: ELA.K.I
Description: Read emergent-reader texts with purpose and understanding.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.ELF:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Early Learning Foundations
Performance Standard: ELA.K.ELF.B:Phonics and Word Recognition
Standard: ELA.K.II
Description: Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words. •Demonstrate basic knowledge of one-to-one letter-sound correspondences by producing the primary or many of the most frequent sound for each consonant. •Associate the long and short sounds with common spellings (graphemes) for the five major vowels. •Read common high-frequency words by sight (e.g., the, of, to, you, she, my, is, are, do, does). •Distinguish between similarly spelled words by identifying the sounds of the letters that differ.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.ELF:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Early Learning Foundations
Performance Standard: ELA.K.ELF.C:Handwriting
Standard: ELA.K.III
Description: Print upper- and lowercase letters
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.ELF:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Early Learning Foundations
Description: Demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds (phonemes). •Recognize and produce rhyming words. •Count, pronounce, blend, and segment syllables in spoken words. •Blend and segment onsets and rimes of single-syllable spoken words. •Isolate and pronounce the initial, medial vowel, and final sounds (phonemes) in three-phoneme (consonant-vowel-consonant, or CVC) words. (This does not include CVCs ending with /l/, /r/, or /x/.) •Add or substitute individual sounds (phonemes) in simple, one-syllable words to make new words.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.ELF:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Early Learning Foundations
Performance Standard: ELA.K.ELF.E:Print concepts
Standard: ELA.K.V
Description: Demonstrate understanding of the organization and basic features of print. •Follow words from left to right, top to bottom, and page by page. •Recognize that spoken words are represented in written language by specific sequences of letters. •Understand that words are separated by spaces in print. •Recognize and name all upper- and lowercase letters of the alphabet.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.A:Key Ideas and Details
Standard: ELA.K.1
Description: With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.A:Key Ideas and Details
Standard: ELA.K.2
Description: With prompting and support, retell familiar stories, including key details.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.A:Key Ideas and Details
Standard: ELA.K.3
Description: With prompting and support, identify characters, settings, and major events in a story.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.A:Key Ideas and Details
Standard: ELA.K.4
Description: With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.A:Key Ideas and Details
Standard: ELA.K.5
Description: With prompting and support, identify the main topic and retell key details of a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.A:Key Ideas and Details
Standard: ELA.K.6
Description: With prompting and support, describe the connection between two individuals, events, ideas, or pieces of information in a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.B:Craft and Structure
Standard: ELA.K.7
Description: With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about unknown words in a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.B:Craft and Structure
Standard: ELA.K.8
Description: With prompting and support, recognize common types of texts (e.g., storybooks, poems).
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.B:Craft and Structure
Standard: ELA.K.9
Description: With prompting and support, name the author and illustrator of a story and define the role of each in telling the story.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.B:Craft and Structure
Standard: ELA.K.10
Description: With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about unknown words in a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.B:Craft and Structure
Standard: ELA.K.11
Description: With prompting and support, identify the front cover, back cover, and title page of a book.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.C:Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.13
Description: With prompting and support, describe the relationship between illustrations and the story in which they appear (e.g., what moment in a story an illustration depicts).
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.C:Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.14
Description: With prompting and support, compare and contrast the adventures and experiences of characters in familiar stories.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.C:Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.15
Description: With prompting and support, describe the relationship between illustrations and the text in which they appear (e.g., what person, place, thing, or idea in the text an illustration depicts).
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.C:Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.16
Description: With prompting and support, identify the reasons an author gives to support points in a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.C:Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.17
Description: With prompting and support, identify basic similarities in and differences between two texts on the same topic (e.g., in illustrations, descriptions, or procedures).
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.D:Range of Reading and Text Complexity
Standard: ELA.K.18
Description: Actively engage in group reading activities with purpose and understanding.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.D:Range of Reading and Text Complexity
Standard: ELA.K.19
Description: Actively engage in group reading activities with purpose and understanding.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.W:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Writing
Performance Standard: ELA.K.W.B:Production and Distribution of Writing
Standard: ELA.K.24
Description: With guidance and support from adults, respond to questions and suggestions from peers and add details to strengthen writing as needed.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.RW:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Speaking and Listening
Performance Standard: ELA.K.RW.B:Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.33
Description: Describe familiar people, places, things, and events and, with prompting and support, provide additional detail.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.RW:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Speaking and Listening
Performance Standard: ELA.K.RW.B:Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.34
Description: Add drawings or other visual displays to descriptions as desired to provide additional detail.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.RW:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Speaking and Listening
Performance Standard: ELA.K.RW.B:Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.35
Description: Speak audibly and express thoughts, feelings, and ideas clearly.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.L:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Language
Performance Standard: ELA.K.L.A:Conventions of Standard English
Standard: ELA.K.36
Description: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking. •Print many upper- and lowercase letters. •Use frequently occurring nouns and verbs. •Form regular plural nouns orally by adding /s/ or /es/ (e.g., dog, dogs; wish, wishes). •Understand and use question words (interrogatives) (e.g., who, what, where, when, why, how). •Use the most frequently occurring prepositions (e.g., to, from, in, out, on, off, for, of, by, with). •Produce and expand complete sentences in shared language activities.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.L:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Language
Performance Standard: ELA.K.L.A:Conventions of Standard English
Standard: ELA.K.37
Description: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing. •Capitalize the first word in a sentence and the pronoun I. •Recognize and name end punctuation. •Write a letter or letters for most consonant and short-vowel sounds (phonemes). •Spell simple words phonetically, drawing on knowledge of sound-letter relationships.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.L:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Language
Performance Standard: ELA.K.L.C:Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
Standard: ELA.K.39
Description: Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on kindergarten reading and content. •Identify new meanings for familiar words and apply them accurately (e.g., knowing duck is a bird and learning the verb to duck). •Introduce the most frequently occurring inflections and affixes (e.g., -ed, -s, re-, un-, pre-, -ful, -less) as a clue to the meaning of an unknown word.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.L:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Language
Performance Standard: ELA.K.L.C:Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
Standard: ELA.K.40
Description: With guidance and support from adults, explore word relationships and nuances in word meanings. •Sort common objects into categories (e.g., shapes, foods) to gain a sense of the concepts the categories represent. •Demonstrate understanding of frequently occurring verbs and adjectives by relating them to their opposites (antonyms). •Identify real-life connections between words and their use (e.g., note places at school that are colorful). •Distinguish shades of meaning among verbs describing the same general action (e.g., walk, march, strut, prance) by acting out the meanings.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.L:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Language
Performance Standard: ELA.K.L.C:Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
Standard: ELA.K.41
Description: Use words and phrases acquired through conversations, reading and being read to, and responding to texts.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: Science
Strand: S.K:West Virginia Science - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: S.K.GS:General Science
Standard: S.K.GS.3
Description: use observations to describe patterns of what plants and animals (including humans) need to survive
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Science
Strand: S.K:West Virginia Science - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: S.K.GS:General Science
Standard: S.K.GS.4
Description: construct an argument supported by evidence for how plans and animals (including humans) can change the environment to meet their needs
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Science
Strand: S.K:West Virginia Science - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: S.K.GS:General Science
Standard: S.K.GS.6
Description: communicate solutions that will reduce the impact of humans on the land, water, air, and/or other living things in the local environment
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Social Studies
Strand: SS.K:West Virginia Social Studies - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: C.SS.K:Civics
Standard: SS.K.1
Description: Develop an understanding of citizenship and patriotism through a variety of experiences (e.g., appropriate behavior, sharing, taking turns, volunteering, being honest and demonstrating responsibility for materials and personal belongings).
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Social Studies
Strand: SS.K:West Virginia Social Studies - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: C.SS.K:Civics
Standard: SS.K.2
Description: Participate in role play to resolve disputes, and demonstrate tolerance and acceptance of others and their ideas.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Social Studies
Strand: SS.K:West Virginia Social Studies - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: C.SS.K:Civics
Standard: SS.K.3
Description: Investigate the need for rules in their environment, create a set of classroom rules, and explore the consequences for not following the rules.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Social Studies
Strand: SS.K:West Virginia Social Studies - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: C.SS.K:Civics
Standard: SS.K.4
Description: Investigate the leadership roles within their families, classrooms and schools and demonstrate their understanding through activities such as role play and classroom jobs.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Social Studies
Strand: SS.K:West Virginia Social Studies - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: E.SS.K:Economics
Standard: SS.K.6
Description: Discover the basic needs of people (e.g., shelter, food, clothing, etc.) and give examples of each.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Social Studies
Strand: SS.K:West Virginia Social Studies - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: E.SS.K:Economics
Standard: SS.K.7
Description: Investigate the exchange of goods and services (e.g., money, bartering, trading, etc.).
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Social Studies
Strand: SS.K:West Virginia Social Studies - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: E.SS.K:Economics
Standard: SS.K.8
Description: Distinguish between wants and needs.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Social Studies
Strand: SS.K:West Virginia Social Studies - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: H.SS.K:History
Standard: SS.K.14
Description: Illustrate personal history (e.g., first and last name, birthday, age, guardian's name, and other personal data).
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
Student Objectives
Lesson 21
Explain the difference between primary and permanent teeth
Order events in a story
Identify uppercase and lowercase Ee
Use letter-sound association for e
Read words with the phonogram _en
Read the high-frequency words the and what
Write e
Lesson 22
State some ways to keep teeth healthy
Complete a shared writing activity
Identify uppercase and lowercase Ee
Use letter-sound association for e
Read words with the phonograms _es and _et
Recognize that a questions mark is used to show a question
Write E
Lesson 23
List ways to avoid spreading colds
Use letter-sound associations for e and i
Read words with short vowels
Use letter-sound association for s
Read words with the phonogram _is
Use correct spacing when writing a word
Lesson 24
Name some ways to stay healthy
List foods that are healthy to eat
Demonstrate the best way to wash one's hands
Complete a creative writing activity
Identify uppercase and lowercase letters
Review letter-sound associations
Read words with short vowels
Review all high-frequency words
Write a sentence
Lesson 25
Identify details in pictures
Read a simple story
Distinguish fantasy from realistic fiction
Lessons
Lesson 21: To the Dentist
Lesson 22: Healthy Teeth
Lesson 23: To the Doctor
Lesson 24: Keeping Healthy
Lesson 25: Wet!
Learning Center - Tooth Match
Snack of the Week - Smiling Snack
Show and Tell - Share a story about losing a tooth or a special dentist or doctor
Science
Teeth
Two Sets of Teeth
Teeth Model
Smile and Cheese Experiment
Take Care of Your Teeth
Veggie Taste
To the Doctor
Healthy Habits
Language Arts
Phonics and English Skills
Letter Recognition
Word Families
High Frequency Words
Handwriting
Phonics
Phonics Practice - The Hen
Phonics Practice - Sit Here
Phonics Game: Sneezing Sounds
Grammar
Proper Nouns
Final s
Punctuation
Question Mark
Activities
Thumbs Up
Choose a Word
Story and Rhyme Time
See teacher guide for suggested books
Write Now!
Write Now! pages 24-28
Arts and Crafts
Smile
Tooth Paths
Catch a Sneeze
Tooth Puppet
Motor Skills
Catch a Cold
Shiny Tooth
The Wiggle Game
Exercises
Picking Up a Letter
Sing a Song
I Am Healthy
The Mulberry Bush (wash hands, brush teeth)
Heritage Studies
Community Helper Riddles
Let's Read
Phonics and Reading Focus
Biblical Integration Concepts
God is great, and God is good
God created me and all things
The Bible is God's Word, and it is true
I learn in order to serve God and others
Biblical Integration Strategies
Tell the story of how Jesus raised the little girl back to life (Matthew 9:23-26)
Explain that Jesus is the great Physician
Tell the students God's promises of what heaven will be like forever (Revelation 21:1-4)
Utilize stations within the classroom
Differentiate reading instruction
Assign practice work text pages
Daily Review
Use Rhymes and Songs to practice and help students remember
Use Rhyme Motions
Discuss the jobs of community helpers
Bring in community helpers to work with students
Set up Field trips to various places in the community
Unit 2: Bookshelf Friends / Week 6: The Bible and Hymns
(updated 11/15/23)
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Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.ELF:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Early Learning Foundations
Performance Standard: ELA.K.ELF.A:Fluency
Standard: ELA.K.I
Description: Read emergent-reader texts with purpose and understanding.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.ELF:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Early Learning Foundations
Performance Standard: ELA.K.ELF.B:Phonics and Word Recognition
Standard: ELA.K.II
Description: Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words. •Demonstrate basic knowledge of one-to-one letter-sound correspondences by producing the primary or many of the most frequent sound for each consonant. •Associate the long and short sounds with common spellings (graphemes) for the five major vowels. •Read common high-frequency words by sight (e.g., the, of, to, you, she, my, is, are, do, does). •Distinguish between similarly spelled words by identifying the sounds of the letters that differ.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.ELF:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Early Learning Foundations
Performance Standard: ELA.K.ELF.C:Handwriting
Standard: ELA.K.III
Description: Print upper- and lowercase letters
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.ELF:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Early Learning Foundations
Description: Demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds (phonemes). •Recognize and produce rhyming words. •Count, pronounce, blend, and segment syllables in spoken words. •Blend and segment onsets and rimes of single-syllable spoken words. •Isolate and pronounce the initial, medial vowel, and final sounds (phonemes) in three-phoneme (consonant-vowel-consonant, or CVC) words. (This does not include CVCs ending with /l/, /r/, or /x/.) •Add or substitute individual sounds (phonemes) in simple, one-syllable words to make new words.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.ELF:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Early Learning Foundations
Performance Standard: ELA.K.ELF.E:Print concepts
Standard: ELA.K.V
Description: Demonstrate understanding of the organization and basic features of print. •Follow words from left to right, top to bottom, and page by page. •Recognize that spoken words are represented in written language by specific sequences of letters. •Understand that words are separated by spaces in print. •Recognize and name all upper- and lowercase letters of the alphabet.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.A:Key Ideas and Details
Standard: ELA.K.1
Description: With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.A:Key Ideas and Details
Standard: ELA.K.2
Description: With prompting and support, retell familiar stories, including key details.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.A:Key Ideas and Details
Standard: ELA.K.3
Description: With prompting and support, identify characters, settings, and major events in a story.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.A:Key Ideas and Details
Standard: ELA.K.4
Description: With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.A:Key Ideas and Details
Standard: ELA.K.5
Description: With prompting and support, identify the main topic and retell key details of a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.A:Key Ideas and Details
Standard: ELA.K.6
Description: With prompting and support, describe the connection between two individuals, events, ideas, or pieces of information in a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.B:Craft and Structure
Standard: ELA.K.7
Description: With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about unknown words in a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.B:Craft and Structure
Standard: ELA.K.8
Description: With prompting and support, recognize common types of texts (e.g., storybooks, poems).
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.B:Craft and Structure
Standard: ELA.K.9
Description: With prompting and support, name the author and illustrator of a story and define the role of each in telling the story.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.B:Craft and Structure
Standard: ELA.K.10
Description: With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about unknown words in a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.B:Craft and Structure
Standard: ELA.K.11
Description: With prompting and support, identify the front cover, back cover, and title page of a book.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.B:Craft and Structure
Standard: ELA.K.12
Description: With prompting and support, name the author and illustrator of a text and define the role of each in presenting the ideas or information in a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.C:Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.13
Description: With prompting and support, describe the relationship between illustrations and the story in which they appear (e.g., what moment in a story an illustration depicts).
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.C:Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.14
Description: With prompting and support, compare and contrast the adventures and experiences of characters in familiar stories.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.C:Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.15
Description: With prompting and support, describe the relationship between illustrations and the text in which they appear (e.g., what person, place, thing, or idea in the text an illustration depicts).
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.C:Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.16
Description: With prompting and support, identify the reasons an author gives to support points in a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.D:Range of Reading and Text Complexity
Standard: ELA.K.18
Description: Actively engage in group reading activities with purpose and understanding.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.D:Range of Reading and Text Complexity
Standard: ELA.K.19
Description: Actively engage in group reading activities with purpose and understanding.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.W:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Writing
Performance Standard: ELA.K.W.A:Text Types and Purposes
Standard: ELA.K.20
Description: Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to compose opinion pieces in which they tell a reader the topic or the name of the book they are writing about and state an opinion or preference about the topic or book (e.g., My favorite book is . . .).
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.W:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Writing
Performance Standard: ELA.K.W.A:Text Types and Purposes
Standard: ELA.K.21
Description: Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to compose informative/explanatory texts in which they name what they are writing about and supply some information about the topic.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.W:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Writing
Performance Standard: ELA.K.W.B:Production and Distribution of Writing
Standard: ELA.K.24
Description: With guidance and support from adults, respond to questions and suggestions from peers and add details to strengthen writing as needed.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.W:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Writing
Performance Standard: ELA.K.W.C:Research to Build and Present Knowledge
Standard: ELA.K.27
Description: With guidance and support from adults, recall information from experiences or gather information from provided sources to answer a question.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.RW:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Speaking and Listening
Performance Standard: ELA.K.RW.A:Comprehension and Collaboration
Standard: ELA.K.30
Description: Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about kindergarten topics and texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups. •Follow agreed-upon rules for discussions (e.g., listening to others and taking turns speaking about the topics and texts under discussion). •Continue a conversation through multiple exchanges.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.RW:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Speaking and Listening
Performance Standard: ELA.K.RW.A:Comprehension and Collaboration
Standard: ELA.K.31
Description: Confirm understanding of a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media by asking and answering questions about key details and requesting clarification if something is not understood.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.RW:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Speaking and Listening
Performance Standard: ELA.K.RW.A:Comprehension and Collaboration
Standard: ELA.K.32
Description: Ask and answer questions in order to seek help, get information, or clarify something that is not understood.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.RW:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Speaking and Listening
Performance Standard: ELA.K.RW.B:Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.33
Description: Describe familiar people, places, things, and events and, with prompting and support, provide additional detail.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.RW:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Speaking and Listening
Performance Standard: ELA.K.RW.B:Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.34
Description: Add drawings or other visual displays to descriptions as desired to provide additional detail.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.RW:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Speaking and Listening
Performance Standard: ELA.K.RW.B:Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.35
Description: Speak audibly and express thoughts, feelings, and ideas clearly.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.L:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Language
Performance Standard: ELA.K.L.A:Conventions of Standard English
Standard: ELA.K.36
Description: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking. •Print many upper- and lowercase letters. •Use frequently occurring nouns and verbs. •Form regular plural nouns orally by adding /s/ or /es/ (e.g., dog, dogs; wish, wishes). •Understand and use question words (interrogatives) (e.g., who, what, where, when, why, how). •Use the most frequently occurring prepositions (e.g., to, from, in, out, on, off, for, of, by, with). •Produce and expand complete sentences in shared language activities.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.L:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Language
Performance Standard: ELA.K.L.A:Conventions of Standard English
Standard: ELA.K.37
Description: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing. •Capitalize the first word in a sentence and the pronoun I. •Recognize and name end punctuation. •Write a letter or letters for most consonant and short-vowel sounds (phonemes). •Spell simple words phonetically, drawing on knowledge of sound-letter relationships.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.L:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Language
Performance Standard: ELA.K.L.C:Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
Standard: ELA.K.39
Description: Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on kindergarten reading and content. •Identify new meanings for familiar words and apply them accurately (e.g., knowing duck is a bird and learning the verb to duck). •Introduce the most frequently occurring inflections and affixes (e.g., -ed, -s, re-, un-, pre-, -ful, -less) as a clue to the meaning of an unknown word.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.L:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Language
Performance Standard: ELA.K.L.C:Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
Standard: ELA.K.40
Description: With guidance and support from adults, explore word relationships and nuances in word meanings. •Sort common objects into categories (e.g., shapes, foods) to gain a sense of the concepts the categories represent. •Demonstrate understanding of frequently occurring verbs and adjectives by relating them to their opposites (antonyms). •Identify real-life connections between words and their use (e.g., note places at school that are colorful). •Distinguish shades of meaning among verbs describing the same general action (e.g., walk, march, strut, prance) by acting out the meanings.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.L:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Language
Performance Standard: ELA.K.L.C:Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
Standard: ELA.K.41
Description: Use words and phrases acquired through conversations, reading and being read to, and responding to texts.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: Science
Strand: S.K:West Virginia Science - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: S.K.GS:General Science
Standard: S.K.GS.4
Description: construct an argument supported by evidence for how plans and animals (including humans) can change the environment to meet their needs
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Science
Strand: S.K:West Virginia Science - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: S.K.GS:General Science
Standard: S.K.GS.5
Description: use a model to represent the relationship between the needs of different plants or animals (including humans) and the places they live
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Social Studies
Strand: SS.K:West Virginia Social Studies - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: E.SS.K:Economics
Standard: SS.K.5
Description: Investigate occupations within the school and local community.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Social Studies
Strand: SS.K:West Virginia Social Studies - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: E.SS.K:Economics
Standard: SS.K.6
Description: Discover the basic needs of people (e.g., shelter, food, clothing, etc.) and give examples of each.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Social Studies
Strand: SS.K:West Virginia Social Studies - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: E.SS.K:Economics
Standard: SS.K.8
Description: Distinguish between wants and needs.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Social Studies
Strand: SS.K:West Virginia Social Studies - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: H.SS.K:History
Standard: SS.K.14
Description: Illustrate personal history (e.g., first and last name, birthday, age, guardian's name, and other personal data).
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Social Studies
Strand: SS.K:West Virginia Social Studies - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: H.SS.K:History
Standard: SS.K.15
Description: Explore the history of the school and give examples of significant sites and people (e.g., principals, secretaries, teachers, custodians, etc.).
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Social Studies
Strand: SS.K:West Virginia Social Studies - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: H.SS.K:History
Standard: SS.K.16
Description: Investigate the past and explore the differences in other people, times and cultures through stories of people, heroes, pictures, songs, holidays, customs, traditions or legends.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Social Studies
Strand: SS.K:West Virginia Social Studies - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: H.SS.K:History
Standard: SS.K.17
Description: Explore time, places, people and events in relationship to student's own life (e.g., family trees, pictures, stories, etc.).
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
Student Objectives
Lesson 26
Explain that the Bible is a special book
Identify parts of the Bible
List ways to reuse Bibles
Explain the importance of learning to read in order to read the Bible
identify uppercase and lowercase Bb
Use letter-sounds association for b
Read the high-frequency words love and my
Identify the correct use of the exclamation point
Write b
Lesson 27
Explain that the Bible was written by holy men of God
State that God breathed out the words of the Bible by His Holy Spirit
Dictate or write a word or phrase to complete a creative-writing activity
Identify uppercase and lowercase Bb
Use letter-sound association for b
Read words with the phonograms _eb and _ib
Read high-frequency words
Write B
Lesson 28
State that the Bible tells one big story
Summarize the Bible with the words Creation, Fall, and Redemption
Explain the key aspects of Creation, the Fall, and Redemption
Identify uppercase and lowercase Pp
Use letter-sound association for p
Read words with the phonogram _ip
Write p
Lesson 29
Identify the purposes for singing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs
List different types of songs sung in church
Identify an example of a songbook in the Bible
Compare and contrast a psalm with a hymn
Dictate a new verse to a familiar song
Identify uppercase and lowercase Pp
Use letter-sound association for p
Write P
Lesson 30
Draw conclusions from picture interpretation and text
Read orally to communicate the author's mesage
Use proper inflection when reading an exclamatory sentence
Lessons
Lesson 26: What Is the Bible?
Lesson 27: Who Wrote the Bible?
Lesson 28: The Bible's Story
Lesson 29: Songs and Hymns
Lesson 30: My Pet
Learning Center - Bible Dictionary
Show and Tell - Encourage students to bring their Bibles in to share
Snack of the Week -Loaves and Fishes Snack Mix
Heritage Studies
Introduce the Bible
Writing the Bible
Composition
The Bible's Story
Creation, Fall, and Redemption
Psalms
Language Arts
Phonics and English Skills
Letter Recognition
Read Word Families
Punctuation
Exclamation Point
Handwriting
Phonics Story
In the Bin
My Web
Phonics Game:
B is Best!
Phonics Fun
Collect the
Letter Buddies
Activities
Tic-Tac-Toe
I Spy
Sentence Roundup
Popcorn p
P is for Pancake
Around the World
Arts and Crafts
Bookmark
Word Rubbings
The Days of Creation
My Favorite Hymn
P is Purple; B is Blue
Write Now!
Write Now! page 29-33
Sing a Song
Familiar hymns, choruses, or songs about the Bible
Time to Write
Motor Skills
Words in Action
Hot Potato
Walk like an Animal
Play an Instrument
Biblical Integration Concepts
God is great, and God is good
God created me and all things
The Bible is God's Word, and it is true
I learn in order to serve God and others
Biblical Integration Strategies
Remind the students that the Bible teaches us how to live
Read several of the psalms that David wrote; explain to the students that David wrote the words that God guided him to write
Read the creation verses in Genesis 1, emphasizing that God spoke into being everything that He created
Tell the account of Jericho's walls tumbling down (Joshua 6), emphasizing the part the trumpets played in the account
Invite students into the excitement of learning by providing a variety of interesting activities
Use colorful pictures to reinforce each letter and sound
Have students sing a phonics song as they learn each new letter-sound association
Provide various learning centers
Utilize games and motor activities as they practice and review sounds and words
Theme activities and snacks to the objectives of the week
Post the 4 Biblical Integration Concepts around the room and refer to them daily
Organize classroom based upon a specific daily schedule
Post daily schedule
Teach daily routines, e.g., walking in line
Group for differentiated instruction
Set aside time and classroom areas for group instruction
Assign worktext and phonic card practice
Use Review for You and Checkup Stations to assess student progress
Build comprehension skills by having students ask and answer questions
Discuss questions during the silent reading time
Work daily on oral reading fluency
Utilize Visuals and Instructional Aids
Encourage partner reading
Unit 2: Bookshelf Friends / Week 7: The Library
(updated 11/16/23)
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.ELF:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Early Learning Foundations
Performance Standard: ELA.K.ELF.A:Fluency
Standard: ELA.K.I
Description: Read emergent-reader texts with purpose and understanding.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.ELF:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Early Learning Foundations
Performance Standard: ELA.K.ELF.B:Phonics and Word Recognition
Standard: ELA.K.II
Description: Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words. •Demonstrate basic knowledge of one-to-one letter-sound correspondences by producing the primary or many of the most frequent sound for each consonant. •Associate the long and short sounds with common spellings (graphemes) for the five major vowels. •Read common high-frequency words by sight (e.g., the, of, to, you, she, my, is, are, do, does). •Distinguish between similarly spelled words by identifying the sounds of the letters that differ.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.ELF:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Early Learning Foundations
Performance Standard: ELA.K.ELF.C:Handwriting
Standard: ELA.K.III
Description: Print upper- and lowercase letters
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.ELF:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Early Learning Foundations
Description: Demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds (phonemes). •Recognize and produce rhyming words. •Count, pronounce, blend, and segment syllables in spoken words. •Blend and segment onsets and rimes of single-syllable spoken words. •Isolate and pronounce the initial, medial vowel, and final sounds (phonemes) in three-phoneme (consonant-vowel-consonant, or CVC) words. (This does not include CVCs ending with /l/, /r/, or /x/.) •Add or substitute individual sounds (phonemes) in simple, one-syllable words to make new words.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.ELF:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Early Learning Foundations
Performance Standard: ELA.K.ELF.E:Print concepts
Standard: ELA.K.V
Description: Demonstrate understanding of the organization and basic features of print. •Follow words from left to right, top to bottom, and page by page. •Recognize that spoken words are represented in written language by specific sequences of letters. •Understand that words are separated by spaces in print. •Recognize and name all upper- and lowercase letters of the alphabet.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.A:Key Ideas and Details
Standard: ELA.K.1
Description: With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.A:Key Ideas and Details
Standard: ELA.K.2
Description: With prompting and support, retell familiar stories, including key details.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.A:Key Ideas and Details
Standard: ELA.K.3
Description: With prompting and support, identify characters, settings, and major events in a story.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.A:Key Ideas and Details
Standard: ELA.K.4
Description: With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.A:Key Ideas and Details
Standard: ELA.K.5
Description: With prompting and support, identify the main topic and retell key details of a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.B:Craft and Structure
Standard: ELA.K.7
Description: With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about unknown words in a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.B:Craft and Structure
Standard: ELA.K.8
Description: With prompting and support, recognize common types of texts (e.g., storybooks, poems).
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.B:Craft and Structure
Standard: ELA.K.9
Description: With prompting and support, name the author and illustrator of a story and define the role of each in telling the story.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.B:Craft and Structure
Standard: ELA.K.10
Description: With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about unknown words in a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.B:Craft and Structure
Standard: ELA.K.12
Description: With prompting and support, name the author and illustrator of a text and define the role of each in presenting the ideas or information in a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.C:Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.13
Description: With prompting and support, describe the relationship between illustrations and the story in which they appear (e.g., what moment in a story an illustration depicts).
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.C:Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.14
Description: With prompting and support, compare and contrast the adventures and experiences of characters in familiar stories.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.C:Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.15
Description: With prompting and support, describe the relationship between illustrations and the text in which they appear (e.g., what person, place, thing, or idea in the text an illustration depicts).
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.D:Range of Reading and Text Complexity
Standard: ELA.K.18
Description: Actively engage in group reading activities with purpose and understanding.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.D:Range of Reading and Text Complexity
Standard: ELA.K.19
Description: Actively engage in group reading activities with purpose and understanding.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.W:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Writing
Performance Standard: ELA.K.W.A:Text Types and Purposes
Standard: ELA.K.21
Description: Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to compose informative/explanatory texts in which they name what they are writing about and supply some information about the topic.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.W:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Writing
Performance Standard: ELA.K.W.A:Text Types and Purposes
Standard: ELA.K.22
Description: Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to narrate a single event or several loosely linked events, tell about the events in the order in which they occurred, and provide a reaction to what happened.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.RW:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Speaking and Listening
Performance Standard: ELA.K.RW.A:Comprehension and Collaboration
Standard: ELA.K.30
Description: Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about kindergarten topics and texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups. •Follow agreed-upon rules for discussions (e.g., listening to others and taking turns speaking about the topics and texts under discussion). •Continue a conversation through multiple exchanges.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.RW:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Speaking and Listening
Performance Standard: ELA.K.RW.A:Comprehension and Collaboration
Standard: ELA.K.31
Description: Confirm understanding of a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media by asking and answering questions about key details and requesting clarification if something is not understood.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.RW:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Speaking and Listening
Performance Standard: ELA.K.RW.A:Comprehension and Collaboration
Standard: ELA.K.32
Description: Ask and answer questions in order to seek help, get information, or clarify something that is not understood.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.RW:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Speaking and Listening
Performance Standard: ELA.K.RW.B:Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.33
Description: Describe familiar people, places, things, and events and, with prompting and support, provide additional detail.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.RW:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Speaking and Listening
Performance Standard: ELA.K.RW.B:Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.34
Description: Add drawings or other visual displays to descriptions as desired to provide additional detail.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.RW:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Speaking and Listening
Performance Standard: ELA.K.RW.B:Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.35
Description: Speak audibly and express thoughts, feelings, and ideas clearly.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.L:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Language
Performance Standard: ELA.K.L.A:Conventions of Standard English
Standard: ELA.K.36
Description: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking. •Print many upper- and lowercase letters. •Use frequently occurring nouns and verbs. •Form regular plural nouns orally by adding /s/ or /es/ (e.g., dog, dogs; wish, wishes). •Understand and use question words (interrogatives) (e.g., who, what, where, when, why, how). •Use the most frequently occurring prepositions (e.g., to, from, in, out, on, off, for, of, by, with). •Produce and expand complete sentences in shared language activities.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.L:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Language
Performance Standard: ELA.K.L.A:Conventions of Standard English
Standard: ELA.K.37
Description: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing. •Capitalize the first word in a sentence and the pronoun I. •Recognize and name end punctuation. •Write a letter or letters for most consonant and short-vowel sounds (phonemes). •Spell simple words phonetically, drawing on knowledge of sound-letter relationships.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.L:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Language
Performance Standard: ELA.K.L.C:Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
Standard: ELA.K.39
Description: Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on kindergarten reading and content. •Identify new meanings for familiar words and apply them accurately (e.g., knowing duck is a bird and learning the verb to duck). •Introduce the most frequently occurring inflections and affixes (e.g., -ed, -s, re-, un-, pre-, -ful, -less) as a clue to the meaning of an unknown word.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.L:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Language
Performance Standard: ELA.K.L.C:Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
Standard: ELA.K.40
Description: With guidance and support from adults, explore word relationships and nuances in word meanings. •Sort common objects into categories (e.g., shapes, foods) to gain a sense of the concepts the categories represent. •Demonstrate understanding of frequently occurring verbs and adjectives by relating them to their opposites (antonyms). •Identify real-life connections between words and their use (e.g., note places at school that are colorful). •Distinguish shades of meaning among verbs describing the same general action (e.g., walk, march, strut, prance) by acting out the meanings.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.L:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Language
Performance Standard: ELA.K.L.C:Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
Standard: ELA.K.41
Description: Use words and phrases acquired through conversations, reading and being read to, and responding to texts.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: Science
Strand: S.K:West Virginia Science - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: S.K.GS:General Science
Standard: S.K.GS.6
Description: communicate solutions that will reduce the impact of humans on the land, water, air, and/or other living things in the local environment
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Science
Strand: S.K:West Virginia Science - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: S.K.GS:General Science
Standard: S.K.GS.7
Description: use and share observations of local weather conditions to describe patterns over time
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Science
Strand: S.K:West Virginia Science - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: S.K.GS:General Science
Standard: S.K.GS.8
Description: ask questions to obtain information about the purpose of weather forecasting to prepare for, and respond to, severe weather
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Science
Strand: S.K:West Virginia Science - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: S.K.GS:General Science
Standard: S.K.GS.9
Description: make observation to determine the effect of sunlight on Earth's surface
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Social Studies
Strand: SS.K:West Virginia Social Studies - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: C.SS.K:Civics
Standard: SS.K.1
Description: Develop an understanding of citizenship and patriotism through a variety of experiences (e.g., appropriate behavior, sharing, taking turns, volunteering, being honest and demonstrating responsibility for materials and personal belongings).
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Social Studies
Strand: SS.K:West Virginia Social Studies - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: C.SS.K:Civics
Standard: SS.K.2
Description: Participate in role play to resolve disputes, and demonstrate tolerance and acceptance of others and their ideas.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Social Studies
Strand: SS.K:West Virginia Social Studies - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: C.SS.K:Civics
Standard: SS.K.3
Description: Investigate the need for rules in their environment, create a set of classroom rules, and explore the consequences for not following the rules.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Social Studies
Strand: SS.K:West Virginia Social Studies - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: C.SS.K:Civics
Standard: SS.K.4
Description: Investigate the leadership roles within their families, classrooms and schools and demonstrate their understanding through activities such as role play and classroom jobs.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Social Studies
Strand: SS.K:West Virginia Social Studies - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: E.SS.K:Economics
Standard: SS.K.5
Description: Investigate occupations within the school and local community.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Social Studies
Strand: SS.K:West Virginia Social Studies - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: E.SS.K:Economics
Standard: SS.K.6
Description: Discover the basic needs of people (e.g., shelter, food, clothing, etc.) and give examples of each.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Social Studies
Strand: SS.K:West Virginia Social Studies - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: E.SS.K:Economics
Standard: SS.K.8
Description: Distinguish between wants and needs.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
Student Objectives
Lesson 31
State the purpose of a library
List types of books that can be found in a library
Distinguish fiction from nonfiction
Explain how to check out books at the library
Identify uppercase and lowercase Uu
Use letter-sound association for u /u/
Read words with the phonograms _un and _up
Read high-frequency words pretty and says
Identify the correct use of quotation marks
Write u
Lesson 32
Review the difference between left and right
State that Story Time is a function of the library
Participate in a Story Time session
Form an opinion about a story
Dictate or draw to compose an opinion piece about a story
Share a composition with a peer
Identify uppercase and lowercase Uu
Use letter-sound association for u /u/
Read words with the phonograms _ub, _us, and _ut
Write U
Lesson 33
List things to do at the library
Identify the purpose of a computer
Describe the purpose of a browser
Identify uppercase and lowercase Kk
Use letter-sound association for k /k/
Read words with initial k
Write k
Lesson 34
State that magazines for children and adults can be found at the library
Identify the main topic of a text
Complete a creative-writing activity
Identify uppercase and lowercase Kk
Use letter-sound association for k /k/
Write K
Lesson 35
Make predictions based on illustrations
Recall the meaning of quotation marks
Distinguish fantasy from realistic fiction
Lessons
Lesson 31: Books at the Library
Lesson 32: Story Time at the Library
Lesson 33: Things to Do at the Library
Lesson 34: Magazines at the Library
Lesson 35: The Bus
Learning Center - Tell Me a Story
Snack of the Week - Graham-Cracker Book Cover
Show and Tell - Encourage the students to bring their favorite book
Heritage Studies
To the Library
Language Arts
Phonics and English Skills
Letter Recognition
Sing Songs
Word Families
High-Frequency Words
Story Time
Punctuation
Quotation Marks
Handwriting
Phonics
Phonics Practice: The Sun
Phonics Practice: The Pup
Phonics Fun: Curtsy and Bow
Phonics Fun: Word Family Tic-Tac-Toe
Activities
Hopscotch Goes Left and Right
Tic-Tac-Toe
Bookmark Fun
Children's Magazines
Arts and Crafts
Paper-Plate Spider Web
Egg Painting
Koala
Bookmarks
Science
Classifying Spiders
Motor Skills
Spider Races
Paint-Bag Writing
Above and Under
Over and Under
Write Now!
Write Now! pp. 34-38
Sing a Song
Itsy Bitsy Spider
Left Hand, Right Hand
Biblical Integration Concepts
God is great, and God is good
God created me and all things
The Bible is God's Word, and it is true
I learn in order to serve God and others
Biblical Integration Strategies
Explain how Jesus used parables to teach things to people; it is good to use made-up stories if they can help teach important truths
Read 2 Timonthy 4:13 and point out that Paul really wanted the books that he had left behind; explain to the students that the more time they spend with books, the more important books will become to them
Set the stage for comprehension-centered reading by asking questions
Help students identify the higher-order thinking questions by a symbol of a gear beside them
Use the colored pictures to help foster comprehension
Use composition activities to promote the reading/writing connection
Help students develop left-to right eye progression during reading and handwriting
Group students for differentiated learning
Establish routines that create smooth transitions
Use colorful pictures, puppets, and charts
Use Review for You and Let's Check pages to assess phonics progress
Unit 2: Bookshelf Friends / Week 8: Nursery Rhymes
(updated 12/31/23)
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.ELF:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Early Learning Foundations
Performance Standard: ELA.K.ELF.A:Fluency
Standard: ELA.K.I
Description: Read emergent-reader texts with purpose and understanding.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.ELF:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Early Learning Foundations
Description: Demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds (phonemes). •Recognize and produce rhyming words. •Count, pronounce, blend, and segment syllables in spoken words. •Blend and segment onsets and rimes of single-syllable spoken words. •Isolate and pronounce the initial, medial vowel, and final sounds (phonemes) in three-phoneme (consonant-vowel-consonant, or CVC) words. (This does not include CVCs ending with /l/, /r/, or /x/.) •Add or substitute individual sounds (phonemes) in simple, one-syllable words to make new words.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.ELF:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Early Learning Foundations
Performance Standard: ELA.K.ELF.B:Phonics and Word Recognition
Standard: ELA.K.II
Description: Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words. •Demonstrate basic knowledge of one-to-one letter-sound correspondences by producing the primary or many of the most frequent sound for each consonant. •Associate the long and short sounds with common spellings (graphemes) for the five major vowels. •Read common high-frequency words by sight (e.g., the, of, to, you, she, my, is, are, do, does). •Distinguish between similarly spelled words by identifying the sounds of the letters that differ.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.ELF:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Early Learning Foundations
Performance Standard: ELA.K.ELF.C:Handwriting
Standard: ELA.K.III
Description: Print upper- and lowercase letters
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.ELF:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Early Learning Foundations
Performance Standard: ELA.K.ELF.E:Print concepts
Standard: ELA.K.V
Description: Demonstrate understanding of the organization and basic features of print. •Follow words from left to right, top to bottom, and page by page. •Recognize that spoken words are represented in written language by specific sequences of letters. •Understand that words are separated by spaces in print. •Recognize and name all upper- and lowercase letters of the alphabet.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.A:Key Ideas and Details
Standard: ELA.K.1
Description: With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.A:Key Ideas and Details
Standard: ELA.K.2
Description: With prompting and support, retell familiar stories, including key details.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.A:Key Ideas and Details
Standard: ELA.K.3
Description: With prompting and support, identify characters, settings, and major events in a story.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.A:Key Ideas and Details
Standard: ELA.K.4
Description: With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.A:Key Ideas and Details
Standard: ELA.K.5
Description: With prompting and support, identify the main topic and retell key details of a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.B:Craft and Structure
Standard: ELA.K.7
Description: With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about unknown words in a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.B:Craft and Structure
Standard: ELA.K.8
Description: With prompting and support, recognize common types of texts (e.g., storybooks, poems).
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.B:Craft and Structure
Standard: ELA.K.9
Description: With prompting and support, name the author and illustrator of a story and define the role of each in telling the story.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.B:Craft and Structure
Standard: ELA.K.10
Description: With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about unknown words in a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.B:Craft and Structure
Standard: ELA.K.11
Description: With prompting and support, identify the front cover, back cover, and title page of a book.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.B:Craft and Structure
Standard: ELA.K.12
Description: With prompting and support, name the author and illustrator of a text and define the role of each in presenting the ideas or information in a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.C:Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.13
Description: With prompting and support, describe the relationship between illustrations and the story in which they appear (e.g., what moment in a story an illustration depicts).
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.C:Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.14
Description: With prompting and support, compare and contrast the adventures and experiences of characters in familiar stories.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.D:Range of Reading and Text Complexity
Standard: ELA.K.18
Description: Actively engage in group reading activities with purpose and understanding.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.D:Range of Reading and Text Complexity
Standard: ELA.K.19
Description: Actively engage in group reading activities with purpose and understanding.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.RW:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Speaking and Listening
Performance Standard: ELA.K.RW.A:Comprehension and Collaboration
Standard: ELA.K.30
Description: Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about kindergarten topics and texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups. •Follow agreed-upon rules for discussions (e.g., listening to others and taking turns speaking about the topics and texts under discussion). •Continue a conversation through multiple exchanges.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.RW:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Speaking and Listening
Performance Standard: ELA.K.RW.A:Comprehension and Collaboration
Standard: ELA.K.31
Description: Confirm understanding of a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media by asking and answering questions about key details and requesting clarification if something is not understood.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.RW:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Speaking and Listening
Performance Standard: ELA.K.RW.A:Comprehension and Collaboration
Standard: ELA.K.32
Description: Ask and answer questions in order to seek help, get information, or clarify something that is not understood.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.RW:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Speaking and Listening
Performance Standard: ELA.K.RW.B:Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.33
Description: Describe familiar people, places, things, and events and, with prompting and support, provide additional detail.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.RW:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Speaking and Listening
Performance Standard: ELA.K.RW.B:Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.35
Description: Speak audibly and express thoughts, feelings, and ideas clearly.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.L:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Language
Performance Standard: ELA.K.L.A:Conventions of Standard English
Standard: ELA.K.36
Description: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking. •Print many upper- and lowercase letters. •Use frequently occurring nouns and verbs. •Form regular plural nouns orally by adding /s/ or /es/ (e.g., dog, dogs; wish, wishes). •Understand and use question words (interrogatives) (e.g., who, what, where, when, why, how). •Use the most frequently occurring prepositions (e.g., to, from, in, out, on, off, for, of, by, with). •Produce and expand complete sentences in shared language activities.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.L:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Language
Performance Standard: ELA.K.L.A:Conventions of Standard English
Standard: ELA.K.37
Description: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing. •Capitalize the first word in a sentence and the pronoun I. •Recognize and name end punctuation. •Write a letter or letters for most consonant and short-vowel sounds (phonemes). •Spell simple words phonetically, drawing on knowledge of sound-letter relationships.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.L:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Language
Performance Standard: ELA.K.L.C:Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
Standard: ELA.K.40
Description: With guidance and support from adults, explore word relationships and nuances in word meanings. •Sort common objects into categories (e.g., shapes, foods) to gain a sense of the concepts the categories represent. •Demonstrate understanding of frequently occurring verbs and adjectives by relating them to their opposites (antonyms). •Identify real-life connections between words and their use (e.g., note places at school that are colorful). •Distinguish shades of meaning among verbs describing the same general action (e.g., walk, march, strut, prance) by acting out the meanings.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.L:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Language
Performance Standard: ELA.K.L.C:Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
Standard: ELA.K.41
Description: Use words and phrases acquired through conversations, reading and being read to, and responding to texts.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: Social Studies
Strand: SS.K:West Virginia Social Studies - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: C.SS.K:Civics
Standard: SS.K.1
Description: Develop an understanding of citizenship and patriotism through a variety of experiences (e.g., appropriate behavior, sharing, taking turns, volunteering, being honest and demonstrating responsibility for materials and personal belongings).
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Social Studies
Strand: SS.K:West Virginia Social Studies - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: C.SS.K:Civics
Standard: SS.K.3
Description: Investigate the need for rules in their environment, create a set of classroom rules, and explore the consequences for not following the rules.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Social Studies
Strand: SS.K:West Virginia Social Studies - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: C.SS.K:Civics
Standard: SS.K.4
Description: Investigate the leadership roles within their families, classrooms and schools and demonstrate their understanding through activities such as role play and classroom jobs.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Social Studies
Strand: SS.K:West Virginia Social Studies - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: E.SS.K:Economics
Standard: SS.K.5
Description: Investigate occupations within the school and local community.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Social Studies
Strand: SS.K:West Virginia Social Studies - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: E.SS.K:Economics
Standard: SS.K.6
Description: Discover the basic needs of people (e.g., shelter, food, clothing, etc.) and give examples of each.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
Student Objectives
Lesson 36
Remember details in nursery rhymes
Identify the difference between a nursery rhyme and a story
State a story character's responsibilities at home
Explain how doing chores is a way to serve one's family
Identify uppercase and lowercase Cc
Use letter-sound association for c /k/
Read words with initial c
Read the high-frequency words little and new
Identify rhyming words
Write Cc
Lesson 37
Sequence events in a nursery rhyme
Distinguish between different emotions
Dictate sentences for a shared writing activity
Use letter-sound association for ck /k/
Read words with the phonograms _eck, _ick, and _uck
Write words that end in ck
Lesson 38
Classify objects using the sense of touch
Recall details from a story
Distinguish fantasy from realistic fiction
Use letter-sound association for e /e/, i /i/, and u /u/
Read words with short vowels
Write a sentence with proper spacing
Lesson 39
Identify words that rhyme
Dictate text to create a counting rhyme and complete a creative-writing activity
Read words with the phonograms _ess, _iss, and _inn
Write a phrase with proper spacing
Lesson 40
Read simple sentences
Interpret details in pictures
Draw conclusions from picture interpretations and text
Lessons
Lesson 36: Rhymes about Children
Lesson 37: Rhymes about Kings and Queens
Lesson 38
Lesson 39
Lesson 40: Tip
Learning Center - The Mitten Line
Snack of the Week - Miss Muffet's Spider
Language Arts
Phonics and English Skills
Letter Recognition
Sing the Sounds
Rhyming Words
High-Frequency Words
Handwriting
Phonics
Phonics Practice: Ken
Phonics Fun: Rhyme Time Train
Phonics Fun: Old King Cole Calls
Phonics Fun: Tic-Tac-Toe
Activities
Corn Horn
Letter Search
Memory Game
Nursery Rhyme Quiz Show
Sentence Roundup
Composition
Dress-Up Activity
Write a Story
Show and Tell - Encourage the students to either dress like a character from a nursery rhyme or to bring an item that would go with a nursery rhyme
Write Now!
Write Now! pages 39-43
Arts and Crafts
Jack's Candle
Humpty Dumpty
Many Mittens
Nursery Rhyme Numbers
Nursery Rhyme Puppets
Motor Skills
Nursery Rhyme Actions
Jumping Jack
Pantomime
Bo Peep Leader
Three-Kitten Bend
Left and Right
Sing a Song
The King Is on His Throne
Sing animal nursery rhymes
Ten Little Kittens
Literature
Introduce Animal Rhymes
Introduce Counting Rhymes
Biblical Integration Concepts
God is great, and God is good
God created me and all things
The Bible is God's Word, and it is true
I learn in order to serve God and others
Biblical Integration Strategies
Tell the story of Saul's becoming king (1 Samuel 10)
Provide stories about Christian families
Have students predict the ending of the story to help create interest in the story
Discussion questions during the silent-reading time are important to implement
Teach vocabulary in both phonics-related practice and sight words
Use a Pre-Cursive font found at the beginning reading level
Help students develop silent and oral reading habits that further fluency
Encourage parent participation in the learning process
Encourage partner reading
Use the reading guides as ways to help foster parental involvement
Unit 2: Bookshelf Friends / Week 9: Picture Books
(updated 11/16/23)
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.ELF:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Early Learning Foundations
Performance Standard: ELA.K.ELF.A:Fluency
Standard: ELA.K.I
Description: Read emergent-reader texts with purpose and understanding.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.ELF:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Early Learning Foundations
Performance Standard: ELA.K.ELF.B:Phonics and Word Recognition
Standard: ELA.K.II
Description: Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words. •Demonstrate basic knowledge of one-to-one letter-sound correspondences by producing the primary or many of the most frequent sound for each consonant. •Associate the long and short sounds with common spellings (graphemes) for the five major vowels. •Read common high-frequency words by sight (e.g., the, of, to, you, she, my, is, are, do, does). •Distinguish between similarly spelled words by identifying the sounds of the letters that differ.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.ELF:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Early Learning Foundations
Performance Standard: ELA.K.ELF.C:Handwriting
Standard: ELA.K.III
Description: Print upper- and lowercase letters
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.ELF:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Early Learning Foundations
Description: Demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds (phonemes). •Recognize and produce rhyming words. •Count, pronounce, blend, and segment syllables in spoken words. •Blend and segment onsets and rimes of single-syllable spoken words. •Isolate and pronounce the initial, medial vowel, and final sounds (phonemes) in three-phoneme (consonant-vowel-consonant, or CVC) words. (This does not include CVCs ending with /l/, /r/, or /x/.) •Add or substitute individual sounds (phonemes) in simple, one-syllable words to make new words.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.ELF:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Early Learning Foundations
Performance Standard: ELA.K.ELF.E:Print concepts
Standard: ELA.K.V
Description: Demonstrate understanding of the organization and basic features of print. •Follow words from left to right, top to bottom, and page by page. •Recognize that spoken words are represented in written language by specific sequences of letters. •Understand that words are separated by spaces in print. •Recognize and name all upper- and lowercase letters of the alphabet.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.A:Key Ideas and Details
Standard: ELA.K.1
Description: With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.A:Key Ideas and Details
Standard: ELA.K.2
Description: With prompting and support, retell familiar stories, including key details.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.A:Key Ideas and Details
Standard: ELA.K.3
Description: With prompting and support, identify characters, settings, and major events in a story.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.A:Key Ideas and Details
Standard: ELA.K.4
Description: With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.A:Key Ideas and Details
Standard: ELA.K.5
Description: With prompting and support, identify the main topic and retell key details of a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.B:Craft and Structure
Standard: ELA.K.7
Description: With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about unknown words in a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.B:Craft and Structure
Standard: ELA.K.8
Description: With prompting and support, recognize common types of texts (e.g., storybooks, poems).
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.B:Craft and Structure
Standard: ELA.K.9
Description: With prompting and support, name the author and illustrator of a story and define the role of each in telling the story.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.B:Craft and Structure
Standard: ELA.K.10
Description: With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about unknown words in a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.B:Craft and Structure
Standard: ELA.K.11
Description: With prompting and support, identify the front cover, back cover, and title page of a book.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.C:Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.13
Description: With prompting and support, describe the relationship between illustrations and the story in which they appear (e.g., what moment in a story an illustration depicts).
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.C:Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.15
Description: With prompting and support, describe the relationship between illustrations and the text in which they appear (e.g., what person, place, thing, or idea in the text an illustration depicts).
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.D:Range of Reading and Text Complexity
Standard: ELA.K.18
Description: Actively engage in group reading activities with purpose and understanding.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.D:Range of Reading and Text Complexity
Standard: ELA.K.19
Description: Actively engage in group reading activities with purpose and understanding.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.W:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Writing
Performance Standard: ELA.K.W.A:Text Types and Purposes
Standard: ELA.K.20
Description: Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to compose opinion pieces in which they tell a reader the topic or the name of the book they are writing about and state an opinion or preference about the topic or book (e.g., My favorite book is . . .).
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.W:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Writing
Performance Standard: ELA.K.W.A:Text Types and Purposes
Standard: ELA.K.21
Description: Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to compose informative/explanatory texts in which they name what they are writing about and supply some information about the topic.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.RW:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Speaking and Listening
Performance Standard: ELA.K.RW.A:Comprehension and Collaboration
Standard: ELA.K.30
Description: Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about kindergarten topics and texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups. •Follow agreed-upon rules for discussions (e.g., listening to others and taking turns speaking about the topics and texts under discussion). •Continue a conversation through multiple exchanges.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.RW:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Speaking and Listening
Performance Standard: ELA.K.RW.B:Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.35
Description: Speak audibly and express thoughts, feelings, and ideas clearly.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.L:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Language
Performance Standard: ELA.K.L.A:Conventions of Standard English
Standard: ELA.K.36
Description: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking. •Print many upper- and lowercase letters. •Use frequently occurring nouns and verbs. •Form regular plural nouns orally by adding /s/ or /es/ (e.g., dog, dogs; wish, wishes). •Understand and use question words (interrogatives) (e.g., who, what, where, when, why, how). •Use the most frequently occurring prepositions (e.g., to, from, in, out, on, off, for, of, by, with). •Produce and expand complete sentences in shared language activities.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.L:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Language
Performance Standard: ELA.K.L.A:Conventions of Standard English
Standard: ELA.K.37
Description: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing. •Capitalize the first word in a sentence and the pronoun I. •Recognize and name end punctuation. •Write a letter or letters for most consonant and short-vowel sounds (phonemes). •Spell simple words phonetically, drawing on knowledge of sound-letter relationships.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.L:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Language
Performance Standard: ELA.K.L.C:Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
Standard: ELA.K.39
Description: Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on kindergarten reading and content. •Identify new meanings for familiar words and apply them accurately (e.g., knowing duck is a bird and learning the verb to duck). •Introduce the most frequently occurring inflections and affixes (e.g., -ed, -s, re-, un-, pre-, -ful, -less) as a clue to the meaning of an unknown word.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.L:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Language
Performance Standard: ELA.K.L.C:Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
Standard: ELA.K.40
Description: With guidance and support from adults, explore word relationships and nuances in word meanings. •Sort common objects into categories (e.g., shapes, foods) to gain a sense of the concepts the categories represent. •Demonstrate understanding of frequently occurring verbs and adjectives by relating them to their opposites (antonyms). •Identify real-life connections between words and their use (e.g., note places at school that are colorful). •Distinguish shades of meaning among verbs describing the same general action (e.g., walk, march, strut, prance) by acting out the meanings.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: Social Studies
Strand: SS.K:West Virginia Social Studies - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: C.SS.K:Civics
Standard: SS.K.1
Description: Develop an understanding of citizenship and patriotism through a variety of experiences (e.g., appropriate behavior, sharing, taking turns, volunteering, being honest and demonstrating responsibility for materials and personal belongings).
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Social Studies
Strand: SS.K:West Virginia Social Studies - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: C.SS.K:Civics
Standard: SS.K.2
Description: Participate in role play to resolve disputes, and demonstrate tolerance and acceptance of others and their ideas.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Social Studies
Strand: SS.K:West Virginia Social Studies - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: C.SS.K:Civics
Standard: SS.K.3
Description: Investigate the need for rules in their environment, create a set of classroom rules, and explore the consequences for not following the rules.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Social Studies
Strand: SS.K:West Virginia Social Studies - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: C.SS.K:Civics
Standard: SS.K.4
Description: Investigate the leadership roles within their families, classrooms and schools and demonstrate their understanding through activities such as role play and classroom jobs.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
Student Objectives
Lesson 41
Explain the job of an author
Identify God as the author of Scripture
Identify uppercase and lowercase Dd
Use letter-sound association for d
Read words with the phonograms _ed and _id
Read words with initial d
Read the high-frequency word come
Write d
Lesson 42
Explain the job of an illustrator
Identify tools used by illustrators
Identify God as the Creator
List some things that God created
Create an illustration
Identify uppercase and lowercase Dd
Use letter-sound association for d
Read words with the phonogram _ud
Write D
Lesson 43
Explain what an author and illustrator do, using examples
State the importance of good writing and illustrations
Identify uppercase and lowercase Aa
Use letter-sound association for a
Read words with the phonograms _ad, _as, and _at
Identify the vowel in a short-vowel word
Write a
Lesson 44
Use letter-sound association to make an alphabet book
Explain the stages of making a book
Use letter-sound association for a
Read words with the phonograms _ab, _an, and _ann
Read words with possessive s
Write A
Lesson 45
Determine which objects sink and which float
Distinguish fantasy from realistic fiction
Read animal names
Interpret details in pictures
Lessons
Lesson 41: Authors
Lesson 42: Illustrators
Lesson 43: Peter Rabbit
Lesson 44: A Book for You
Lesson 45: In the Tub
Learning Center - Book Tent
Snack of the Week - Peter Rabbit Salad
Show and Tell -Encourage the students to bring a favorite picture book
Literature
Authors
Illustrators
An Author and an Illustrator
Language Arts
Phonics and English Skills
Letter Recognition
Sing the Sounds
Read Word Families
High-Frequency Words
Handwriting
Phonics
Phonics Practice: The Kid
Phonics Fun: Word Sort
Phonics Fun: I Spy
Phonics Fun: Sound Match
Phonics Fun: Twisty letters
Grammar
Final s
Activities
Parts of a Book
Carrot Dig
Mr. and Mrs. Short Puppets
Make a Book
Science
Peter Rabbit Taste Test
Write Now!
Write Now pages 45-48
Motor Skills
Book Relay
Painting
Bunny Hop
Match Books
Arts and Crafts
Zigzag Book
Collage
Bunny Ears
Sing a Song
Books for Me
Biblical Integration Concepts
God is great, and God is good
God created me and all things
The Bible is God's Word, and it is true
I learn in order to serve God and others
Biblical Integration Strategies
Discuss how God created our world and the beautiful things we enjoy
Explain that since God created everything, we could say that He was the artist or illustrator of the world
Use labels on pictures and diagrams
The use of instructional aid worksheets will help facilitate learning
Read aloud to students 15 minutes during the daily lesson
Help students to summarize the story
Review high-frequency words and grammar and punctuation skills daily
Before reading use the cover picture and title to invite discussion
Display the Families and Friends visuals and the Colors visual
Set up a pocket cart for use with the Phonics characters, spelling cards, etc.
Unit 2: Bookshelf Friends / Week 10: Favorite Tales
(updated 11/16/23)
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.ELF:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Early Learning Foundations
Performance Standard: ELA.K.ELF.A:Fluency
Standard: ELA.K.I
Description: Read emergent-reader texts with purpose and understanding.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.ELF:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Early Learning Foundations
Performance Standard: ELA.K.ELF.B:Phonics and Word Recognition
Standard: ELA.K.II
Description: Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words. •Demonstrate basic knowledge of one-to-one letter-sound correspondences by producing the primary or many of the most frequent sound for each consonant. •Associate the long and short sounds with common spellings (graphemes) for the five major vowels. •Read common high-frequency words by sight (e.g., the, of, to, you, she, my, is, are, do, does). •Distinguish between similarly spelled words by identifying the sounds of the letters that differ.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.ELF:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Early Learning Foundations
Performance Standard: ELA.K.ELF.C:Handwriting
Standard: ELA.K.III
Description: Print upper- and lowercase letters
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.ELF:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Early Learning Foundations
Description: Demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds (phonemes). •Recognize and produce rhyming words. •Count, pronounce, blend, and segment syllables in spoken words. •Blend and segment onsets and rimes of single-syllable spoken words. •Isolate and pronounce the initial, medial vowel, and final sounds (phonemes) in three-phoneme (consonant-vowel-consonant, or CVC) words. (This does not include CVCs ending with /l/, /r/, or /x/.) •Add or substitute individual sounds (phonemes) in simple, one-syllable words to make new words.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.ELF:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Early Learning Foundations
Performance Standard: ELA.K.ELF.E:Print concepts
Standard: ELA.K.V
Description: Demonstrate understanding of the organization and basic features of print. •Follow words from left to right, top to bottom, and page by page. •Recognize that spoken words are represented in written language by specific sequences of letters. •Understand that words are separated by spaces in print. •Recognize and name all upper- and lowercase letters of the alphabet.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.A:Key Ideas and Details
Standard: ELA.K.1
Description: With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.A:Key Ideas and Details
Standard: ELA.K.2
Description: With prompting and support, retell familiar stories, including key details.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.A:Key Ideas and Details
Standard: ELA.K.3
Description: With prompting and support, identify characters, settings, and major events in a story.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.A:Key Ideas and Details
Standard: ELA.K.4
Description: With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.B:Craft and Structure
Standard: ELA.K.7
Description: With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about unknown words in a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.B:Craft and Structure
Standard: ELA.K.8
Description: With prompting and support, recognize common types of texts (e.g., storybooks, poems).
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.B:Craft and Structure
Standard: ELA.K.9
Description: With prompting and support, name the author and illustrator of a story and define the role of each in telling the story.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.B:Craft and Structure
Standard: ELA.K.10
Description: With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about unknown words in a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.B:Craft and Structure
Standard: ELA.K.11
Description: With prompting and support, identify the front cover, back cover, and title page of a book.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.B:Craft and Structure
Standard: ELA.K.12
Description: With prompting and support, name the author and illustrator of a text and define the role of each in presenting the ideas or information in a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.C:Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.13
Description: With prompting and support, describe the relationship between illustrations and the story in which they appear (e.g., what moment in a story an illustration depicts).
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.C:Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.14
Description: With prompting and support, compare and contrast the adventures and experiences of characters in familiar stories.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.C:Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.15
Description: With prompting and support, describe the relationship between illustrations and the text in which they appear (e.g., what person, place, thing, or idea in the text an illustration depicts).
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.D:Range of Reading and Text Complexity
Standard: ELA.K.18
Description: Actively engage in group reading activities with purpose and understanding.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.D:Range of Reading and Text Complexity
Standard: ELA.K.19
Description: Actively engage in group reading activities with purpose and understanding.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.RW:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Speaking and Listening
Performance Standard: ELA.K.RW.B:Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.33
Description: Describe familiar people, places, things, and events and, with prompting and support, provide additional detail.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.RW:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Speaking and Listening
Performance Standard: ELA.K.RW.B:Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.35
Description: Speak audibly and express thoughts, feelings, and ideas clearly.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.L:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Language
Performance Standard: ELA.K.L.A:Conventions of Standard English
Standard: ELA.K.36
Description: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking. •Print many upper- and lowercase letters. •Use frequently occurring nouns and verbs. •Form regular plural nouns orally by adding /s/ or /es/ (e.g., dog, dogs; wish, wishes). •Understand and use question words (interrogatives) (e.g., who, what, where, when, why, how). •Use the most frequently occurring prepositions (e.g., to, from, in, out, on, off, for, of, by, with). •Produce and expand complete sentences in shared language activities.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.L:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Language
Performance Standard: ELA.K.L.A:Conventions of Standard English
Standard: ELA.K.37
Description: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing. •Capitalize the first word in a sentence and the pronoun I. •Recognize and name end punctuation. •Write a letter or letters for most consonant and short-vowel sounds (phonemes). •Spell simple words phonetically, drawing on knowledge of sound-letter relationships.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: Social Studies
Strand: SS.K:West Virginia Social Studies - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: C.SS.K:Civics
Standard: SS.K.1
Description: Develop an understanding of citizenship and patriotism through a variety of experiences (e.g., appropriate behavior, sharing, taking turns, volunteering, being honest and demonstrating responsibility for materials and personal belongings).
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Social Studies
Strand: SS.K:West Virginia Social Studies - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: C.SS.K:Civics
Standard: SS.K.2
Description: Participate in role play to resolve disputes, and demonstrate tolerance and acceptance of others and their ideas.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Social Studies
Strand: SS.K:West Virginia Social Studies - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: C.SS.K:Civics
Standard: SS.K.3
Description: Investigate the need for rules in their environment, create a set of classroom rules, and explore the consequences for not following the rules.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Social Studies
Strand: SS.K:West Virginia Social Studies - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: C.SS.K:Civics
Standard: SS.K.4
Description: Investigate the leadership roles within their families, classrooms and schools and demonstrate their understanding through activities such as role play and classroom jobs.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
Student Objectives
Lesson 46
Explain how storytelling has changed over time
Identify character traits of the animals in a story
Infer the theme of a story
Evaluate the theme based on 2 Thessalonians 3:10
Read words with the phonograms _ack and _ap
Read the high-frequency words baby, father, and mother
Write a phrase with proper spacing
Lesson 47
Describe the effect water has on a cookie
Participate in creating a new ending to "The Gingerbread Man" story
Dictate sentences for a shared writing activity
Use letter-sound association for e, i, and u
Read words with short vowels
Read words with plural s
Write a, b, c, d, and e
Lesson 48
Distinguish fantasy from realistic fiction
Predict the outcome of a story
Complete a creative-writing activity
Identify uppercase and lowercase Gg
Use letter-sound association for g
Identify plural nouns
Read words with the phonograms _ig and _ug
Write g
Lesson 49
Use puppets to act out a story
Sort objects by size
Complete a creative-writing activity
Identify uppercase and lowercase Gg
Use letter-sound associations for g
Read words with the phonograms _ag, _eg, and _egg
Read sentences with short vowel words
Write G
Lesson 50
Distinguish fanciful characters from realistic characters
Relate one story plot to another
Determine story setting from pictures
Lessons
Lesson 46: The Little Red Hen
Lesson 47: The Gingerbread Man
Lesson 48: The Three Little Pigs
Lesson 49: The Three Bears
Lesson 50: The Cats
Learning Center -Listening Post
Snack of the Week -Gingerbread Cookies
Show and Tell - Encourage the students to bring a favorite teddy bear
Literature
The Little Red Hen
The Gingerbread Man
The Three Little Pigs
The Three Bears
Language Arts
Phonics and English Skills
Letter Recognition
Read Word Families
Guided Reading
High-Frequency Words
Handwriting
Phonics Charts
Stick Puppet: Dottie
Phonics
Phonics Practice: Dan's Sack
Phonics Fun: Disappear
Phonics Fun: Alphabet Foods
Phonics Practice: Wigs
Phonics Fun: Reading Three
Activities
Lay an Egg
What Would You Do?
Animal Homes
The Three Bears Story
Sequence the Letters
Spelling
Grammar
Plural s
Plurals
Punctuation
Quotation Marks
Arts and Crafts
The Little Red Hen
Salt Dough Gingerbread Man
Sets of Three
Sing a Song
Little Red Hen
The Gingerbread Man
Straw, Sticks, Bricks
Goldilocks
Motor Skills
Helping Plant
Follow the Gingerbread Man
Like a Bear
Science
Grow Wheat
Write Now!
Write Now! pp. 49-53
Biblical Integration Concepts
God is great, and God is good
God created me and all things
The Bible is God's Word, and it is true
I learn in order to serve God and others
Biblical Integration Strategies
Relate the various nursery rhymes and fairy tale stories to Bible stories (true vs. false)
Encourage the students to share things that come in threes from the Bible (Mary, Joseph, and baby Jesus; Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego)
Use word cards and oral sentences to review story vocabulary
Use props to guide a discussion about each story (ie. taste of oatmeal)
Use the cover pictures and invite discussion
Unit 2: Bookshelf Friends / Week 11: Books that Teach
(updated 12/31/23)
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.ELF:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Early Learning Foundations
Performance Standard: ELA.K.ELF.A:Fluency
Standard: ELA.K.I
Description: Read emergent-reader texts with purpose and understanding.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.ELF:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Early Learning Foundations
Performance Standard: ELA.K.ELF.B:Phonics and Word Recognition
Standard: ELA.K.II
Description: Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words. •Demonstrate basic knowledge of one-to-one letter-sound correspondences by producing the primary or many of the most frequent sound for each consonant. •Associate the long and short sounds with common spellings (graphemes) for the five major vowels. •Read common high-frequency words by sight (e.g., the, of, to, you, she, my, is, are, do, does). •Distinguish between similarly spelled words by identifying the sounds of the letters that differ.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.ELF:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Early Learning Foundations
Performance Standard: ELA.K.ELF.C:Handwriting
Standard: ELA.K.III
Description: Print upper- and lowercase letters
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.ELF:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Early Learning Foundations
Description: Demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds (phonemes). •Recognize and produce rhyming words. •Count, pronounce, blend, and segment syllables in spoken words. •Blend and segment onsets and rimes of single-syllable spoken words. •Isolate and pronounce the initial, medial vowel, and final sounds (phonemes) in three-phoneme (consonant-vowel-consonant, or CVC) words. (This does not include CVCs ending with /l/, /r/, or /x/.) •Add or substitute individual sounds (phonemes) in simple, one-syllable words to make new words.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.ELF:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Early Learning Foundations
Performance Standard: ELA.K.ELF.E:Print concepts
Standard: ELA.K.V
Description: Demonstrate understanding of the organization and basic features of print. •Follow words from left to right, top to bottom, and page by page. •Recognize that spoken words are represented in written language by specific sequences of letters. •Understand that words are separated by spaces in print. •Recognize and name all upper- and lowercase letters of the alphabet.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.A:Key Ideas and Details
Standard: ELA.K.1
Description: With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.A:Key Ideas and Details
Standard: ELA.K.2
Description: With prompting and support, retell familiar stories, including key details.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.A:Key Ideas and Details
Standard: ELA.K.3
Description: With prompting and support, identify characters, settings, and major events in a story.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.A:Key Ideas and Details
Standard: ELA.K.4
Description: With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.A:Key Ideas and Details
Standard: ELA.K.5
Description: With prompting and support, identify the main topic and retell key details of a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.B:Craft and Structure
Standard: ELA.K.7
Description: With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about unknown words in a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.B:Craft and Structure
Standard: ELA.K.8
Description: With prompting and support, recognize common types of texts (e.g., storybooks, poems).
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.B:Craft and Structure
Standard: ELA.K.9
Description: With prompting and support, name the author and illustrator of a story and define the role of each in telling the story.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.B:Craft and Structure
Standard: ELA.K.10
Description: With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about unknown words in a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.B:Craft and Structure
Standard: ELA.K.11
Description: With prompting and support, identify the front cover, back cover, and title page of a book.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.B:Craft and Structure
Standard: ELA.K.12
Description: With prompting and support, name the author and illustrator of a text and define the role of each in presenting the ideas or information in a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.C:Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.13
Description: With prompting and support, describe the relationship between illustrations and the story in which they appear (e.g., what moment in a story an illustration depicts).
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.C:Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.15
Description: With prompting and support, describe the relationship between illustrations and the text in which they appear (e.g., what person, place, thing, or idea in the text an illustration depicts).
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.D:Range of Reading and Text Complexity
Standard: ELA.K.18
Description: Actively engage in group reading activities with purpose and understanding.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.D:Range of Reading and Text Complexity
Standard: ELA.K.19
Description: Actively engage in group reading activities with purpose and understanding.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.RW:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Speaking and Listening
Performance Standard: ELA.K.RW.B:Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.33
Description: Describe familiar people, places, things, and events and, with prompting and support, provide additional detail.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.RW:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Speaking and Listening
Performance Standard: ELA.K.RW.B:Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.34
Description: Add drawings or other visual displays to descriptions as desired to provide additional detail.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.RW:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Speaking and Listening
Performance Standard: ELA.K.RW.B:Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.35
Description: Speak audibly and express thoughts, feelings, and ideas clearly.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.L:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Language
Performance Standard: ELA.K.L.A:Conventions of Standard English
Standard: ELA.K.36
Description: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking. •Print many upper- and lowercase letters. •Use frequently occurring nouns and verbs. •Form regular plural nouns orally by adding /s/ or /es/ (e.g., dog, dogs; wish, wishes). •Understand and use question words (interrogatives) (e.g., who, what, where, when, why, how). •Use the most frequently occurring prepositions (e.g., to, from, in, out, on, off, for, of, by, with). •Produce and expand complete sentences in shared language activities.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.L:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Language
Performance Standard: ELA.K.L.A:Conventions of Standard English
Standard: ELA.K.37
Description: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing. •Capitalize the first word in a sentence and the pronoun I. •Recognize and name end punctuation. •Write a letter or letters for most consonant and short-vowel sounds (phonemes). •Spell simple words phonetically, drawing on knowledge of sound-letter relationships.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
Student Objectives
Lesson 51
List different types of learning books
Explain how to use several types of learning books
Distinguish between fiction and nonfiction
Identify uppercase and lowercase Oo
Use letter-sound association for o
Read words with the phonograms _ob, _ock, _od, _op, and _ot
Read the high-frequency word good
Write o
Lesson 52
Identify the purpose of how-to-books
List types of how-to books
Follow the directions of a recipe
Describe a food using the five senses
Dictate sentences for a shared writing activity
Identify uppercase and lowercase Oo
Use letter-sound association for o
Read words with the phonograms _og, _on, and _oss
Write O
Lesson 53
Sing some songs
State that songbooks have songs in them
Follow directions to complete a singing game
Use letter-sound association for short vowels
Read words with short vowels
Write vowels
Lesson 54
Identify objects that are attracted to a magnet
Complete a creative-writing activity
Identify uppercase and lowercase letters
Review letter-sound associations
Read words with short vowels
Review all high-frequency words
Write a sentence
Lesson 55
Interpret action in pictures
Determine story settings from pictures
Interpret descriptive sentences
Explain how God protected Moses
Distinguish a Bible account from fiction
Read simple sentences
Lessons
Lesson 51: Learning Books
Lesson 52: How-to Books
Lesson 53: Songbooks
Lesson 54: Science Books
Lesson 55: The Bed
Learning Center - Follow the Notes
Snack of the Week -Dot-to-Dot Cookies
Show and Tell -Encourage the students to bring their favorite science book
Heritage Studies
Learning Books
Songbooks
Language Arts
Phonics and English Skills
Letter Recognition
Word Families
High-Frequency Words
Handwriting
Guided Reading
Rhymes
Phonics
Phonics Practice: Dot
Phonics Fun: Set the Table
Phonics Fun: Toss the Bag
Phonics Practice: Socks
Phonics Fun: Make Words
Phonics Fun: I Spy
Activity
Tic-Tac-Toe
High-Frequency Word Sentences
Sentence Roundup
Arts and Crafts
Dot
How-to Activity
Ring the Bells
Baby Moses
Write Now!
Write Now pp. 54-58
Sing a Song
Bookshelf Friends
Motor Skills
Q-Tip Painting
Corn Shakers
Cup Relay
Act it Out
Science
How-to Books
Popcorn Tasting
Musical Jars
Science Books
Ramps
Biblical Integration Concepts
God is great, and God is good
God created me and all things
The Bible is God's Word, and it is true
I learn in order to serve God and others
Biblical Integration Strategies
Read, discuss and act out the story of Baby Moses
Read the account of Pharaoh's daughter finding Moses in Exodus 2:5-9
Practice reading aloud slowly and work towards greater oral fluency
Use games and motor activities to reinforce and practice new sounds and words
Utilize colorful pictures to reinforce each letter and sound
Students should sing a phonics song as they learn each new letter-sound association
Set up classroom stations and give students time to explore each station
Quarter 2
Unit 3: Ants to Elephants / Week 12: Bible Animals
(updated 12/5/23)
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Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.ELF:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Early Learning Foundations
Performance Standard: ELA.K.ELF.A:Fluency
Standard: ELA.K.I
Description: Read emergent-reader texts with purpose and understanding.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.ELF:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Early Learning Foundations
Performance Standard: ELA.K.ELF.B:Phonics and Word Recognition
Standard: ELA.K.II
Description: Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words. •Demonstrate basic knowledge of one-to-one letter-sound correspondences by producing the primary or many of the most frequent sound for each consonant. •Associate the long and short sounds with common spellings (graphemes) for the five major vowels. •Read common high-frequency words by sight (e.g., the, of, to, you, she, my, is, are, do, does). •Distinguish between similarly spelled words by identifying the sounds of the letters that differ.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.ELF:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Early Learning Foundations
Performance Standard: ELA.K.ELF.C:Handwriting
Standard: ELA.K.III
Description: Print upper- and lowercase letters
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.ELF:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Early Learning Foundations
Description: Demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds (phonemes). •Recognize and produce rhyming words. •Count, pronounce, blend, and segment syllables in spoken words. •Blend and segment onsets and rimes of single-syllable spoken words. •Isolate and pronounce the initial, medial vowel, and final sounds (phonemes) in three-phoneme (consonant-vowel-consonant, or CVC) words. (This does not include CVCs ending with /l/, /r/, or /x/.) •Add or substitute individual sounds (phonemes) in simple, one-syllable words to make new words.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.ELF:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Early Learning Foundations
Performance Standard: ELA.K.ELF.E:Print concepts
Standard: ELA.K.V
Description: Demonstrate understanding of the organization and basic features of print. •Follow words from left to right, top to bottom, and page by page. •Recognize that spoken words are represented in written language by specific sequences of letters. •Understand that words are separated by spaces in print. •Recognize and name all upper- and lowercase letters of the alphabet.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.A:Key Ideas and Details
Standard: ELA.K.1
Description: With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.A:Key Ideas and Details
Standard: ELA.K.2
Description: With prompting and support, retell familiar stories, including key details.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.A:Key Ideas and Details
Standard: ELA.K.3
Description: With prompting and support, identify characters, settings, and major events in a story.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.A:Key Ideas and Details
Standard: ELA.K.4
Description: With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.A:Key Ideas and Details
Standard: ELA.K.5
Description: With prompting and support, identify the main topic and retell key details of a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.A:Key Ideas and Details
Standard: ELA.K.6
Description: With prompting and support, describe the connection between two individuals, events, ideas, or pieces of information in a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.B:Craft and Structure
Standard: ELA.K.7
Description: With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about unknown words in a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.B:Craft and Structure
Standard: ELA.K.8
Description: With prompting and support, recognize common types of texts (e.g., storybooks, poems).
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.B:Craft and Structure
Standard: ELA.K.9
Description: With prompting and support, name the author and illustrator of a story and define the role of each in telling the story.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.B:Craft and Structure
Standard: ELA.K.10
Description: With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about unknown words in a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.B:Craft and Structure
Standard: ELA.K.11
Description: With prompting and support, identify the front cover, back cover, and title page of a book.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.B:Craft and Structure
Standard: ELA.K.12
Description: With prompting and support, name the author and illustrator of a text and define the role of each in presenting the ideas or information in a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.C:Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.13
Description: With prompting and support, describe the relationship between illustrations and the story in which they appear (e.g., what moment in a story an illustration depicts).
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.C:Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.14
Description: With prompting and support, compare and contrast the adventures and experiences of characters in familiar stories.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.C:Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.15
Description: With prompting and support, describe the relationship between illustrations and the text in which they appear (e.g., what person, place, thing, or idea in the text an illustration depicts).
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.C:Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.16
Description: With prompting and support, identify the reasons an author gives to support points in a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.D:Range of Reading and Text Complexity
Standard: ELA.K.18
Description: Actively engage in group reading activities with purpose and understanding.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.D:Range of Reading and Text Complexity
Standard: ELA.K.19
Description: Actively engage in group reading activities with purpose and understanding.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.RW:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Speaking and Listening
Performance Standard: ELA.K.RW.B:Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.33
Description: Describe familiar people, places, things, and events and, with prompting and support, provide additional detail.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.RW:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Speaking and Listening
Performance Standard: ELA.K.RW.B:Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.34
Description: Add drawings or other visual displays to descriptions as desired to provide additional detail.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.RW:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Speaking and Listening
Performance Standard: ELA.K.RW.B:Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.35
Description: Speak audibly and express thoughts, feelings, and ideas clearly.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.L:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Language
Performance Standard: ELA.K.L.A:Conventions of Standard English
Standard: ELA.K.36
Description: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking. •Print many upper- and lowercase letters. •Use frequently occurring nouns and verbs. •Form regular plural nouns orally by adding /s/ or /es/ (e.g., dog, dogs; wish, wishes). •Understand and use question words (interrogatives) (e.g., who, what, where, when, why, how). •Use the most frequently occurring prepositions (e.g., to, from, in, out, on, off, for, of, by, with). •Produce and expand complete sentences in shared language activities.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.L:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Language
Performance Standard: ELA.K.L.A:Conventions of Standard English
Standard: ELA.K.37
Description: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing. •Capitalize the first word in a sentence and the pronoun I. •Recognize and name end punctuation. •Write a letter or letters for most consonant and short-vowel sounds (phonemes). •Spell simple words phonetically, drawing on knowledge of sound-letter relationships.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.L:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Language
Performance Standard: ELA.K.L.C:Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
Standard: ELA.K.39
Description: Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on kindergarten reading and content. •Identify new meanings for familiar words and apply them accurately (e.g., knowing duck is a bird and learning the verb to duck). •Introduce the most frequently occurring inflections and affixes (e.g., -ed, -s, re-, un-, pre-, -ful, -less) as a clue to the meaning of an unknown word.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.L:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Language
Performance Standard: ELA.K.L.C:Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
Standard: ELA.K.40
Description: With guidance and support from adults, explore word relationships and nuances in word meanings. •Sort common objects into categories (e.g., shapes, foods) to gain a sense of the concepts the categories represent. •Demonstrate understanding of frequently occurring verbs and adjectives by relating them to their opposites (antonyms). •Identify real-life connections between words and their use (e.g., note places at school that are colorful). •Distinguish shades of meaning among verbs describing the same general action (e.g., walk, march, strut, prance) by acting out the meanings.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: Science
Strand: S.K:West Virginia Science - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: S.K.GS:General Science
Standard: S.K.GS.3
Description: use observations to describe patterns of what plants and animals (including humans) need to survive
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Social Studies
Strand: SS.K:West Virginia Social Studies - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: C.SS.K:Civics
Standard: SS.K.1
Description: Develop an understanding of citizenship and patriotism through a variety of experiences (e.g., appropriate behavior, sharing, taking turns, volunteering, being honest and demonstrating responsibility for materials and personal belongings).
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Social Studies
Strand: SS.K:West Virginia Social Studies - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: C.SS.K:Civics
Standard: SS.K.2
Description: Participate in role play to resolve disputes, and demonstrate tolerance and acceptance of others and their ideas.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Social Studies
Strand: SS.K:West Virginia Social Studies - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: C.SS.K:Civics
Standard: SS.K.3
Description: Investigate the need for rules in their environment, create a set of classroom rules, and explore the consequences for not following the rules.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Social Studies
Strand: SS.K:West Virginia Social Studies - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: C.SS.K:Civics
Standard: SS.K.4
Description: Investigate the leadership roles within their families, classrooms and schools and demonstrate their understanding through activities such as role play and classroom jobs.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Social Studies
Strand: SS.K:West Virginia Social Studies - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: G.SS.K:Geography
Standard: SS.K.13
Description: Investigate the need for symbols in daily life (e.g., exit, stop sign, bathroom signs, school zone, stop light, etc.).
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Social Studies
Strand: SS.K:West Virginia Social Studies - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: H.SS.K:History
Standard: SS.K.14
Description: Illustrate personal history (e.g., first and last name, birthday, age, guardian's name, and other personal data).
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
Student Objectives
Lesson 56
Identify a picture of a sheep
Describe what wool feels like
Name things that a shepherd does to care for his sheep
Compare the way a shepherd cares for his sheep to the way Jesus cares for His people
Identify upper and lowercase Ll
Use letter-sound association for l
Read words with initial l
Read the high-frequency words are and this
Write the letter l
Lesson 57
Describe textures using words such as rough, smooth, soft, and hard
State that learning to communicate by writing allows us to share God's truth
Draw a picture of an item and dictate or write a word to describe how it feels
Identify upper and lowercase Ll
Use letter-sound association for l
Read words with the phonograms _ell and _ill
Write the letter L
Lesson 58
List similarities and differences between a donkey and a sheep
State that God made all things for His glory
Explain how God kept His promise when He used a donkey on Palm Sunday
Identify uppercase and lowercase Mm
Use letter-sound association for m
Read words with the phonograms _am and _im
Read words with initial m
Read compound words
Write the letter m
Lesson 59
Describe a lion's appearance, habitat, and actions
List some times lions appear in the Bible
Compare and contrast lions and house cats
Assemble a lion mask using a variety of materials
Identify uppercase and lowercase Mm
Use letter-sound association for m
Read words with the phonograms _om and _um
Write the letter M
Lesson 60
Read an informational text
Contrast an informational text with a narrative
Use questioning to interpret pictures and text in an informational text
Locate facts in an informational text
Lessons
Lesson 56: Sheep
Lesson 57: Soft Wool
Lesson 58: Donkeys
Lesson 59: Lions
Lesson 60: Naps
Learning Center -Animal Sort
Snack of the Week - Sheep Cupcakes
Show and Tell - Encourage the students to bring a toy animal or a picture of an animal that lived during Bible times
Heritage Studies
Sheep
Animals in the Bible
Donkeys
Language Arts
Phonics and English Skills
Letter Recognition
Sing the Sounds
Read Word Families
High Frequency Words
Handwriting
Phonics
Phonics Practice: "A Lap"
Phonics Fun: Hop to the Top
Phonics Fun: Mystery Picture
Phonics Practice: In the Mud
Phonics Fun: Donkey Sounds
Phonics Fun: Roaring Compound Words
Activity
God Made the Animals Booklet
Bingo
Word Family Review
Grammar
Compound Words
Science
Sheep Shearing
Wool
Lions
Sing a Song
God Made the Animals verse 1
God Made the Animals verse 2
God Made the Animals verse 3
Arts and Crafts
Lamb's Head
Uncle Short
Touch My Hand
Donkey Stick Puppet
Lion Paper Plate Craft
Write Now!
Write Now pp. 59-63
Motor Skills
Who Has My Sheep?
Donkeys Sing
Animal Sounds
Biblical Integration Concepts
God is great, and God is good
God created me and all things
The Bible is God's Word, and it is true
I learn in order to serve God and others
Biblical Integration Strategies
Discuss different animals in the Bible
The Lamb and the Shepherd
Read the account of David killing a lion and a bear to protect his sheep (1 Samuel 17:34-36)
Summarize the story of Balaam, when God caused a donkey to talk (Numbers 22:28-33)
Set up classroom stations, and allow students time to participate in various learning centers
Set up a literacy center with suggested book list found in teacher guide; rotate books depending upon the theme of the week
Utilize songs to reinforce the learning theme and to help students internalize letter and word sounds
Sign songs daily and together
Utilize the stick puppets
Have students practice daily with Word Family Cards and High-Frequency Word Cards
Focus on posture and process of handwriting
Make a special effort to celebrate the various special days of the year
Utilize charts and graphs especially when asking students to compare and contrast
Arrange field trips specific to the theme of the week
Unit 3: Ants to Elephants / Week 13: Insects
(updated 12/31/23)
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.ELF:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Early Learning Foundations
Performance Standard: ELA.K.ELF.A:Fluency
Standard: ELA.K.I
Description: Read emergent-reader texts with purpose and understanding.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.ELF:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Early Learning Foundations
Performance Standard: ELA.K.ELF.B:Phonics and Word Recognition
Standard: ELA.K.II
Description: Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words. •Demonstrate basic knowledge of one-to-one letter-sound correspondences by producing the primary or many of the most frequent sound for each consonant. •Associate the long and short sounds with common spellings (graphemes) for the five major vowels. •Read common high-frequency words by sight (e.g., the, of, to, you, she, my, is, are, do, does). •Distinguish between similarly spelled words by identifying the sounds of the letters that differ.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.ELF:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Early Learning Foundations
Performance Standard: ELA.K.ELF.C:Handwriting
Standard: ELA.K.III
Description: Print upper- and lowercase letters
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.ELF:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Early Learning Foundations
Performance Standard: ELA.K.ELF.E:Print concepts
Standard: ELA.K.V
Description: Demonstrate understanding of the organization and basic features of print. •Follow words from left to right, top to bottom, and page by page. •Recognize that spoken words are represented in written language by specific sequences of letters. •Understand that words are separated by spaces in print. •Recognize and name all upper- and lowercase letters of the alphabet.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.A:Key Ideas and Details
Standard: ELA.K.1
Description: With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.A:Key Ideas and Details
Standard: ELA.K.2
Description: With prompting and support, retell familiar stories, including key details.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.A:Key Ideas and Details
Standard: ELA.K.3
Description: With prompting and support, identify characters, settings, and major events in a story.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.A:Key Ideas and Details
Standard: ELA.K.4
Description: With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.A:Key Ideas and Details
Standard: ELA.K.5
Description: With prompting and support, identify the main topic and retell key details of a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.B:Craft and Structure
Standard: ELA.K.7
Description: With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about unknown words in a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.B:Craft and Structure
Standard: ELA.K.8
Description: With prompting and support, recognize common types of texts (e.g., storybooks, poems).
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.B:Craft and Structure
Standard: ELA.K.9
Description: With prompting and support, name the author and illustrator of a story and define the role of each in telling the story.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.B:Craft and Structure
Standard: ELA.K.10
Description: With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about unknown words in a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.B:Craft and Structure
Standard: ELA.K.11
Description: With prompting and support, identify the front cover, back cover, and title page of a book.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.C:Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.13
Description: With prompting and support, describe the relationship between illustrations and the story in which they appear (e.g., what moment in a story an illustration depicts).
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.C:Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.14
Description: With prompting and support, compare and contrast the adventures and experiences of characters in familiar stories.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.C:Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.15
Description: With prompting and support, describe the relationship between illustrations and the text in which they appear (e.g., what person, place, thing, or idea in the text an illustration depicts).
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.C:Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.16
Description: With prompting and support, identify the reasons an author gives to support points in a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.D:Range of Reading and Text Complexity
Standard: ELA.K.18
Description: Actively engage in group reading activities with purpose and understanding.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.D:Range of Reading and Text Complexity
Standard: ELA.K.19
Description: Actively engage in group reading activities with purpose and understanding.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.RW:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Speaking and Listening
Performance Standard: ELA.K.RW.A:Comprehension and Collaboration
Standard: ELA.K.31
Description: Confirm understanding of a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media by asking and answering questions about key details and requesting clarification if something is not understood.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.RW:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Speaking and Listening
Performance Standard: ELA.K.RW.A:Comprehension and Collaboration
Standard: ELA.K.32
Description: Ask and answer questions in order to seek help, get information, or clarify something that is not understood.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.RW:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Speaking and Listening
Performance Standard: ELA.K.RW.B:Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.33
Description: Describe familiar people, places, things, and events and, with prompting and support, provide additional detail.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.RW:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Speaking and Listening
Performance Standard: ELA.K.RW.B:Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.34
Description: Add drawings or other visual displays to descriptions as desired to provide additional detail.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.RW:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Speaking and Listening
Performance Standard: ELA.K.RW.B:Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.35
Description: Speak audibly and express thoughts, feelings, and ideas clearly.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.L:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Language
Performance Standard: ELA.K.L.A:Conventions of Standard English
Standard: ELA.K.36
Description: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking. •Print many upper- and lowercase letters. •Use frequently occurring nouns and verbs. •Form regular plural nouns orally by adding /s/ or /es/ (e.g., dog, dogs; wish, wishes). •Understand and use question words (interrogatives) (e.g., who, what, where, when, why, how). •Use the most frequently occurring prepositions (e.g., to, from, in, out, on, off, for, of, by, with). •Produce and expand complete sentences in shared language activities.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.L:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Language
Performance Standard: ELA.K.L.A:Conventions of Standard English
Standard: ELA.K.37
Description: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing. •Capitalize the first word in a sentence and the pronoun I. •Recognize and name end punctuation. •Write a letter or letters for most consonant and short-vowel sounds (phonemes). •Spell simple words phonetically, drawing on knowledge of sound-letter relationships.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: Social Studies
Strand: SS.K:West Virginia Social Studies - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: C.SS.K:Civics
Standard: SS.K.1
Description: Develop an understanding of citizenship and patriotism through a variety of experiences (e.g., appropriate behavior, sharing, taking turns, volunteering, being honest and demonstrating responsibility for materials and personal belongings).
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Social Studies
Strand: SS.K:West Virginia Social Studies - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: C.SS.K:Civics
Standard: SS.K.2
Description: Participate in role play to resolve disputes, and demonstrate tolerance and acceptance of others and their ideas.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Social Studies
Strand: SS.K:West Virginia Social Studies - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: C.SS.K:Civics
Standard: SS.K.3
Description: Investigate the need for rules in their environment, create a set of classroom rules, and explore the consequences for not following the rules.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Social Studies
Strand: SS.K:West Virginia Social Studies - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: C.SS.K:Civics
Standard: SS.K.4
Description: Investigate the leadership roles within their families, classrooms and schools and demonstrate their understanding through activities such as role play and classroom jobs.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
Student Objectives
Lesson 61
Describe an ant
Compare the way ants work to the way people should work
Identify uppercase and lowercase Ff
Use letter-sound association for f
Read a word with the phonogram _if
Read words with initial f
Read the high-frequency words for and her
Write the letter f
Lesson 62
Describe an ant colony
Describe some ants' jobs
Role-play to show a community working together
Dictate sentences for a shared writing experience
Identify uppercase and lowercase Ff
Use letter-sound association for f
Read words with the phonograms _off and _uff
Write the letter F
Lesson 63
List the characteristics of a ladybug
Distinguish fantasy from realistic fiction
Identify a period at the end of a sentence
Identify uppercase and lowercase Vv
Use letter-sound association for v
Read words with initial v
Write the letters Vv
Lesson 64
Sequence the life cycle of the butterfly
Dictate a word or phrase to complete a creative-writing activity
Recognize the five vowels
Read words with short vowel sounds
Use correct slant when writing a letter
Write a compound word
Lesson 65
Draw conclusions from picture interpretation and text
Read orally to communicate the author's message
Use proper inflection when reading sentences with periods or exclamation points
Lessons
Lesson 61: Ants
Lesson 62: Working Together
Lesson 63: Ladybugs
Lesson 64: Insect Life
Lesson 65: Bell
Learning Center - Going on a Picnic
Snack of the Week - Ants
Show and Tell - Encourage the students to bring real or toy insects
Science
The Strong Ant
The Butterfly
Hopping Bugs
Observe an Insect
Language Arts
Phonics and English Skills
Letter Recognition
Sing the Sounds
High-Frequency Words
Handwriting
Phonics
Phonics Practice - Fin
Phonics Fun: Marching Home
Phonics Fun: Mystery Words
Phonics Practice - The Vet
Phonics Fun: Ladybug
Phonics Fun: Beuatiful Butterfly
Activities
God Made the Animals Booklet
Sentence Roundup
Recognizing Phonograms
Guided Reading
Grammar
Possessive s
Motor Skills
Marching Ants
Growing Up
Arts and Crafts
Ant Picnic
Ladybugs
Ladybug Puppet
Make an Insect
Write Now!
Write Now! pages 65-69
Sing a Song
Ant Homes
I'm Glad That He Made You
God Made the Animals
Biblical Integration Concepts
God is great, and God is good
God created me and all things
The Bible is God's Word; and it is true
I learn in order to serve God and others
Biblical Integration Strategies
Read aloud Proverbs 6:6 and Proverbs 30:25; explain that God gives us the example of ants to show us that we need to work and not be lazy
Share the account of the plagues (Exodus 7-11) emphasizing the part that insects played in the plagues
Daily review of vocabulary, phonics, grammar
Unit 3: Ants to Elephants / Week 14: Wild Animals
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X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.ELF:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Early Learning Foundations
Performance Standard: ELA.K.ELF.A:Fluency
Standard: ELA.K.I
Description: Read emergent-reader texts with purpose and understanding.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.ELF:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Early Learning Foundations
Performance Standard: ELA.K.ELF.B:Phonics and Word Recognition
Standard: ELA.K.II
Description: Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words. •Demonstrate basic knowledge of one-to-one letter-sound correspondences by producing the primary or many of the most frequent sound for each consonant. •Associate the long and short sounds with common spellings (graphemes) for the five major vowels. •Read common high-frequency words by sight (e.g., the, of, to, you, she, my, is, are, do, does). •Distinguish between similarly spelled words by identifying the sounds of the letters that differ.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.ELF:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Early Learning Foundations
Performance Standard: ELA.K.ELF.C:Handwriting
Standard: ELA.K.III
Description: Print upper- and lowercase letters
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.ELF:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Early Learning Foundations
Description: Demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds (phonemes). •Recognize and produce rhyming words. •Count, pronounce, blend, and segment syllables in spoken words. •Blend and segment onsets and rimes of single-syllable spoken words. •Isolate and pronounce the initial, medial vowel, and final sounds (phonemes) in three-phoneme (consonant-vowel-consonant, or CVC) words. (This does not include CVCs ending with /l/, /r/, or /x/.) •Add or substitute individual sounds (phonemes) in simple, one-syllable words to make new words.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.ELF:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Early Learning Foundations
Performance Standard: ELA.K.ELF.E:Print concepts
Standard: ELA.K.V
Description: Demonstrate understanding of the organization and basic features of print. •Follow words from left to right, top to bottom, and page by page. •Recognize that spoken words are represented in written language by specific sequences of letters. •Understand that words are separated by spaces in print. •Recognize and name all upper- and lowercase letters of the alphabet.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.A:Key Ideas and Details
Standard: ELA.K.1
Description: With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.A:Key Ideas and Details
Standard: ELA.K.2
Description: With prompting and support, retell familiar stories, including key details.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.A:Key Ideas and Details
Standard: ELA.K.3
Description: With prompting and support, identify characters, settings, and major events in a story.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.A:Key Ideas and Details
Standard: ELA.K.4
Description: With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.A:Key Ideas and Details
Standard: ELA.K.5
Description: With prompting and support, identify the main topic and retell key details of a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.A:Key Ideas and Details
Standard: ELA.K.6
Description: With prompting and support, describe the connection between two individuals, events, ideas, or pieces of information in a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.B:Craft and Structure
Standard: ELA.K.7
Description: With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about unknown words in a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.B:Craft and Structure
Standard: ELA.K.8
Description: With prompting and support, recognize common types of texts (e.g., storybooks, poems).
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.B:Craft and Structure
Standard: ELA.K.9
Description: With prompting and support, name the author and illustrator of a story and define the role of each in telling the story.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.B:Craft and Structure
Standard: ELA.K.10
Description: With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about unknown words in a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.B:Craft and Structure
Standard: ELA.K.11
Description: With prompting and support, identify the front cover, back cover, and title page of a book.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.B:Craft and Structure
Standard: ELA.K.12
Description: With prompting and support, name the author and illustrator of a text and define the role of each in presenting the ideas or information in a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.C:Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.13
Description: With prompting and support, describe the relationship between illustrations and the story in which they appear (e.g., what moment in a story an illustration depicts).
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.C:Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.14
Description: With prompting and support, compare and contrast the adventures and experiences of characters in familiar stories.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.D:Range of Reading and Text Complexity
Standard: ELA.K.18
Description: Actively engage in group reading activities with purpose and understanding.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.D:Range of Reading and Text Complexity
Standard: ELA.K.19
Description: Actively engage in group reading activities with purpose and understanding.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.RW:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Speaking and Listening
Performance Standard: ELA.K.RW.A:Comprehension and Collaboration
Standard: ELA.K.30
Description: Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about kindergarten topics and texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups. •Follow agreed-upon rules for discussions (e.g., listening to others and taking turns speaking about the topics and texts under discussion). •Continue a conversation through multiple exchanges.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.RW:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Speaking and Listening
Performance Standard: ELA.K.RW.A:Comprehension and Collaboration
Standard: ELA.K.31
Description: Confirm understanding of a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media by asking and answering questions about key details and requesting clarification if something is not understood.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.RW:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Speaking and Listening
Performance Standard: ELA.K.RW.A:Comprehension and Collaboration
Standard: ELA.K.32
Description: Ask and answer questions in order to seek help, get information, or clarify something that is not understood.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.RW:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Speaking and Listening
Performance Standard: ELA.K.RW.B:Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.33
Description: Describe familiar people, places, things, and events and, with prompting and support, provide additional detail.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.RW:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Speaking and Listening
Performance Standard: ELA.K.RW.B:Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.34
Description: Add drawings or other visual displays to descriptions as desired to provide additional detail.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.RW:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Speaking and Listening
Performance Standard: ELA.K.RW.B:Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.35
Description: Speak audibly and express thoughts, feelings, and ideas clearly.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.L:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Language
Performance Standard: ELA.K.L.A:Conventions of Standard English
Standard: ELA.K.36
Description: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking. •Print many upper- and lowercase letters. •Use frequently occurring nouns and verbs. •Form regular plural nouns orally by adding /s/ or /es/ (e.g., dog, dogs; wish, wishes). •Understand and use question words (interrogatives) (e.g., who, what, where, when, why, how). •Use the most frequently occurring prepositions (e.g., to, from, in, out, on, off, for, of, by, with). •Produce and expand complete sentences in shared language activities.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.L:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Language
Performance Standard: ELA.K.L.A:Conventions of Standard English
Standard: ELA.K.37
Description: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing. •Capitalize the first word in a sentence and the pronoun I. •Recognize and name end punctuation. •Write a letter or letters for most consonant and short-vowel sounds (phonemes). •Spell simple words phonetically, drawing on knowledge of sound-letter relationships.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.L:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Language
Performance Standard: ELA.K.L.C:Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
Standard: ELA.K.40
Description: With guidance and support from adults, explore word relationships and nuances in word meanings. •Sort common objects into categories (e.g., shapes, foods) to gain a sense of the concepts the categories represent. •Demonstrate understanding of frequently occurring verbs and adjectives by relating them to their opposites (antonyms). •Identify real-life connections between words and their use (e.g., note places at school that are colorful). •Distinguish shades of meaning among verbs describing the same general action (e.g., walk, march, strut, prance) by acting out the meanings.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.L:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Language
Performance Standard: ELA.K.L.C:Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
Standard: ELA.K.41
Description: Use words and phrases acquired through conversations, reading and being read to, and responding to texts.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: Social Studies
Strand: SS.K:West Virginia Social Studies - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: C.SS.K:Civics
Standard: SS.K.1
Description: Develop an understanding of citizenship and patriotism through a variety of experiences (e.g., appropriate behavior, sharing, taking turns, volunteering, being honest and demonstrating responsibility for materials and personal belongings).
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Social Studies
Strand: SS.K:West Virginia Social Studies - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: C.SS.K:Civics
Standard: SS.K.2
Description: Participate in role play to resolve disputes, and demonstrate tolerance and acceptance of others and their ideas.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Social Studies
Strand: SS.K:West Virginia Social Studies - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: C.SS.K:Civics
Standard: SS.K.3
Description: Investigate the need for rules in their environment, create a set of classroom rules, and explore the consequences for not following the rules.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Social Studies
Strand: SS.K:West Virginia Social Studies - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: C.SS.K:Civics
Standard: SS.K.4
Description: Investigate the leadership roles within their families, classrooms and schools and demonstrate their understanding through activities such as role play and classroom jobs.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Social Studies
Strand: SS.K:West Virginia Social Studies - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: G.SS.K:Geography
Standard: SS.K.13
Description: Investigate the need for symbols in daily life (e.g., exit, stop sign, bathroom signs, school zone, stop light, etc.).
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Social Studies
Strand: SS.K:West Virginia Social Studies - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: H.SS.K:History
Standard: SS.K.14
Description: Illustrate personal history (e.g., first and last name, birthday, age, guardian's name, and other personal data).
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Social Studies
Strand: SS.K:West Virginia Social Studies - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: H.SS.K:History
Standard: SS.K.16
Description: Investigate the past and explore the differences in other people, times and cultures through stories of people, heroes, pictures, songs, holidays, customs, traditions or legends.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
Student Objectives
Lesson 66
Describe characteristics of a zoo
Contrast wild animals and pets
Locate places on a zoo map
Identify uppercase and lowercase Rr
Use letter-sound association for r
Read words with initial r
Read the high-frequency words of and put
Write the letter r
Lesson 67
Create an impression of an animal paw prints
Match pictures of animal feet and paws to their tracks
Complete a creative-writing activity
Identify uppercase and lowercase Rr
Use letter-sound association for r
Read words with initial r
Write the letter R
Lesson 68
State the characteristics of an elephant
Use fine motor skills to complete a craft
Describe the purpose of an elephant's trunk
Participate in a memory game
Identify the elephant's habitat
Identify uppercase and lowercase Jj
Use letter-sound association for j
Read words with initial j
Write the letter j
Lesson 69
Describe how camouflage helps protect animals
Dictate a sentence that describes a picture
State that God gave animals abilities to defend themselves
Choose the best color for several animals to use as camouflage
Identify uppercase and lowercase Jj
Use letter-sound association for j
Read words with initial j
Write the letter J
Lesson 70
Gain factual information from photos
Gain facts from informational text
Draw conclusions from informational text
Lessons
Lesson 66: The Zoo
Lesson 67: Animal Tracks
Lesson 68: Elephant Country
Lesson 69: Animals Hide
Lesson 70: The Jet
Learning Center - Wild Animal Sort
Snack of the Week - Animal Crackers
Show and Tell - Encourage each student to bring a picture of himself along with a piece of cloth that can provide a camouflage background for the picture
Heritage Studies
Wild Animals
Language Arts
Phonics and English skills
Letter Recognition
Sing the Sounds
Review Word Families
High Frequency Words
Handwriting
Phonics
Phonics Fun: Alphabet Rooster
Phonics Practice: Tag
Phonics Fun: Name That Letter
Phonics Practice: Sun Fun
Phonics Fun: Word Family Scramble
Phonics Fun: Hidden Families
Punctuation
Period
Exclamation Point
Question Mark
Vocabulary
Activities
Sentence Roundup
God Made the Animals Booklet
Tic-Tac-Toe
Guided Reading
Arts and Crafts
Zoo
Fingerprint Animals
Find the Animal
Class Zoo
Motor Skills
Walk Like the Animals
Low or High
What Elephants Do
Hide and Seek
Feed the Elephant
Write Now!
Write Now! pp. 69-73
Sing a Song
The Zoo
Science
Make Tracks
Elephants Remember
Animals Blend In
Camouflage
Field Trip - Zoo
Biblical Integration Concepts
God is great, and God is good
God created me and all things
The Bible is God's Word, and it is true
I learn in order to serve God and others
Biblical Integration Strategies
Tell the students the story of Noah (Genesis 7-8)
Integrate Christian worldview into daily lesson planning
Use colorful pictures to reinforce each letter and sound
Use games and motor activities to involve the students as they practice and review sounds and words
Utilize Unit 7 activities that are relevant
Read to students daily
Assign and discuss using the comprehension questions after the Listening Story
Use phonics stories to provide practice for new skills and foster comprehension
Make sure to provide phonics instruction in a logical, colorful format
Have students practice word families both oral and written
Use composition activites to promote the reading/writing connection
Unit 3: Ants to Elephants / Week 15: By the Pond
(updated 12/5/23)
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Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.ELF:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Early Learning Foundations
Performance Standard: ELA.K.ELF.A:Fluency
Standard: ELA.K.I
Description: Read emergent-reader texts with purpose and understanding.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.ELF:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Early Learning Foundations
Performance Standard: ELA.K.ELF.C:Handwriting
Standard: ELA.K.III
Description: Print upper- and lowercase letters
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.ELF:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Early Learning Foundations
Description: Demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds (phonemes). •Recognize and produce rhyming words. •Count, pronounce, blend, and segment syllables in spoken words. •Blend and segment onsets and rimes of single-syllable spoken words. •Isolate and pronounce the initial, medial vowel, and final sounds (phonemes) in three-phoneme (consonant-vowel-consonant, or CVC) words. (This does not include CVCs ending with /l/, /r/, or /x/.) •Add or substitute individual sounds (phonemes) in simple, one-syllable words to make new words.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.ELF:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Early Learning Foundations
Performance Standard: ELA.K.ELF.E:Print concepts
Standard: ELA.K.V
Description: Demonstrate understanding of the organization and basic features of print. •Follow words from left to right, top to bottom, and page by page. •Recognize that spoken words are represented in written language by specific sequences of letters. •Understand that words are separated by spaces in print. •Recognize and name all upper- and lowercase letters of the alphabet.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.A:Key Ideas and Details
Standard: ELA.K.1
Description: With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.A:Key Ideas and Details
Standard: ELA.K.2
Description: With prompting and support, retell familiar stories, including key details.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.A:Key Ideas and Details
Standard: ELA.K.3
Description: With prompting and support, identify characters, settings, and major events in a story.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.A:Key Ideas and Details
Standard: ELA.K.4
Description: With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.A:Key Ideas and Details
Standard: ELA.K.5
Description: With prompting and support, identify the main topic and retell key details of a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.B:Craft and Structure
Standard: ELA.K.7
Description: With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about unknown words in a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.B:Craft and Structure
Standard: ELA.K.8
Description: With prompting and support, recognize common types of texts (e.g., storybooks, poems).
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.B:Craft and Structure
Standard: ELA.K.9
Description: With prompting and support, name the author and illustrator of a story and define the role of each in telling the story.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.B:Craft and Structure
Standard: ELA.K.10
Description: With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about unknown words in a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.B:Craft and Structure
Standard: ELA.K.11
Description: With prompting and support, identify the front cover, back cover, and title page of a book.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.B:Craft and Structure
Standard: ELA.K.12
Description: With prompting and support, name the author and illustrator of a text and define the role of each in presenting the ideas or information in a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.C:Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.13
Description: With prompting and support, describe the relationship between illustrations and the story in which they appear (e.g., what moment in a story an illustration depicts).
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.C:Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.14
Description: With prompting and support, compare and contrast the adventures and experiences of characters in familiar stories.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.C:Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.15
Description: With prompting and support, describe the relationship between illustrations and the text in which they appear (e.g., what person, place, thing, or idea in the text an illustration depicts).
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.C:Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.16
Description: With prompting and support, identify the reasons an author gives to support points in a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.D:Range of Reading and Text Complexity
Standard: ELA.K.18
Description: Actively engage in group reading activities with purpose and understanding.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.D:Range of Reading and Text Complexity
Standard: ELA.K.19
Description: Actively engage in group reading activities with purpose and understanding.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.RW:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Speaking and Listening
Performance Standard: ELA.K.RW.A:Comprehension and Collaboration
Standard: ELA.K.30
Description: Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about kindergarten topics and texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups. •Follow agreed-upon rules for discussions (e.g., listening to others and taking turns speaking about the topics and texts under discussion). •Continue a conversation through multiple exchanges.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.RW:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Speaking and Listening
Performance Standard: ELA.K.RW.A:Comprehension and Collaboration
Standard: ELA.K.31
Description: Confirm understanding of a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media by asking and answering questions about key details and requesting clarification if something is not understood.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.RW:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Speaking and Listening
Performance Standard: ELA.K.RW.A:Comprehension and Collaboration
Standard: ELA.K.32
Description: Ask and answer questions in order to seek help, get information, or clarify something that is not understood.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.RW:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Speaking and Listening
Performance Standard: ELA.K.RW.B:Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.33
Description: Describe familiar people, places, things, and events and, with prompting and support, provide additional detail.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.RW:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Speaking and Listening
Performance Standard: ELA.K.RW.B:Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.34
Description: Add drawings or other visual displays to descriptions as desired to provide additional detail.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.RW:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Speaking and Listening
Performance Standard: ELA.K.RW.B:Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.35
Description: Speak audibly and express thoughts, feelings, and ideas clearly.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.L:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Language
Performance Standard: ELA.K.L.A:Conventions of Standard English
Standard: ELA.K.36
Description: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking. •Print many upper- and lowercase letters. •Use frequently occurring nouns and verbs. •Form regular plural nouns orally by adding /s/ or /es/ (e.g., dog, dogs; wish, wishes). •Understand and use question words (interrogatives) (e.g., who, what, where, when, why, how). •Use the most frequently occurring prepositions (e.g., to, from, in, out, on, off, for, of, by, with). •Produce and expand complete sentences in shared language activities.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.L:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Language
Performance Standard: ELA.K.L.A:Conventions of Standard English
Standard: ELA.K.37
Description: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing. •Capitalize the first word in a sentence and the pronoun I. •Recognize and name end punctuation. •Write a letter or letters for most consonant and short-vowel sounds (phonemes). •Spell simple words phonetically, drawing on knowledge of sound-letter relationships.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: Social Studies
Strand: SS.K:West Virginia Social Studies - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: C.SS.K:Civics
Standard: SS.K.1
Description: Develop an understanding of citizenship and patriotism through a variety of experiences (e.g., appropriate behavior, sharing, taking turns, volunteering, being honest and demonstrating responsibility for materials and personal belongings).
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Social Studies
Strand: SS.K:West Virginia Social Studies - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: C.SS.K:Civics
Standard: SS.K.2
Description: Participate in role play to resolve disputes, and demonstrate tolerance and acceptance of others and their ideas.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Social Studies
Strand: SS.K:West Virginia Social Studies - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: C.SS.K:Civics
Standard: SS.K.3
Description: Investigate the need for rules in their environment, create a set of classroom rules, and explore the consequences for not following the rules.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Social Studies
Strand: SS.K:West Virginia Social Studies - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: C.SS.K:Civics
Standard: SS.K.4
Description: Investigate the leadership roles within their families, classrooms and schools and demonstrate their understanding through activities such as role play and classroom jobs.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
Student Objectives
Lesson 71
List characteristics of a frog
State the habitat of a frog
Compare a fictional frog to a real frog
Identify uppercase and lowercase Xx
Use letter-sound association for x
Read words with the phonograms _ax, _ix and _ox
Read the high-frequency words said and you
Write the letters Xx
Lesson 72
Imitate the sounds that frogs make
Sequence the life cycle of a frog
Draw a labeled picture of a new kind of frog
Identify uppercase and lowercase Zz
Use letter-sound association for Z
Read words with the phonograms _iz and _uzz
Write the letters Zz
Lesson 73
List the characteristics of a turtle
Describe how to care for a pet
Identify uppercase and lowercase Yy
Use letter-sound association for y
Read words with initial y
Write the letter y
Lesson 74
Compare and contrast ways animals protect themselves
Draw a new animal with special protection and explain how the animal will protect itself
Identify uppercase and lowercase Yy
Use letter-sound association for y
Read words with initial y
Write the letter Y
Lesson 75
Read orally with expression
Use illustrations to describe story setting
Make predictions
Evaluate whether the prediction was correct
Evaluate whether the main character's response is obedient
Lessons
Lesson 71: Frog Pond
Lesson 72: Frogs
Lesson 73: Turtles
Lesson 74: Animals Protect Themselves
Lesson 75: The Big Mess
Learning Center - Lily Pad Hop
Snack of the Week - Chocolate Turtles
Show and Tell -Encourage each student to bring a toy animal that could live by a pond
Science
Frogs
Life Cycle of the Frog
Tadpoles to Frogs
Turtles
Animals Protect Themselves
Student Terrarium
Language Arts
Phonics and English skills
Letter Recognition
Sing the Sounds
Read Word Families
Grammar
Plurals
Syllables
High-Frequency Words
Handwriting
Phonics
Phonics Practice: Fix the Mix
Phonics Fun: Make an X
Phonics Fun: Lily Pad Fun
Phonics Practice: Zack's Pet
Phonics Fun: Tortoise Talk
Phonics Fun: Animal Protection
Punctuation
Guided Reading
Activities
Sentence Roundup
God Made the Animals Book
Write Now!
Write Now! pp. 74-78
Language Arts
God Made the Animals Booklet - Frogs
Sentence Roundup
Arts and Crafts
Lily Pads
Frog Puppet
Turtle
Dragonfly
Snail
Sing a Song
Five Little Speckled Frogs
Over in the Meadow
God Made the Animals
Motor Skills
Leap Frog
Leap Like a Frog
Turtle Race
Walk Like an Animal
Biblical Integration Concepts
God is great, and God is good
God created me and all things
The Bible is God's Word, and it is true
I learn in order to serve God and others
Biblical Integration Strategies
Go through Colossians 1:8 that discusses how believers need to be filled with the knowledge of God's will and in all wisdom and understanding
Explain that God has given most wild animals natural defenses
Share the story of Paul and the poisonous snake from Acts 28:1-6; point out that God made some snakes poisonous so that they can defend themselves
Assign daily writing practice
Carefully observe students and help to develop left-to-right eye progression
Have students write new endings to familiar stories, make lists, and add labels to pictures to develop a love of writing
Emphasize the weekly topics to help students learn to focus on a topic
Posture, pencil hold, and paper slant should dominate the early handwriting lessons
Emphasize letter formation, consistent strokes, readable spacing, and neatness
Unit 3: Ants to Elephants / Week 16: Farm Animals
(updated 12/31/23)
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Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.ELF:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Early Learning Foundations
Performance Standard: ELA.K.ELF.A:Fluency
Standard: ELA.K.I
Description: Read emergent-reader texts with purpose and understanding.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.ELF:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Early Learning Foundations
Performance Standard: ELA.K.ELF.C:Handwriting
Standard: ELA.K.III
Description: Print upper- and lowercase letters
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.ELF:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Early Learning Foundations
Description: Demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds (phonemes). •Recognize and produce rhyming words. •Count, pronounce, blend, and segment syllables in spoken words. •Blend and segment onsets and rimes of single-syllable spoken words. •Isolate and pronounce the initial, medial vowel, and final sounds (phonemes) in three-phoneme (consonant-vowel-consonant, or CVC) words. (This does not include CVCs ending with /l/, /r/, or /x/.) •Add or substitute individual sounds (phonemes) in simple, one-syllable words to make new words.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.ELF:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Early Learning Foundations
Performance Standard: ELA.K.ELF.E:Print concepts
Standard: ELA.K.V
Description: Demonstrate understanding of the organization and basic features of print. •Follow words from left to right, top to bottom, and page by page. •Recognize that spoken words are represented in written language by specific sequences of letters. •Understand that words are separated by spaces in print. •Recognize and name all upper- and lowercase letters of the alphabet.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.ELF:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Early Learning Foundations
Performance Standard: ELA.K.ELF.B:Phonics and Word Recognition
Standard: ELA.K.II
Description: Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words. •Demonstrate basic knowledge of one-to-one letter-sound correspondences by producing the primary or many of the most frequent sound for each consonant. •Associate the long and short sounds with common spellings (graphemes) for the five major vowels. •Read common high-frequency words by sight (e.g., the, of, to, you, she, my, is, are, do, does). •Distinguish between similarly spelled words by identifying the sounds of the letters that differ.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.A:Key Ideas and Details
Standard: ELA.K.1
Description: With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.A:Key Ideas and Details
Standard: ELA.K.2
Description: With prompting and support, retell familiar stories, including key details.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.A:Key Ideas and Details
Standard: ELA.K.3
Description: With prompting and support, identify characters, settings, and major events in a story.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.A:Key Ideas and Details
Standard: ELA.K.4
Description: With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.A:Key Ideas and Details
Standard: ELA.K.5
Description: With prompting and support, identify the main topic and retell key details of a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.A:Key Ideas and Details
Standard: ELA.K.6
Description: With prompting and support, describe the connection between two individuals, events, ideas, or pieces of information in a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.B:Craft and Structure
Standard: ELA.K.7
Description: With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about unknown words in a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.B:Craft and Structure
Standard: ELA.K.8
Description: With prompting and support, recognize common types of texts (e.g., storybooks, poems).
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.B:Craft and Structure
Standard: ELA.K.9
Description: With prompting and support, name the author and illustrator of a story and define the role of each in telling the story.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.B:Craft and Structure
Standard: ELA.K.10
Description: With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about unknown words in a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.B:Craft and Structure
Standard: ELA.K.11
Description: With prompting and support, identify the front cover, back cover, and title page of a book.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.C:Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.13
Description: With prompting and support, describe the relationship between illustrations and the story in which they appear (e.g., what moment in a story an illustration depicts).
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.C:Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.14
Description: With prompting and support, compare and contrast the adventures and experiences of characters in familiar stories.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.C:Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.15
Description: With prompting and support, describe the relationship between illustrations and the text in which they appear (e.g., what person, place, thing, or idea in the text an illustration depicts).
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.C:Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.16
Description: With prompting and support, identify the reasons an author gives to support points in a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.D:Range of Reading and Text Complexity
Standard: ELA.K.18
Description: Actively engage in group reading activities with purpose and understanding.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.D:Range of Reading and Text Complexity
Standard: ELA.K.19
Description: Actively engage in group reading activities with purpose and understanding.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.RW:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Speaking and Listening
Performance Standard: ELA.K.RW.A:Comprehension and Collaboration
Standard: ELA.K.30
Description: Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about kindergarten topics and texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups. •Follow agreed-upon rules for discussions (e.g., listening to others and taking turns speaking about the topics and texts under discussion). •Continue a conversation through multiple exchanges.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.RW:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Speaking and Listening
Performance Standard: ELA.K.RW.A:Comprehension and Collaboration
Standard: ELA.K.31
Description: Confirm understanding of a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media by asking and answering questions about key details and requesting clarification if something is not understood.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.RW:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Speaking and Listening
Performance Standard: ELA.K.RW.A:Comprehension and Collaboration
Standard: ELA.K.32
Description: Ask and answer questions in order to seek help, get information, or clarify something that is not understood.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.RW:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Speaking and Listening
Performance Standard: ELA.K.RW.B:Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.33
Description: Describe familiar people, places, things, and events and, with prompting and support, provide additional detail.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.RW:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Speaking and Listening
Performance Standard: ELA.K.RW.B:Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.34
Description: Add drawings or other visual displays to descriptions as desired to provide additional detail.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.RW:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Speaking and Listening
Performance Standard: ELA.K.RW.B:Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.35
Description: Speak audibly and express thoughts, feelings, and ideas clearly.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.L:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Language
Performance Standard: ELA.K.L.A:Conventions of Standard English
Standard: ELA.K.36
Description: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking. •Print many upper- and lowercase letters. •Use frequently occurring nouns and verbs. •Form regular plural nouns orally by adding /s/ or /es/ (e.g., dog, dogs; wish, wishes). •Understand and use question words (interrogatives) (e.g., who, what, where, when, why, how). •Use the most frequently occurring prepositions (e.g., to, from, in, out, on, off, for, of, by, with). •Produce and expand complete sentences in shared language activities.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.L:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Language
Performance Standard: ELA.K.L.A:Conventions of Standard English
Standard: ELA.K.37
Description: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing. •Capitalize the first word in a sentence and the pronoun I. •Recognize and name end punctuation. •Write a letter or letters for most consonant and short-vowel sounds (phonemes). •Spell simple words phonetically, drawing on knowledge of sound-letter relationships.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: Social Studies
Strand: SS.K:West Virginia Social Studies - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: C.SS.K:Civics
Standard: SS.K.1
Description: Develop an understanding of citizenship and patriotism through a variety of experiences (e.g., appropriate behavior, sharing, taking turns, volunteering, being honest and demonstrating responsibility for materials and personal belongings).
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Social Studies
Strand: SS.K:West Virginia Social Studies - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: C.SS.K:Civics
Standard: SS.K.3
Description: Investigate the need for rules in their environment, create a set of classroom rules, and explore the consequences for not following the rules.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Social Studies
Strand: SS.K:West Virginia Social Studies - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: C.SS.K:Civics
Standard: SS.K.4
Description: Investigate the leadership roles within their families, classrooms and schools and demonstrate their understanding through activities such as role play and classroom jobs.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Social Studies
Strand: SS.K:West Virginia Social Studies - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: G.SS.K:Geography
Standard: SS.K.13
Description: Investigate the need for symbols in daily life (e.g., exit, stop sign, bathroom signs, school zone, stop light, etc.).
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
Student Objectives
Lesson 76
Compare cows and calves
Describe some of the jobs of a farmer
Identify uppercase and lowercase Qq
Use letter-sound association for qu
Read the high-frequency word to
Read words with initial qu
Write the letter q
Lesson 77
Compare and contrast a small family farm and a commercial farm
State products that come from a dairy farm
Participate in a butter-making activity
Contribute in a shared-writing activity about a butter-making activity
Identify uppercase and lowercase Qq
Use letter-sound association for qu
Read words with initial qu
Write the letter Q
Lesson 78
Describe how to make and use a pinata
Describe the characteristics of a pig
Sequence events in a story
Identify the five vowels
Read words with short vowels
Write short vowel words
Lesson 79
Describe the habitat of a pig
Dictate a sentence using descriptive words
Read words with short vowels
Identify lowercase letters
Identify the five vowels
Review letter-sound associations
Write a sentence
Review all High-Frequency Words
Lesson 80
Determine story settings from pictures
Read expressions on the faces of characters
Read orally with excitement
Use Ephesians 4:32 to evaluate the behavior of the characters
Lessons
Lesson 76: Grandpa's Farm
Lesson 77: The Dairy Farm
Lesson 78: Rosa's Pig
Lesson 79: Muddy Pig
Lesson 80: Zack the Duck
Learning Center - Barnyard Puzzles
Snack of the Week -Purple Cows
Show and Tell -Encourage each student to bring a toy farm animal
Heritage Studies
Cows and Calves
At the Dairy
Pig Fun
Language Arts
Phonics and English Skills
Letter Recognition - vowels
Sing the Sounds
Read Word Families
Guided Reading
High-Frequency Words
Handwriting
Spelling
Phonics
Phonics Practice: Mothers
Phonics Fun: Gathering Eggs
Phonics Fun: Nibbling Cheese
Phonics Practice: Ruff
Phonics Fun: Break the Pinata
Phonics Fun: Fun in the Mud
Activities
God Made the Animals Booklet
Sentence Roundup
Grammar
Compound Words
Plural Nouns
Write Now!
Write Now pp. 79-83
Motor Skills
Balance the Animal
Farm animal Tag
Animal Sounds
Find the Pig
Fill the Barn
Science
Classifying Animals
Loud and Quiet
Pigs and Mud
Animal Guess
Arts and Crafts
Quilt
Pig Pinata
Muddy Boots
God Made the Animals Booklet - Pig
A Model Farm
Sing a Song
Old MacDonald
Making Butter
M-U-D
Biblical Integration Concepts
God is great, and God is good
God created me and all things
The Bible is God's Word, and it is true
I learn in order to serve God and others
Biblical Integration Strategies
Tell the story of the prodigal son (Luke 15:11-24); emphasize how he worked as he fed the pigs on a farm
Use the biblical worldview themes visual to reinforce the themes throughout the year
Group students for differentiated reading instruction
Establish routine behaviors in the reading groups as well as in the entire class
Set up purposeful and specific learning centers
Teach students the daily schedule and how to switch effortlessly between learning centers
Unit 4: Mountains High to Oceans Deep / Week 17: Mountains
(updated 12/11/23)
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.ELF:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Early Learning Foundations
Performance Standard: ELA.K.ELF.A:Fluency
Standard: ELA.K.I
Description: Read emergent-reader texts with purpose and understanding.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.ELF:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Early Learning Foundations
Performance Standard: ELA.K.ELF.B:Phonics and Word Recognition
Standard: ELA.K.II
Description: Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words. •Demonstrate basic knowledge of one-to-one letter-sound correspondences by producing the primary or many of the most frequent sound for each consonant. •Associate the long and short sounds with common spellings (graphemes) for the five major vowels. •Read common high-frequency words by sight (e.g., the, of, to, you, she, my, is, are, do, does). •Distinguish between similarly spelled words by identifying the sounds of the letters that differ.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.ELF:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Early Learning Foundations
Performance Standard: ELA.K.ELF.C:Handwriting
Standard: ELA.K.III
Description: Print upper- and lowercase letters
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.ELF:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Early Learning Foundations
Description: Demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds (phonemes). •Recognize and produce rhyming words. •Count, pronounce, blend, and segment syllables in spoken words. •Blend and segment onsets and rimes of single-syllable spoken words. •Isolate and pronounce the initial, medial vowel, and final sounds (phonemes) in three-phoneme (consonant-vowel-consonant, or CVC) words. (This does not include CVCs ending with /l/, /r/, or /x/.) •Add or substitute individual sounds (phonemes) in simple, one-syllable words to make new words.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.ELF:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Early Learning Foundations
Performance Standard: ELA.K.ELF.E:Print concepts
Standard: ELA.K.V
Description: Demonstrate understanding of the organization and basic features of print. •Follow words from left to right, top to bottom, and page by page. •Recognize that spoken words are represented in written language by specific sequences of letters. •Understand that words are separated by spaces in print. •Recognize and name all upper- and lowercase letters of the alphabet.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.A:Key Ideas and Details
Standard: ELA.K.1
Description: With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.A:Key Ideas and Details
Standard: ELA.K.2
Description: With prompting and support, retell familiar stories, including key details.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.A:Key Ideas and Details
Standard: ELA.K.3
Description: With prompting and support, identify characters, settings, and major events in a story.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.A:Key Ideas and Details
Standard: ELA.K.4
Description: With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.A:Key Ideas and Details
Standard: ELA.K.5
Description: With prompting and support, identify the main topic and retell key details of a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.A:Key Ideas and Details
Standard: ELA.K.6
Description: With prompting and support, describe the connection between two individuals, events, ideas, or pieces of information in a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.B:Craft and Structure
Standard: ELA.K.7
Description: With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about unknown words in a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.B:Craft and Structure
Standard: ELA.K.8
Description: With prompting and support, recognize common types of texts (e.g., storybooks, poems).
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.B:Craft and Structure
Standard: ELA.K.9
Description: With prompting and support, name the author and illustrator of a story and define the role of each in telling the story.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.B:Craft and Structure
Standard: ELA.K.10
Description: With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about unknown words in a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.B:Craft and Structure
Standard: ELA.K.11
Description: With prompting and support, identify the front cover, back cover, and title page of a book.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.B:Craft and Structure
Standard: ELA.K.12
Description: With prompting and support, name the author and illustrator of a text and define the role of each in presenting the ideas or information in a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.C:Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.13
Description: With prompting and support, describe the relationship between illustrations and the story in which they appear (e.g., what moment in a story an illustration depicts).
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.C:Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.14
Description: With prompting and support, compare and contrast the adventures and experiences of characters in familiar stories.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.C:Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.15
Description: With prompting and support, describe the relationship between illustrations and the text in which they appear (e.g., what person, place, thing, or idea in the text an illustration depicts).
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.C:Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.16
Description: With prompting and support, identify the reasons an author gives to support points in a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.D:Range of Reading and Text Complexity
Standard: ELA.K.18
Description: Actively engage in group reading activities with purpose and understanding.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.D:Range of Reading and Text Complexity
Standard: ELA.K.19
Description: Actively engage in group reading activities with purpose and understanding.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.W:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Writing
Performance Standard: ELA.K.W.A:Text Types and Purposes
Standard: ELA.K.20
Description: Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to compose opinion pieces in which they tell a reader the topic or the name of the book they are writing about and state an opinion or preference about the topic or book (e.g., My favorite book is . . .).
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.W:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Writing
Performance Standard: ELA.K.W.A:Text Types and Purposes
Standard: ELA.K.22
Description: Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to narrate a single event or several loosely linked events, tell about the events in the order in which they occurred, and provide a reaction to what happened.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.W:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Writing
Performance Standard: ELA.K.W.B:Production and Distribution of Writing
Standard: ELA.K.24
Description: With guidance and support from adults, respond to questions and suggestions from peers and add details to strengthen writing as needed.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.RW:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Speaking and Listening
Performance Standard: ELA.K.RW.A:Comprehension and Collaboration
Standard: ELA.K.30
Description: Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about kindergarten topics and texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups. •Follow agreed-upon rules for discussions (e.g., listening to others and taking turns speaking about the topics and texts under discussion). •Continue a conversation through multiple exchanges.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.RW:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Speaking and Listening
Performance Standard: ELA.K.RW.A:Comprehension and Collaboration
Standard: ELA.K.31
Description: Confirm understanding of a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media by asking and answering questions about key details and requesting clarification if something is not understood.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.RW:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Speaking and Listening
Performance Standard: ELA.K.RW.A:Comprehension and Collaboration
Standard: ELA.K.32
Description: Ask and answer questions in order to seek help, get information, or clarify something that is not understood.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.RW:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Speaking and Listening
Performance Standard: ELA.K.RW.B:Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.33
Description: Describe familiar people, places, things, and events and, with prompting and support, provide additional detail.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.RW:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Speaking and Listening
Performance Standard: ELA.K.RW.B:Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.34
Description: Add drawings or other visual displays to descriptions as desired to provide additional detail.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.RW:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Speaking and Listening
Performance Standard: ELA.K.RW.B:Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.35
Description: Speak audibly and express thoughts, feelings, and ideas clearly.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.L:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Language
Performance Standard: ELA.K.L.A:Conventions of Standard English
Standard: ELA.K.36
Description: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking. •Print many upper- and lowercase letters. •Use frequently occurring nouns and verbs. •Form regular plural nouns orally by adding /s/ or /es/ (e.g., dog, dogs; wish, wishes). •Understand and use question words (interrogatives) (e.g., who, what, where, when, why, how). •Use the most frequently occurring prepositions (e.g., to, from, in, out, on, off, for, of, by, with). •Produce and expand complete sentences in shared language activities.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.L:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Language
Performance Standard: ELA.K.L.A:Conventions of Standard English
Standard: ELA.K.37
Description: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing. •Capitalize the first word in a sentence and the pronoun I. •Recognize and name end punctuation. •Write a letter or letters for most consonant and short-vowel sounds (phonemes). •Spell simple words phonetically, drawing on knowledge of sound-letter relationships.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.L:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Language
Performance Standard: ELA.K.L.C:Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
Standard: ELA.K.39
Description: Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on kindergarten reading and content. •Identify new meanings for familiar words and apply them accurately (e.g., knowing duck is a bird and learning the verb to duck). •Introduce the most frequently occurring inflections and affixes (e.g., -ed, -s, re-, un-, pre-, -ful, -less) as a clue to the meaning of an unknown word.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.L:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Language
Performance Standard: ELA.K.L.C:Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
Standard: ELA.K.40
Description: With guidance and support from adults, explore word relationships and nuances in word meanings. •Sort common objects into categories (e.g., shapes, foods) to gain a sense of the concepts the categories represent. •Demonstrate understanding of frequently occurring verbs and adjectives by relating them to their opposites (antonyms). •Identify real-life connections between words and their use (e.g., note places at school that are colorful). •Distinguish shades of meaning among verbs describing the same general action (e.g., walk, march, strut, prance) by acting out the meanings.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.L:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Language
Performance Standard: ELA.K.L.C:Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
Standard: ELA.K.41
Description: Use words and phrases acquired through conversations, reading and being read to, and responding to texts.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: Social Studies
Strand: SS.K:West Virginia Social Studies - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: C.SS.K:Civics
Standard: SS.K.1
Description: Develop an understanding of citizenship and patriotism through a variety of experiences (e.g., appropriate behavior, sharing, taking turns, volunteering, being honest and demonstrating responsibility for materials and personal belongings).
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Social Studies
Strand: SS.K:West Virginia Social Studies - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: C.SS.K:Civics
Standard: SS.K.2
Description: Participate in role play to resolve disputes, and demonstrate tolerance and acceptance of others and their ideas.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Social Studies
Strand: SS.K:West Virginia Social Studies - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: C.SS.K:Civics
Standard: SS.K.3
Description: Investigate the need for rules in their environment, create a set of classroom rules, and explore the consequences for not following the rules.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Social Studies
Strand: SS.K:West Virginia Social Studies - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: C.SS.K:Civics
Standard: SS.K.4
Description: Investigate the leadership roles within their families, classrooms and schools and demonstrate their understanding through activities such as role play and classroom jobs.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Social Studies
Strand: SS.K:West Virginia Social Studies - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: E.SS.K:Economics
Standard: SS.K.5
Description: Investigate occupations within the school and local community.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Social Studies
Strand: SS.K:West Virginia Social Studies - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: E.SS.K:Economics
Standard: SS.K.6
Description: Discover the basic needs of people (e.g., shelter, food, clothing, etc.) and give examples of each.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Social Studies
Strand: SS.K:West Virginia Social Studies - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: E.SS.K:Economics
Standard: SS.K.8
Description: Distinguish between wants and needs.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Social Studies
Strand: SS.K:West Virginia Social Studies - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: H.SS.K:History
Standard: SS.K.14
Description: Illustrate personal history (e.g., first and last name, birthday, age, guardian's name, and other personal data).
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Social Studies
Strand: SS.K:West Virginia Social Studies - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: H.SS.K:History
Standard: SS.K.15
Description: Explore the history of the school and give examples of significant sites and people (e.g., principals, secretaries, teachers, custodians, etc.).
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Social Studies
Strand: SS.K:West Virginia Social Studies - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: H.SS.K:History
Standard: SS.K.16
Description: Investigate the past and explore the differences in other people, times and cultures through stories of people, heroes, pictures, songs, holidays, customs, traditions or legends.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
Student Objectives
Lesson 81
Identify the characteristics of mountains
Identify mountains nearby
Explain how mountains show God's glory
State that the heavens declare the glory of God and the firmament shows His handwork
Identify words with initial s blends: sm, sp, and st
Read words with the phonogram _em
Read the high frequency words there and was
Write st
State that we learn phonics in order to learn about God
Lesson 82
Identify characteristics of volcanoes
Make a model volcano
Dictate sentences for a shared writing activity
Identify words with initial r blends: br, cr, and gr
Demonstrate the use of a period and question mark
Read words with the phonogram _ass
Write gr
Lesson 83
Explain that folk music reflects culture
Identify the kinds of instruments used to play folk music
Read words with the phonograms _and, _end, _ind, _ond, _ant, _ent, and _int
Write nd
Lesson 84
Explain the history of gold mining
Participate in panning for gold
Complete a creative-writing activity
Read words with the phonograms _amp, __imp, and __ump
Write mp
Lesson 85
Infer story setting from pictures
Identify a describing word in a sentence
Read a sentence with a question mark using appropriate inflection
Lessons
Lesson 81: Mountain Hike
Lesson 82: Mountains and Volcanoes
Lesson 83: Mountain Music
Lesson 84: Mountain Treasures
Lesson 85: Up to the Top
Learning Center - Panning for Gold
Snack of the Week - Trail Mix
Show and Tell - Encourage the students to bring something that makes or plays a sound
Finding the Patterns- Use Phonics and Review Cards to spell the various words
Heritage Studies
Folk Music
Hills of Gold
Language Arts
Phonics and English Skills
Sing the Sounds
Hear the Sounds
Read Word Families
High-Frequency Words
Handwriting
Vocabulary Punctuation
Phonics
Phonics Practice: Stuck
Phonics Fun: Climb the Mountain
Phonics Fun: Smoking Volcano
Phonics Practice - At a Tent
Phonics Fun: Spin a Tune
Phonics Fun: Gold Bricks
Activity
Sentence Roundup
Mountain Lion Growl
A Game from Long Ago: Poor Doggie
Tic-Tac-Toe
Family Names
Science
Volatile Volcanoes
Bottle Band
Arts and Crafts
Why God Made Green
Kazoo
Golden Ring or Bracelet
Motor Skills
A Game from Long Ago: Drop the Handkerchief
A Game from Long Ago: Ducks Fly
Gold Nuggets
Buzz Saw
Write Now!
Write Now! pp. 84-88
Sing a Song
My God Is So Big
Climb, Climb Up Sunshine Mountain
The Bear Went Over the Mountain
America, Land That I Love
Froggie Went-a Courtin'
Biblical Integration Concepts
God is great, and God is good
God created me and all things
The Bible is God's Word, and it is true
I learn in order to serve God and others.
Biblical Integration Strategies
Tell the story of David and his harp (1 Samuel 16:14-23); explain that David's harp was more like the mountain music instrument than the large harp we usually see today
Guide a discussion about the Bible; explain why it is a treasure given to us by God; sing "Holy Bible, Book Divine"
Have students work through worktext and phonics practice pages
Handwriting pages should be completed daily
Display the Alphabet Song Chart
Mount the Handwriting Chart in the front of the classroom
Have students work daily with the Spelling Cards, High-Frequency Word Cards, and the Word-Family Cards
Unit 4: Mountains High to Oceans Deep / Week 18: The Prairie
(updated 12/11/23)
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.ELF:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Early Learning Foundations
Performance Standard: ELA.K.ELF.A:Fluency
Standard: ELA.K.I
Description: Read emergent-reader texts with purpose and understanding.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.ELF:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Early Learning Foundations
Performance Standard: ELA.K.ELF.B:Phonics and Word Recognition
Standard: ELA.K.II
Description: Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words. •Demonstrate basic knowledge of one-to-one letter-sound correspondences by producing the primary or many of the most frequent sound for each consonant. •Associate the long and short sounds with common spellings (graphemes) for the five major vowels. •Read common high-frequency words by sight (e.g., the, of, to, you, she, my, is, are, do, does). •Distinguish between similarly spelled words by identifying the sounds of the letters that differ.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.ELF:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Early Learning Foundations
Performance Standard: ELA.K.ELF.C:Handwriting
Standard: ELA.K.III
Description: Print upper- and lowercase letters
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.ELF:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Early Learning Foundations
Description: Demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds (phonemes). •Recognize and produce rhyming words. •Count, pronounce, blend, and segment syllables in spoken words. •Blend and segment onsets and rimes of single-syllable spoken words. •Isolate and pronounce the initial, medial vowel, and final sounds (phonemes) in three-phoneme (consonant-vowel-consonant, or CVC) words. (This does not include CVCs ending with /l/, /r/, or /x/.) •Add or substitute individual sounds (phonemes) in simple, one-syllable words to make new words.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.ELF:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Early Learning Foundations
Performance Standard: ELA.K.ELF.E:Print concepts
Standard: ELA.K.V
Description: Demonstrate understanding of the organization and basic features of print. •Follow words from left to right, top to bottom, and page by page. •Recognize that spoken words are represented in written language by specific sequences of letters. •Understand that words are separated by spaces in print. •Recognize and name all upper- and lowercase letters of the alphabet.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.A:Key Ideas and Details
Standard: ELA.K.1
Description: With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.A:Key Ideas and Details
Standard: ELA.K.2
Description: With prompting and support, retell familiar stories, including key details.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.A:Key Ideas and Details
Standard: ELA.K.3
Description: With prompting and support, identify characters, settings, and major events in a story.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.A:Key Ideas and Details
Standard: ELA.K.4
Description: With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.A:Key Ideas and Details
Standard: ELA.K.5
Description: With prompting and support, identify the main topic and retell key details of a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.A:Key Ideas and Details
Standard: ELA.K.6
Description: With prompting and support, describe the connection between two individuals, events, ideas, or pieces of information in a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.B:Craft and Structure
Standard: ELA.K.7
Description: With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about unknown words in a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.B:Craft and Structure
Standard: ELA.K.8
Description: With prompting and support, recognize common types of texts (e.g., storybooks, poems).
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.B:Craft and Structure
Standard: ELA.K.9
Description: With prompting and support, name the author and illustrator of a story and define the role of each in telling the story.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.B:Craft and Structure
Standard: ELA.K.10
Description: With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about unknown words in a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.B:Craft and Structure
Standard: ELA.K.11
Description: With prompting and support, identify the front cover, back cover, and title page of a book.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.B:Craft and Structure
Standard: ELA.K.12
Description: With prompting and support, name the author and illustrator of a text and define the role of each in presenting the ideas or information in a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.C:Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.13
Description: With prompting and support, describe the relationship between illustrations and the story in which they appear (e.g., what moment in a story an illustration depicts).
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.C:Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.14
Description: With prompting and support, compare and contrast the adventures and experiences of characters in familiar stories.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.C:Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.15
Description: With prompting and support, describe the relationship between illustrations and the text in which they appear (e.g., what person, place, thing, or idea in the text an illustration depicts).
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.C:Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.16
Description: With prompting and support, identify the reasons an author gives to support points in a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.D:Range of Reading and Text Complexity
Standard: ELA.K.18
Description: Actively engage in group reading activities with purpose and understanding.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.D:Range of Reading and Text Complexity
Standard: ELA.K.19
Description: Actively engage in group reading activities with purpose and understanding.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.RW:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Speaking and Listening
Performance Standard: ELA.K.RW.A:Comprehension and Collaboration
Standard: ELA.K.30
Description: Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about kindergarten topics and texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups. •Follow agreed-upon rules for discussions (e.g., listening to others and taking turns speaking about the topics and texts under discussion). •Continue a conversation through multiple exchanges.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.RW:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Speaking and Listening
Performance Standard: ELA.K.RW.A:Comprehension and Collaboration
Standard: ELA.K.31
Description: Confirm understanding of a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media by asking and answering questions about key details and requesting clarification if something is not understood.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.RW:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Speaking and Listening
Performance Standard: ELA.K.RW.A:Comprehension and Collaboration
Standard: ELA.K.32
Description: Ask and answer questions in order to seek help, get information, or clarify something that is not understood.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.RW:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Speaking and Listening
Performance Standard: ELA.K.RW.B:Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.33
Description: Describe familiar people, places, things, and events and, with prompting and support, provide additional detail.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.RW:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Speaking and Listening
Performance Standard: ELA.K.RW.B:Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.34
Description: Add drawings or other visual displays to descriptions as desired to provide additional detail.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.RW:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Speaking and Listening
Performance Standard: ELA.K.RW.B:Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.35
Description: Speak audibly and express thoughts, feelings, and ideas clearly.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.L:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Language
Performance Standard: ELA.K.L.A:Conventions of Standard English
Standard: ELA.K.36
Description: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking. •Print many upper- and lowercase letters. •Use frequently occurring nouns and verbs. •Form regular plural nouns orally by adding /s/ or /es/ (e.g., dog, dogs; wish, wishes). •Understand and use question words (interrogatives) (e.g., who, what, where, when, why, how). •Use the most frequently occurring prepositions (e.g., to, from, in, out, on, off, for, of, by, with). •Produce and expand complete sentences in shared language activities.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.L:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Language
Performance Standard: ELA.K.L.A:Conventions of Standard English
Standard: ELA.K.37
Description: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing. •Capitalize the first word in a sentence and the pronoun I. •Recognize and name end punctuation. •Write a letter or letters for most consonant and short-vowel sounds (phonemes). •Spell simple words phonetically, drawing on knowledge of sound-letter relationships.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.L:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Language
Performance Standard: ELA.K.L.C:Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
Standard: ELA.K.39
Description: Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on kindergarten reading and content. •Identify new meanings for familiar words and apply them accurately (e.g., knowing duck is a bird and learning the verb to duck). •Introduce the most frequently occurring inflections and affixes (e.g., -ed, -s, re-, un-, pre-, -ful, -less) as a clue to the meaning of an unknown word.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.L:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Language
Performance Standard: ELA.K.L.C:Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
Standard: ELA.K.40
Description: With guidance and support from adults, explore word relationships and nuances in word meanings. •Sort common objects into categories (e.g., shapes, foods) to gain a sense of the concepts the categories represent. •Demonstrate understanding of frequently occurring verbs and adjectives by relating them to their opposites (antonyms). •Identify real-life connections between words and their use (e.g., note places at school that are colorful). •Distinguish shades of meaning among verbs describing the same general action (e.g., walk, march, strut, prance) by acting out the meanings.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.L:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Language
Performance Standard: ELA.K.L.C:Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
Standard: ELA.K.41
Description: Use words and phrases acquired through conversations, reading and being read to, and responding to texts.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: Social Studies
Strand: SS.K:West Virginia Social Studies - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: C.SS.K:Civics
Standard: SS.K.1
Description: Develop an understanding of citizenship and patriotism through a variety of experiences (e.g., appropriate behavior, sharing, taking turns, volunteering, being honest and demonstrating responsibility for materials and personal belongings).
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Social Studies
Strand: SS.K:West Virginia Social Studies - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: C.SS.K:Civics
Standard: SS.K.2
Description: Participate in role play to resolve disputes, and demonstrate tolerance and acceptance of others and their ideas.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Social Studies
Strand: SS.K:West Virginia Social Studies - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: C.SS.K:Civics
Standard: SS.K.3
Description: Investigate the need for rules in their environment, create a set of classroom rules, and explore the consequences for not following the rules.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Social Studies
Strand: SS.K:West Virginia Social Studies - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: C.SS.K:Civics
Standard: SS.K.4
Description: Investigate the leadership roles within their families, classrooms and schools and demonstrate their understanding through activities such as role play and classroom jobs.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Social Studies
Strand: SS.K:West Virginia Social Studies - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: G.SS.K:Geography
Standard: SS.K.11
Description: Compare and contrast the ways humans adapt based on seasons and weather.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Social Studies
Strand: SS.K:West Virginia Social Studies - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: G.SS.K:Geography
Standard: SS.K.13
Description: Investigate the need for symbols in daily life (e.g., exit, stop sign, bathroom signs, school zone, stop light, etc.).
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
Student Objectives
Lesson 86
Identify the covered wagon as a mode of transportation used in the past
Compare and contrast the covered wagon with modern forms of transportation
Identify words with initial l blends: bl, cl, and sl
Read the high-frequency word want
Write cl
Lesson 87
Describe the Native Americans' way of life
Compare and contrast Native American life with modern life
Make a model of a tepee
Participate in a shared writing activity
Identify words with initial s blends and initial w blends: sc, sk, sm, sw, and tw
Write sn
Lesson 88
Describe prairie dogs and their habitat
Explain that God created prairie dogs to know how to survive
Read words with the phonograms _ast, _est, _ist, _ost, _ust, _ask, and _esk
Write sk
Lesson 89
Compare prairie life to modern life
Complete a creative-writing activity
Place a breve over short vowels
Read words with the phonograms _eld, _elf, _elp, _elt, and _ilk
Write lk
Lesson 90
Infer action in pictures
Predict outcomes
Make inferences
Read simple sentences
Lessons
Lesson 86: The Covered Wagon
Lesson 87: Native Americans
Lesson 88: Prairie Dogs
Lesson 89: Little Prairie Home
Lesson 90: Tim and Clip
Learning Center - Feathers in Your Cap
Snack of the Week - Haystacks
Show and Tell - Encourage each student to bring something that reminds him of the prairie or Native Americans
Heritage Studies
Pioneer Travel
Native Americans
Life on the Prairie
Prairie Picnics
Language Arts
Phonics and English Skills
Sing the Sounds
Hear the Sounds: Blends
Read Word Families
High-Frequency Words
Handwriting
Phonics
Phonics Practice: Clip, Clap
Phonics Fun: Wagon Train
Phonics Fun: tepee Art
Phonics Practice: Grant Slid
Phonics Fun: Prairie Dog Town
Phonics Fun: Pretty Wildflowers
Activity
Tic-Tac-Toe
Hand Game
Picture Word Match
Sentence Roundup
Write Now!
Write Now! pp. 89-93
Arts and Crafts
Quilt
Native American Vest
Prairie Dog
Beaded Necklace
Prairie Dog Town
Science
An Animal on the Prairie
Prairie Dogs
Motor Skills
A Game from Long Ago: Hop and Jump
Wildflower Seeds
Embroidery Hoop Toss Game
Sing a Song
The Covered Wagon
Ten Little Indians
My Prairie Dog
Biblical Integration Concepts
God is great, and God is good
God created me and all things
The Bible is God's Word, and it is true
I learn in order to serve God and others
Biblical Integration Strategies
Tell the story of the Israelites traveling from Egypt (Exodus 13:17-22)
Establish a specific daily schedule
Post the daily schedule on the wall and encourage students to refer to it
Select enrichment ideas from the Extended Activities
Use Review for You and Let's Check pages in phonics practice to measure general phonics progress
Use Checkup Stations for further evaluation
Utilize Christian content
Include pictures of art that match the content
Encourage students to predict the outcome of the stories
Use questions and comments for each line of the story and help the student anticipate a message every time they read
Allow students time for silent reading
Help determine the level of students' understanding by asking them higher-order thinking questions
Unit 4: Mountains High to Oceans Deep / Week 19: Rivers and Lakes
(updated 12/11/23)
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.ELF:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Early Learning Foundations
Performance Standard: ELA.K.ELF.A:Fluency
Standard: ELA.K.I
Description: Read emergent-reader texts with purpose and understanding.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.ELF:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Early Learning Foundations
Performance Standard: ELA.K.ELF.B:Phonics and Word Recognition
Standard: ELA.K.II
Description: Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words. •Demonstrate basic knowledge of one-to-one letter-sound correspondences by producing the primary or many of the most frequent sound for each consonant. •Associate the long and short sounds with common spellings (graphemes) for the five major vowels. •Read common high-frequency words by sight (e.g., the, of, to, you, she, my, is, are, do, does). •Distinguish between similarly spelled words by identifying the sounds of the letters that differ.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.ELF:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Early Learning Foundations
Performance Standard: ELA.K.ELF.C:Handwriting
Standard: ELA.K.III
Description: Print upper- and lowercase letters
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.ELF:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Early Learning Foundations
Description: Demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds (phonemes). •Recognize and produce rhyming words. •Count, pronounce, blend, and segment syllables in spoken words. •Blend and segment onsets and rimes of single-syllable spoken words. •Isolate and pronounce the initial, medial vowel, and final sounds (phonemes) in three-phoneme (consonant-vowel-consonant, or CVC) words. (This does not include CVCs ending with /l/, /r/, or /x/.) •Add or substitute individual sounds (phonemes) in simple, one-syllable words to make new words.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.ELF:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Early Learning Foundations
Performance Standard: ELA.K.ELF.E:Print concepts
Standard: ELA.K.V
Description: Demonstrate understanding of the organization and basic features of print. •Follow words from left to right, top to bottom, and page by page. •Recognize that spoken words are represented in written language by specific sequences of letters. •Understand that words are separated by spaces in print. •Recognize and name all upper- and lowercase letters of the alphabet.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.A:Key Ideas and Details
Standard: ELA.K.1
Description: With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.A:Key Ideas and Details
Standard: ELA.K.2
Description: With prompting and support, retell familiar stories, including key details.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.A:Key Ideas and Details
Standard: ELA.K.3
Description: With prompting and support, identify characters, settings, and major events in a story.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.A:Key Ideas and Details
Standard: ELA.K.4
Description: With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.A:Key Ideas and Details
Standard: ELA.K.5
Description: With prompting and support, identify the main topic and retell key details of a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.A:Key Ideas and Details
Standard: ELA.K.6
Description: With prompting and support, describe the connection between two individuals, events, ideas, or pieces of information in a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.B:Craft and Structure
Standard: ELA.K.7
Description: With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about unknown words in a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.B:Craft and Structure
Standard: ELA.K.8
Description: With prompting and support, recognize common types of texts (e.g., storybooks, poems).
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.B:Craft and Structure
Standard: ELA.K.9
Description: With prompting and support, name the author and illustrator of a story and define the role of each in telling the story.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.B:Craft and Structure
Standard: ELA.K.10
Description: With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about unknown words in a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.B:Craft and Structure
Standard: ELA.K.11
Description: With prompting and support, identify the front cover, back cover, and title page of a book.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.C:Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.13
Description: With prompting and support, describe the relationship between illustrations and the story in which they appear (e.g., what moment in a story an illustration depicts).
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.C:Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.14
Description: With prompting and support, compare and contrast the adventures and experiences of characters in familiar stories.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.C:Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.15
Description: With prompting and support, describe the relationship between illustrations and the text in which they appear (e.g., what person, place, thing, or idea in the text an illustration depicts).
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.C:Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.16
Description: With prompting and support, identify the reasons an author gives to support points in a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.D:Range of Reading and Text Complexity
Standard: ELA.K.19
Description: Actively engage in group reading activities with purpose and understanding.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.RW:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Speaking and Listening
Performance Standard: ELA.K.RW.A:Comprehension and Collaboration
Standard: ELA.K.30
Description: Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about kindergarten topics and texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups. •Follow agreed-upon rules for discussions (e.g., listening to others and taking turns speaking about the topics and texts under discussion). •Continue a conversation through multiple exchanges.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.RW:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Speaking and Listening
Performance Standard: ELA.K.RW.A:Comprehension and Collaboration
Standard: ELA.K.31
Description: Confirm understanding of a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media by asking and answering questions about key details and requesting clarification if something is not understood.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.RW:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Speaking and Listening
Performance Standard: ELA.K.RW.A:Comprehension and Collaboration
Standard: ELA.K.32
Description: Ask and answer questions in order to seek help, get information, or clarify something that is not understood.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.RW:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Speaking and Listening
Performance Standard: ELA.K.RW.B:Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.33
Description: Describe familiar people, places, things, and events and, with prompting and support, provide additional detail.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.RW:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Speaking and Listening
Performance Standard: ELA.K.RW.B:Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.34
Description: Add drawings or other visual displays to descriptions as desired to provide additional detail.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.RW:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Speaking and Listening
Performance Standard: ELA.K.RW.B:Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.35
Description: Speak audibly and express thoughts, feelings, and ideas clearly.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.L:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Language
Performance Standard: ELA.K.L.A:Conventions of Standard English
Standard: ELA.K.36
Description: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking. •Print many upper- and lowercase letters. •Use frequently occurring nouns and verbs. •Form regular plural nouns orally by adding /s/ or /es/ (e.g., dog, dogs; wish, wishes). •Understand and use question words (interrogatives) (e.g., who, what, where, when, why, how). •Use the most frequently occurring prepositions (e.g., to, from, in, out, on, off, for, of, by, with). •Produce and expand complete sentences in shared language activities.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.L:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Language
Performance Standard: ELA.K.L.A:Conventions of Standard English
Standard: ELA.K.37
Description: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing. •Capitalize the first word in a sentence and the pronoun I. •Recognize and name end punctuation. •Write a letter or letters for most consonant and short-vowel sounds (phonemes). •Spell simple words phonetically, drawing on knowledge of sound-letter relationships.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.L:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Language
Performance Standard: ELA.K.L.C:Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
Standard: ELA.K.39
Description: Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on kindergarten reading and content. •Identify new meanings for familiar words and apply them accurately (e.g., knowing duck is a bird and learning the verb to duck). •Introduce the most frequently occurring inflections and affixes (e.g., -ed, -s, re-, un-, pre-, -ful, -less) as a clue to the meaning of an unknown word.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.L:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Language
Performance Standard: ELA.K.L.C:Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
Standard: ELA.K.40
Description: With guidance and support from adults, explore word relationships and nuances in word meanings. •Sort common objects into categories (e.g., shapes, foods) to gain a sense of the concepts the categories represent. •Demonstrate understanding of frequently occurring verbs and adjectives by relating them to their opposites (antonyms). •Identify real-life connections between words and their use (e.g., note places at school that are colorful). •Distinguish shades of meaning among verbs describing the same general action (e.g., walk, march, strut, prance) by acting out the meanings.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.L:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Language
Performance Standard: ELA.K.L.C:Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
Standard: ELA.K.41
Description: Use words and phrases acquired through conversations, reading and being read to, and responding to texts.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: Science
Strand: S.K:West Virginia Science - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: S.K.GS:General Science
Standard: S.K.GS.3
Description: use observations to describe patterns of what plants and animals (including humans) need to survive
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Science
Strand: S.K:West Virginia Science - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: S.K.GS:General Science
Standard: S.K.GS.4
Description: construct an argument supported by evidence for how plans and animals (including humans) can change the environment to meet their needs
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Science
Strand: S.K:West Virginia Science - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: S.K.GS:General Science
Standard: S.K.GS.5
Description: use a model to represent the relationship between the needs of different plants or animals (including humans) and the places they live
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Social Studies
Strand: SS.K:West Virginia Social Studies - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: C.SS.K:Civics
Standard: SS.K.1
Description: Develop an understanding of citizenship and patriotism through a variety of experiences (e.g., appropriate behavior, sharing, taking turns, volunteering, being honest and demonstrating responsibility for materials and personal belongings).
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Social Studies
Strand: SS.K:West Virginia Social Studies - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: C.SS.K:Civics
Standard: SS.K.2
Description: Participate in role play to resolve disputes, and demonstrate tolerance and acceptance of others and their ideas.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Social Studies
Strand: SS.K:West Virginia Social Studies - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: C.SS.K:Civics
Standard: SS.K.3
Description: Investigate the need for rules in their environment, create a set of classroom rules, and explore the consequences for not following the rules.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Social Studies
Strand: SS.K:West Virginia Social Studies - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: C.SS.K:Civics
Standard: SS.K.4
Description: Investigate the leadership roles within their families, classrooms and schools and demonstrate their understanding through activities such as role play and classroom jobs.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
Student Objectives
Lesson 91
Describe a river
List nearby rivers
Explain why rivers are important
Identify words with initial dr, fr, pr, and tr
Read the high-frequency word where
Review punctuation
Write tr
State that we learn phonics in order to learn about God's world
Lesson 92
Sequence the steps of the water cycle
Demonstrate the water cycle
Dictate sentences for a shared writing activity
Explain that we write in order to show love to others
Identify words with initial fl, gl, and pl
Write fl
Lesson 93
Describe a lake
List nearby lakes
List things to do at a lake
Compare and contrast a lake and a river
Read words with the phonograms _act, _eft, _ept, and _ext
Write xt
Lesson 94
Identify features of water creatures
Explain why these features are important
Complete a creative-writing activity
Identify words with initial three-letter blends: squ, scr, spl, spr, and str
Write squ
Lesson 95
Relate story information to real life
Predict outcomes
Gain factual information from photographs
Gain factual information from text
Read simple sentences
Lessons
Lesson 91: Rivers
Lesson 92: The Water Cycle
Lesson 93: Land of Lakes
Lesson 94: Water Critters
Lesson 95: Trucks
Learning Center - Ride in a Canoe
Snack of the Week - Fishbowls
Show and Tell - Encourage each student to bring a toy truck to share
Science
Rivers
Duck Float
Water Cycle
Lakes
Make a Lake
Water Creatures
Time to Eat
Language Arts
Phonics and English Skills
Read Word Families
High-Frequency Words
Handwriting
Sing the Songs
Phonics
Phonics Practice: The Trip
Phonics Fun: Decorative Ducks
Phonics Fun: Rain Shower
Phonics Practice: The Baby
Phonics Fun: Catching Fish
Phonics Fun: Clap
Activity
Little Blue Truck
Sing a Song
Row, Row, Row Your Boat
Out on the Lake
Five Little Speckled Frogs
Arts and Crafts
River
Water Cycle
At the Lake
River and Lake Pictures
Write Now!
Write Now! pages 94-98
Motor Skills
Go Fishing
Critter Movements
Biblical Integration Concepts
God is great, and God is good
God created me and all things
The Bible is God's Word, and it is true
I learn in order to serve God and others
Biblical Integration Strategies
Tell about Jesus' baptism in the Jordan River
Tell the story of the second and third days of Creation and how God created the water to be in the oceans and sky (Genesis 1:6-11); point out that the way creation works together (the water cycle) was designed by God
Biblical account from John 21:3-13
Begin lessons with consonant and short vowel sounds
Teach strategies that include both phonics-related practice in word families and context analysis of high-frequency words
Give students time to read silently first
Encourage parent participation in the learning process
Have students practice reading in a natural manner
Use Words at Work pages as a format for consistent phonics review and drill
Use labeled pictures
Use reading markers
Have small groups work together in a classroom setting
Unit 4: Mountains High to Oceans Deep / Week 20: Oceans
(updated 12/20/23)
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.ELF:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Early Learning Foundations
Performance Standard: ELA.K.ELF.A:Fluency
Standard: ELA.K.I
Description: Read emergent-reader texts with purpose and understanding.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.ELF:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Early Learning Foundations
Performance Standard: ELA.K.ELF.B:Phonics and Word Recognition
Standard: ELA.K.II
Description: Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words. •Demonstrate basic knowledge of one-to-one letter-sound correspondences by producing the primary or many of the most frequent sound for each consonant. •Associate the long and short sounds with common spellings (graphemes) for the five major vowels. •Read common high-frequency words by sight (e.g., the, of, to, you, she, my, is, are, do, does). •Distinguish between similarly spelled words by identifying the sounds of the letters that differ.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.ELF:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Early Learning Foundations
Performance Standard: ELA.K.ELF.C:Handwriting
Standard: ELA.K.III
Description: Print upper- and lowercase letters
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.ELF:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Early Learning Foundations
Description: Demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds (phonemes). •Recognize and produce rhyming words. •Count, pronounce, blend, and segment syllables in spoken words. •Blend and segment onsets and rimes of single-syllable spoken words. •Isolate and pronounce the initial, medial vowel, and final sounds (phonemes) in three-phoneme (consonant-vowel-consonant, or CVC) words. (This does not include CVCs ending with /l/, /r/, or /x/.) •Add or substitute individual sounds (phonemes) in simple, one-syllable words to make new words.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.ELF:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Early Learning Foundations
Performance Standard: ELA.K.ELF.E:Print concepts
Standard: ELA.K.V
Description: Demonstrate understanding of the organization and basic features of print. •Follow words from left to right, top to bottom, and page by page. •Recognize that spoken words are represented in written language by specific sequences of letters. •Understand that words are separated by spaces in print. •Recognize and name all upper- and lowercase letters of the alphabet.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.A:Key Ideas and Details
Standard: ELA.K.1
Description: With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.A:Key Ideas and Details
Standard: ELA.K.2
Description: With prompting and support, retell familiar stories, including key details.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.A:Key Ideas and Details
Standard: ELA.K.3
Description: With prompting and support, identify characters, settings, and major events in a story.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.A:Key Ideas and Details
Standard: ELA.K.4
Description: With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.A:Key Ideas and Details
Standard: ELA.K.5
Description: With prompting and support, identify the main topic and retell key details of a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.A:Key Ideas and Details
Standard: ELA.K.6
Description: With prompting and support, describe the connection between two individuals, events, ideas, or pieces of information in a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.B:Craft and Structure
Standard: ELA.K.7
Description: With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about unknown words in a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.B:Craft and Structure
Standard: ELA.K.8
Description: With prompting and support, recognize common types of texts (e.g., storybooks, poems).
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.B:Craft and Structure
Standard: ELA.K.9
Description: With prompting and support, name the author and illustrator of a story and define the role of each in telling the story.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.B:Craft and Structure
Standard: ELA.K.10
Description: With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about unknown words in a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.B:Craft and Structure
Standard: ELA.K.11
Description: With prompting and support, identify the front cover, back cover, and title page of a book.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.B:Craft and Structure
Standard: ELA.K.12
Description: With prompting and support, name the author and illustrator of a text and define the role of each in presenting the ideas or information in a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.C:Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.13
Description: With prompting and support, describe the relationship between illustrations and the story in which they appear (e.g., what moment in a story an illustration depicts).
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.C:Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.14
Description: With prompting and support, compare and contrast the adventures and experiences of characters in familiar stories.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.C:Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.15
Description: With prompting and support, describe the relationship between illustrations and the text in which they appear (e.g., what person, place, thing, or idea in the text an illustration depicts).
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.C:Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.16
Description: With prompting and support, identify the reasons an author gives to support points in a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.C:Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.17
Description: With prompting and support, identify basic similarities in and differences between two texts on the same topic (e.g., in illustrations, descriptions, or procedures).
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.D:Range of Reading and Text Complexity
Standard: ELA.K.18
Description: Actively engage in group reading activities with purpose and understanding.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.W:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Writing
Performance Standard: ELA.K.W.A:Text Types and Purposes
Standard: ELA.K.20
Description: Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to compose opinion pieces in which they tell a reader the topic or the name of the book they are writing about and state an opinion or preference about the topic or book (e.g., My favorite book is . . .).
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.W:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Writing
Performance Standard: ELA.K.W.A:Text Types and Purposes
Standard: ELA.K.21
Description: Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to compose informative/explanatory texts in which they name what they are writing about and supply some information about the topic.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.RW:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Speaking and Listening
Performance Standard: ELA.K.RW.A:Comprehension and Collaboration
Standard: ELA.K.30
Description: Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about kindergarten topics and texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups. •Follow agreed-upon rules for discussions (e.g., listening to others and taking turns speaking about the topics and texts under discussion). •Continue a conversation through multiple exchanges.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.RW:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Speaking and Listening
Performance Standard: ELA.K.RW.A:Comprehension and Collaboration
Standard: ELA.K.31
Description: Confirm understanding of a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media by asking and answering questions about key details and requesting clarification if something is not understood.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.RW:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Speaking and Listening
Performance Standard: ELA.K.RW.A:Comprehension and Collaboration
Standard: ELA.K.32
Description: Ask and answer questions in order to seek help, get information, or clarify something that is not understood.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.RW:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Speaking and Listening
Performance Standard: ELA.K.RW.B:Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.34
Description: Add drawings or other visual displays to descriptions as desired to provide additional detail.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.RW:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Speaking and Listening
Performance Standard: ELA.K.RW.B:Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.35
Description: Speak audibly and express thoughts, feelings, and ideas clearly.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.L:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Language
Performance Standard: ELA.K.L.A:Conventions of Standard English
Standard: ELA.K.36
Description: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking. •Print many upper- and lowercase letters. •Use frequently occurring nouns and verbs. •Form regular plural nouns orally by adding /s/ or /es/ (e.g., dog, dogs; wish, wishes). •Understand and use question words (interrogatives) (e.g., who, what, where, when, why, how). •Use the most frequently occurring prepositions (e.g., to, from, in, out, on, off, for, of, by, with). •Produce and expand complete sentences in shared language activities.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.L:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Language
Performance Standard: ELA.K.L.A:Conventions of Standard English
Standard: ELA.K.37
Description: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing. •Capitalize the first word in a sentence and the pronoun I. •Recognize and name end punctuation. •Write a letter or letters for most consonant and short-vowel sounds (phonemes). •Spell simple words phonetically, drawing on knowledge of sound-letter relationships.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.L:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Language
Performance Standard: ELA.K.L.C:Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
Standard: ELA.K.39
Description: Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on kindergarten reading and content. •Identify new meanings for familiar words and apply them accurately (e.g., knowing duck is a bird and learning the verb to duck). •Introduce the most frequently occurring inflections and affixes (e.g., -ed, -s, re-, un-, pre-, -ful, -less) as a clue to the meaning of an unknown word.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.L:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Language
Performance Standard: ELA.K.L.C:Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
Standard: ELA.K.40
Description: With guidance and support from adults, explore word relationships and nuances in word meanings. •Sort common objects into categories (e.g., shapes, foods) to gain a sense of the concepts the categories represent. •Demonstrate understanding of frequently occurring verbs and adjectives by relating them to their opposites (antonyms). •Identify real-life connections between words and their use (e.g., note places at school that are colorful). •Distinguish shades of meaning among verbs describing the same general action (e.g., walk, march, strut, prance) by acting out the meanings.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.L:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Language
Performance Standard: ELA.K.L.C:Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
Standard: ELA.K.41
Description: Use words and phrases acquired through conversations, reading and being read to, and responding to texts.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: Science
Strand: S.K:West Virginia Science - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: S.K.GS:General Science
Standard: S.K.GS.4
Description: construct an argument supported by evidence for how plans and animals (including humans) can change the environment to meet their needs
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Science
Strand: S.K:West Virginia Science - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: S.K.GS:General Science
Standard: S.K.GS.6
Description: communicate solutions that will reduce the impact of humans on the land, water, air, and/or other living things in the local environment
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Science
Strand: S.K:West Virginia Science - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: S.K.GS:General Science
Standard: S.K.GS.7
Description: use and share observations of local weather conditions to describe patterns over time
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Science
Strand: S.K:West Virginia Science - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: S.K.GS:General Science
Standard: S.K.GS.8
Description: ask questions to obtain information about the purpose of weather forecasting to prepare for, and respond to, severe weather
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Science
Strand: S.K:West Virginia Science - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: S.K.GS:General Science
Standard: S.K.GS.9
Description: make observation to determine the effect of sunlight on Earth's surface
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Social Studies
Strand: SS.K:West Virginia Social Studies - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: C.SS.K:Civics
Standard: SS.K.1
Description: Develop an understanding of citizenship and patriotism through a variety of experiences (e.g., appropriate behavior, sharing, taking turns, volunteering, being honest and demonstrating responsibility for materials and personal belongings).
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Social Studies
Strand: SS.K:West Virginia Social Studies - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: C.SS.K:Civics
Standard: SS.K.2
Description: Participate in role play to resolve disputes, and demonstrate tolerance and acceptance of others and their ideas.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Social Studies
Strand: SS.K:West Virginia Social Studies - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: C.SS.K:Civics
Standard: SS.K.3
Description: Investigate the need for rules in their environment, create a set of classroom rules, and explore the consequences for not following the rules.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Social Studies
Strand: SS.K:West Virginia Social Studies - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: E.SS.K:Economics
Standard: SS.K.6
Description: Discover the basic needs of people (e.g., shelter, food, clothing, etc.) and give examples of each.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Social Studies
Strand: SS.K:West Virginia Social Studies - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: G.SS.K:Geography
Standard: SS.K.11
Description: Compare and contrast the ways humans adapt based on seasons and weather.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Social Studies
Strand: SS.K:West Virginia Social Studies - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: G.SS.K:Geography
Standard: SS.K.13
Description: Investigate the need for symbols in daily life (e.g., exit, stop sign, bathroom signs, school zone, stop light, etc.).
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Social Studies
Strand: SS.K:West Virginia Social Studies - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: H.SS.K:History
Standard: SS.K.14
Description: Illustrate personal history (e.g., first and last name, birthday, age, guardian's name, and other personal data).
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Social Studies
Strand: SS.K:West Virginia Social Studies - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: H.SS.K:History
Standard: SS.K.16
Description: Investigate the past and explore the differences in other people, times and cultures through stories of people, heroes, pictures, songs, holidays, customs, traditions or legends.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Social Studies
Strand: SS.K:West Virginia Social Studies - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: H.SS.K:History
Standard: SS.K.17
Description: Explore time, places, people and events in relationship to student's own life (e.g., family trees, pictures, stories, etc.).
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Social Studies
Strand: SS.K:West Virginia Social Studies - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: WV.SS.K:WV History
Standard: SS.K.20
Description: Track the weather to illustrate West Virginia's climate.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Social Studies
Strand: SS.K:West Virginia Social Studies - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: WV.SS.K:WV History
Standard: SS.K.21
Description: Recognize local community names.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
Student Objectives
Lesson 96
Locate oceans on a map or a globe
Identify features of an ocean
Describe an octopus
Explain how an octopus survives
Use letter-sound association for sh
Read words with initial sh
Read the high-frequency word give
Write sh
Lesson 97
Identify features of seashells
Classify objects by observable properties
Participate in a shared writing activity
Use letter-sound association for sh
Read words with the phonograms _ish, _ash, and _osh
Write a sentence
Lesson 98
Demonstrate sea sounds
Identify some features of seabirds
List examples of seabirds
Use letter-sound association for ch
Read words with initial ch
Write ch
Lesson 99
Identify features of whales
Compose a sentence
Use letter-sound association for ch and tch
Read words with the phonograms _ich, _uch, _atch, and _otch
Practice marking the breve
Write a sentence
Lesson 100
Distinguish fanciful characters from realistic characters
Determine story setting from pictures
Read orally to interpret story characters
Interpret action in pictures
Lessons
Lesson 96: Ocean Hide-and-Seek
Lesson 97: Seashells
Lesson 98: Sea Sounds
Lesson 99: Whales
Lesson 100: Big Clam
Learning Center - Fishy Words
Snack of the Week - Edible Aquarium
Show and Tell - Encourage the students to bring something from the ocean
Science
Under the Sea
Show a video of an octopus changing colors or spraying black ink to protect itself from predators
On the Shore
Sounds at the Sea (Loud and Soft Sounds)
Wave in a Bottle
Giants of the Sea
Salt Water
Language Arts
Sing the Sounds
Word Families
High-Frequency Words
Handwriting
Spelling
Guided Reading
Grammar
Compound Words
Phonics Story
Phonics Practice: Kim's Shell
Phonics Fun: Hide the Octopus
Phonics Fun: Under the Waves
Phonics Practice: Chad's Dish
Phonics Fun: Iceberg Dodge
Activities
Sentence Review
Tongue Twister
Write Now!
Write Now! pp. 99-103
Sing a Song
At the Seashore
Our Shells
At the Beach
Whales
Arts and Crafts
Octopus
Paper-Plate Beach Ball
Ocean
Sand Sculptures
Motor Skills
Crab Walk
Fish and Shells
Jump the Wave
Blue Whale
Biblical Integration Concepts
God is great, and God is good
God created me and all things
The Bible is God's Word, and it is true
I learn in order to serve God and others
Biblical Integration Strategies
Tell the story of Jonah (Jonah 1:1-2:10); the Bible says a big fish swallowed Jonah; it must have been a large fish like a whale
Employ picture reading to predict text
Encourage higher-lever thinking skills
Use colorful pictures to reinforce each letter and sound
Present letter formation with the name and sound to reinforce visual memory
Games and motor activities involve the students as they practice and review sounds and words
Use comprehension questions to develop higher-order thinking skills
Unit 4: Mountains High to Oceans Deep / Week 21: Taking the Gospel
(updated 12/21/23)
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Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.ELF:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Early Learning Foundations
Performance Standard: ELA.K.ELF.A:Fluency
Standard: ELA.K.I
Description: Read emergent-reader texts with purpose and understanding.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.ELF:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Early Learning Foundations
Performance Standard: ELA.K.ELF.B:Phonics and Word Recognition
Standard: ELA.K.II
Description: Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words. •Demonstrate basic knowledge of one-to-one letter-sound correspondences by producing the primary or many of the most frequent sound for each consonant. •Associate the long and short sounds with common spellings (graphemes) for the five major vowels. •Read common high-frequency words by sight (e.g., the, of, to, you, she, my, is, are, do, does). •Distinguish between similarly spelled words by identifying the sounds of the letters that differ.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.ELF:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Early Learning Foundations
Description: Demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds (phonemes). •Recognize and produce rhyming words. •Count, pronounce, blend, and segment syllables in spoken words. •Blend and segment onsets and rimes of single-syllable spoken words. •Isolate and pronounce the initial, medial vowel, and final sounds (phonemes) in three-phoneme (consonant-vowel-consonant, or CVC) words. (This does not include CVCs ending with /l/, /r/, or /x/.) •Add or substitute individual sounds (phonemes) in simple, one-syllable words to make new words.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.ELF:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Early Learning Foundations
Performance Standard: ELA.K.ELF.E:Print concepts
Standard: ELA.K.V
Description: Demonstrate understanding of the organization and basic features of print. •Follow words from left to right, top to bottom, and page by page. •Recognize that spoken words are represented in written language by specific sequences of letters. •Understand that words are separated by spaces in print. •Recognize and name all upper- and lowercase letters of the alphabet.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.A:Key Ideas and Details
Standard: ELA.K.1
Description: With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.A:Key Ideas and Details
Standard: ELA.K.2
Description: With prompting and support, retell familiar stories, including key details.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.A:Key Ideas and Details
Standard: ELA.K.3
Description: With prompting and support, identify characters, settings, and major events in a story.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.A:Key Ideas and Details
Standard: ELA.K.4
Description: With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.A:Key Ideas and Details
Standard: ELA.K.5
Description: With prompting and support, identify the main topic and retell key details of a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.A:Key Ideas and Details
Standard: ELA.K.6
Description: With prompting and support, describe the connection between two individuals, events, ideas, or pieces of information in a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.B:Craft and Structure
Standard: ELA.K.7
Description: With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about unknown words in a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.B:Craft and Structure
Standard: ELA.K.8
Description: With prompting and support, recognize common types of texts (e.g., storybooks, poems).
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.B:Craft and Structure
Standard: ELA.K.9
Description: With prompting and support, name the author and illustrator of a story and define the role of each in telling the story.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.B:Craft and Structure
Standard: ELA.K.10
Description: With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about unknown words in a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.B:Craft and Structure
Standard: ELA.K.11
Description: With prompting and support, identify the front cover, back cover, and title page of a book.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.B:Craft and Structure
Standard: ELA.K.12
Description: With prompting and support, name the author and illustrator of a text and define the role of each in presenting the ideas or information in a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.C:Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.13
Description: With prompting and support, describe the relationship between illustrations and the story in which they appear (e.g., what moment in a story an illustration depicts).
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.C:Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.14
Description: With prompting and support, compare and contrast the adventures and experiences of characters in familiar stories.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.C:Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.15
Description: With prompting and support, describe the relationship between illustrations and the text in which they appear (e.g., what person, place, thing, or idea in the text an illustration depicts).
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.C:Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.16
Description: With prompting and support, identify the reasons an author gives to support points in a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.C:Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.17
Description: With prompting and support, identify basic similarities in and differences between two texts on the same topic (e.g., in illustrations, descriptions, or procedures).
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.D:Range of Reading and Text Complexity
Standard: ELA.K.18
Description: Actively engage in group reading activities with purpose and understanding.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.D:Range of Reading and Text Complexity
Standard: ELA.K.19
Description: Actively engage in group reading activities with purpose and understanding.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.RW:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Speaking and Listening
Performance Standard: ELA.K.RW.A:Comprehension and Collaboration
Standard: ELA.K.30
Description: Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about kindergarten topics and texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups. •Follow agreed-upon rules for discussions (e.g., listening to others and taking turns speaking about the topics and texts under discussion). •Continue a conversation through multiple exchanges.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.RW:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Speaking and Listening
Performance Standard: ELA.K.RW.A:Comprehension and Collaboration
Standard: ELA.K.31
Description: Confirm understanding of a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media by asking and answering questions about key details and requesting clarification if something is not understood.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.RW:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Speaking and Listening
Performance Standard: ELA.K.RW.A:Comprehension and Collaboration
Standard: ELA.K.32
Description: Ask and answer questions in order to seek help, get information, or clarify something that is not understood.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.RW:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Speaking and Listening
Performance Standard: ELA.K.RW.B:Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.33
Description: Describe familiar people, places, things, and events and, with prompting and support, provide additional detail.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.RW:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Speaking and Listening
Performance Standard: ELA.K.RW.B:Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.34
Description: Add drawings or other visual displays to descriptions as desired to provide additional detail.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.RW:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Speaking and Listening
Performance Standard: ELA.K.RW.B:Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.35
Description: Speak audibly and express thoughts, feelings, and ideas clearly.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.L:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Language
Performance Standard: ELA.K.L.A:Conventions of Standard English
Standard: ELA.K.36
Description: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking. •Print many upper- and lowercase letters. •Use frequently occurring nouns and verbs. •Form regular plural nouns orally by adding /s/ or /es/ (e.g., dog, dogs; wish, wishes). •Understand and use question words (interrogatives) (e.g., who, what, where, when, why, how). •Use the most frequently occurring prepositions (e.g., to, from, in, out, on, off, for, of, by, with). •Produce and expand complete sentences in shared language activities.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.L:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Language
Performance Standard: ELA.K.L.A:Conventions of Standard English
Standard: ELA.K.37
Description: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing. •Capitalize the first word in a sentence and the pronoun I. •Recognize and name end punctuation. •Write a letter or letters for most consonant and short-vowel sounds (phonemes). •Spell simple words phonetically, drawing on knowledge of sound-letter relationships.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.L:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Language
Performance Standard: ELA.K.L.C:Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
Standard: ELA.K.39
Description: Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on kindergarten reading and content. •Identify new meanings for familiar words and apply them accurately (e.g., knowing duck is a bird and learning the verb to duck). •Introduce the most frequently occurring inflections and affixes (e.g., -ed, -s, re-, un-, pre-, -ful, -less) as a clue to the meaning of an unknown word.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.L:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Language
Performance Standard: ELA.K.L.C:Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
Standard: ELA.K.40
Description: With guidance and support from adults, explore word relationships and nuances in word meanings. •Sort common objects into categories (e.g., shapes, foods) to gain a sense of the concepts the categories represent. •Demonstrate understanding of frequently occurring verbs and adjectives by relating them to their opposites (antonyms). •Identify real-life connections between words and their use (e.g., note places at school that are colorful). •Distinguish shades of meaning among verbs describing the same general action (e.g., walk, march, strut, prance) by acting out the meanings.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.L:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Language
Performance Standard: ELA.K.L.C:Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
Standard: ELA.K.41
Description: Use words and phrases acquired through conversations, reading and being read to, and responding to texts.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
Student Objectives
Lesson 101
List ways that God keeps His promises
Name a promise that God will keep for you
Use letter-sound association for th
Read words with initial th
Read the high-frequency words Bible and people
Write th
Lesson 102
Differentiate high and low pitches
Distinguish loud from soft volume
Explain one reason God gave us the sense of hearing
Complete a shared writing activity
Use letter-sound association for th
Read words with the phonograms _ath, _eth, and _ith
Write a sentence
Lesson 103
Explain how God answers prayer
Recognize that God still answers prayer today
Use letter-sound association for why
Read words with initial wh
Choose the correct punctuation for an interrogative sentence
Write wh
Lesson 104
Participate in a Spanish celebration
Recite John 3:16 in Spanish
Explain the meaning of John 3:16
Classify objects by size
Complete a creative-writing activity
Blend a consonant with a consonant digraph
Read words with initial shr and thr
Read words with the phonogram _inch
Write a sentence
Lesson 105
Draw conclusions from factual information
Relate biblical truth to life
Explain that we learn to read in order to learn more about God
Lessons
Lesson 101: A Spanish Farm
Lesson 102: A Spanish Song
Lesson 103: Count the Stars
Lesson 104: A Spanish Celebration
Lesson 105: The Bibles
Learning Center - Taco Sort
Snack of the Week - Pretty Cocoa
Show and Tell - Encourage the students to bring something from another country
Heritage Studies
God Keeps His Promises
Answered Prayer
A Fun Fiesta
Science
Songs and Sounds
Sing a Song
Count the Stars
Language Arts
Sing the Sounds
Read Word Families
Introducing Blends
Punctuation
Exclamation Point
Question Mark
High Frequency Words
Handwriting
Vocabulary
Guide a Discussion
Phonics
Phonics Practice: A Fun Fish
Phonics Fun: What Color?
Phonics Fun: Reading Melody
Phonics Practice: Splash!
Phonics Fun: Packing Words
Grammar
Proper Names
Activities
Spanish Colors
Count the Stars
I Spy
Arts and Crafts
Glitter Stars
Arts and Crafts
Pinata
Snowman
Picasso Masterpieces
Write Now!
Write Now!
Motor Skills
Spanish Rollups
Spanish Game: Fisty Fist
Spanish Game: Handkerchief
Sorting Buttons
Tic-Tac-Toe
Biblical Integration Concepts
God is great, and God is good
God created me and all things
The Bible is God's Word, and it is true
I learn in order to serve God and others
Biblical Integration Strategies
Read Genesis 15:5-6, which was mentioned in the Listening Story; explain to the students how God used the stars to show Abram that his descendants would be many
Tell the Parable of the Sower from Matthew 13:1-9, 18-23; explain that the different soils represent how people hear or listen to the gospel (seed)
Focus on the process as much as the product when teaching handwriting
practice letter formation rhythmically
Include dictation of a class story and independent writing for students who are ready to venture into attempted spelling
Help develop a love of writing through writing new endings to familiar stories, making lists, and adding labels to pictures
Use songs for phonics practice and to reinforce the theme
Unit 4: Mountains High to Oceans Deep / Week 22: America the Beautiful
(updated 12/21/23)
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.ELF:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Early Learning Foundations
Performance Standard: ELA.K.ELF.A:Fluency
Standard: ELA.K.I
Description: Read emergent-reader texts with purpose and understanding.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.ELF:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Early Learning Foundations
Performance Standard: ELA.K.ELF.B:Phonics and Word Recognition
Standard: ELA.K.II
Description: Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words. •Demonstrate basic knowledge of one-to-one letter-sound correspondences by producing the primary or many of the most frequent sound for each consonant. •Associate the long and short sounds with common spellings (graphemes) for the five major vowels. •Read common high-frequency words by sight (e.g., the, of, to, you, she, my, is, are, do, does). •Distinguish between similarly spelled words by identifying the sounds of the letters that differ.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.ELF:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Early Learning Foundations
Performance Standard: ELA.K.ELF.C:Handwriting
Standard: ELA.K.III
Description: Print upper- and lowercase letters
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.ELF:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Early Learning Foundations
Description: Demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds (phonemes). •Recognize and produce rhyming words. •Count, pronounce, blend, and segment syllables in spoken words. •Blend and segment onsets and rimes of single-syllable spoken words. •Isolate and pronounce the initial, medial vowel, and final sounds (phonemes) in three-phoneme (consonant-vowel-consonant, or CVC) words. (This does not include CVCs ending with /l/, /r/, or /x/.) •Add or substitute individual sounds (phonemes) in simple, one-syllable words to make new words.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.ELF:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Early Learning Foundations
Performance Standard: ELA.K.ELF.E:Print concepts
Standard: ELA.K.V
Description: Demonstrate understanding of the organization and basic features of print. •Follow words from left to right, top to bottom, and page by page. •Recognize that spoken words are represented in written language by specific sequences of letters. •Understand that words are separated by spaces in print. •Recognize and name all upper- and lowercase letters of the alphabet.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.A:Key Ideas and Details
Standard: ELA.K.1
Description: With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.A:Key Ideas and Details
Standard: ELA.K.2
Description: With prompting and support, retell familiar stories, including key details.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.A:Key Ideas and Details
Standard: ELA.K.3
Description: With prompting and support, identify characters, settings, and major events in a story.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.A:Key Ideas and Details
Standard: ELA.K.4
Description: With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.A:Key Ideas and Details
Standard: ELA.K.5
Description: With prompting and support, identify the main topic and retell key details of a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.A:Key Ideas and Details
Standard: ELA.K.6
Description: With prompting and support, describe the connection between two individuals, events, ideas, or pieces of information in a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.B:Craft and Structure
Standard: ELA.K.7
Description: With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about unknown words in a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.B:Craft and Structure
Standard: ELA.K.8
Description: With prompting and support, recognize common types of texts (e.g., storybooks, poems).
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.B:Craft and Structure
Standard: ELA.K.9
Description: With prompting and support, name the author and illustrator of a story and define the role of each in telling the story.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.B:Craft and Structure
Standard: ELA.K.10
Description: With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about unknown words in a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.B:Craft and Structure
Standard: ELA.K.11
Description: With prompting and support, identify the front cover, back cover, and title page of a book.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.C:Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.13
Description: With prompting and support, describe the relationship between illustrations and the story in which they appear (e.g., what moment in a story an illustration depicts).
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.C:Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.14
Description: With prompting and support, compare and contrast the adventures and experiences of characters in familiar stories.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.C:Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.15
Description: With prompting and support, describe the relationship between illustrations and the text in which they appear (e.g., what person, place, thing, or idea in the text an illustration depicts).
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.C:Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.16
Description: With prompting and support, identify the reasons an author gives to support points in a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.C:Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.17
Description: With prompting and support, identify basic similarities in and differences between two texts on the same topic (e.g., in illustrations, descriptions, or procedures).
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.D:Range of Reading and Text Complexity
Standard: ELA.K.18
Description: Actively engage in group reading activities with purpose and understanding.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.D:Range of Reading and Text Complexity
Standard: ELA.K.19
Description: Actively engage in group reading activities with purpose and understanding.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.RW:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Speaking and Listening
Performance Standard: ELA.K.RW.A:Comprehension and Collaboration
Standard: ELA.K.30
Description: Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about kindergarten topics and texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups. •Follow agreed-upon rules for discussions (e.g., listening to others and taking turns speaking about the topics and texts under discussion). •Continue a conversation through multiple exchanges.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.RW:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Speaking and Listening
Performance Standard: ELA.K.RW.A:Comprehension and Collaboration
Standard: ELA.K.31
Description: Confirm understanding of a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media by asking and answering questions about key details and requesting clarification if something is not understood.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.RW:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Speaking and Listening
Performance Standard: ELA.K.RW.A:Comprehension and Collaboration
Standard: ELA.K.32
Description: Ask and answer questions in order to seek help, get information, or clarify something that is not understood.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.RW:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Speaking and Listening
Performance Standard: ELA.K.RW.B:Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.33
Description: Describe familiar people, places, things, and events and, with prompting and support, provide additional detail.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.RW:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Speaking and Listening
Performance Standard: ELA.K.RW.B:Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.34
Description: Add drawings or other visual displays to descriptions as desired to provide additional detail.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.RW:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Speaking and Listening
Performance Standard: ELA.K.RW.B:Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.35
Description: Speak audibly and express thoughts, feelings, and ideas clearly.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.L:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Language
Performance Standard: ELA.K.L.A:Conventions of Standard English
Standard: ELA.K.36
Description: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking. •Print many upper- and lowercase letters. •Use frequently occurring nouns and verbs. •Form regular plural nouns orally by adding /s/ or /es/ (e.g., dog, dogs; wish, wishes). •Understand and use question words (interrogatives) (e.g., who, what, where, when, why, how). •Use the most frequently occurring prepositions (e.g., to, from, in, out, on, off, for, of, by, with). •Produce and expand complete sentences in shared language activities.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.L:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Language
Performance Standard: ELA.K.L.A:Conventions of Standard English
Standard: ELA.K.37
Description: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing. •Capitalize the first word in a sentence and the pronoun I. •Recognize and name end punctuation. •Write a letter or letters for most consonant and short-vowel sounds (phonemes). •Spell simple words phonetically, drawing on knowledge of sound-letter relationships.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.L:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Language
Performance Standard: ELA.K.L.C:Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
Standard: ELA.K.39
Description: Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on kindergarten reading and content. •Identify new meanings for familiar words and apply them accurately (e.g., knowing duck is a bird and learning the verb to duck). •Introduce the most frequently occurring inflections and affixes (e.g., -ed, -s, re-, un-, pre-, -ful, -less) as a clue to the meaning of an unknown word.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.L:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Language
Performance Standard: ELA.K.L.C:Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
Standard: ELA.K.40
Description: With guidance and support from adults, explore word relationships and nuances in word meanings. •Sort common objects into categories (e.g., shapes, foods) to gain a sense of the concepts the categories represent. •Demonstrate understanding of frequently occurring verbs and adjectives by relating them to their opposites (antonyms). •Identify real-life connections between words and their use (e.g., note places at school that are colorful). •Distinguish shades of meaning among verbs describing the same general action (e.g., walk, march, strut, prance) by acting out the meanings.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.L:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Language
Performance Standard: ELA.K.L.C:Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
Standard: ELA.K.41
Description: Use words and phrases acquired through conversations, reading and being read to, and responding to texts.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: Science
Strand: S.K:West Virginia Science - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: S.K.GS:General Science
Standard: S.K.GS.3
Description: use observations to describe patterns of what plants and animals (including humans) need to survive
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Science
Strand: S.K:West Virginia Science - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: S.K.GS:General Science
Standard: S.K.GS.6
Description: communicate solutions that will reduce the impact of humans on the land, water, air, and/or other living things in the local environment
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Social Studies
Strand: SS.K:West Virginia Social Studies - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: C.SS.K:Civics
Standard: SS.K.1
Description: Develop an understanding of citizenship and patriotism through a variety of experiences (e.g., appropriate behavior, sharing, taking turns, volunteering, being honest and demonstrating responsibility for materials and personal belongings).
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Social Studies
Strand: SS.K:West Virginia Social Studies - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: C.SS.K:Civics
Standard: SS.K.2
Description: Participate in role play to resolve disputes, and demonstrate tolerance and acceptance of others and their ideas.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Social Studies
Strand: SS.K:West Virginia Social Studies - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: C.SS.K:Civics
Standard: SS.K.3
Description: Investigate the need for rules in their environment, create a set of classroom rules, and explore the consequences for not following the rules.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Social Studies
Strand: SS.K:West Virginia Social Studies - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: C.SS.K:Civics
Standard: SS.K.4
Description: Investigate the leadership roles within their families, classrooms and schools and demonstrate their understanding through activities such as role play and classroom jobs.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Social Studies
Strand: SS.K:West Virginia Social Studies - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: E.SS.K:Economics
Standard: SS.K.6
Description: Discover the basic needs of people (e.g., shelter, food, clothing, etc.) and give examples of each.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Social Studies
Strand: SS.K:West Virginia Social Studies - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: E.SS.K:Economics
Standard: SS.K.8
Description: Distinguish between wants and needs.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
Student Objectives
Lesson 106
Identify features of Hawaii
Locate Hawaii on a globe
Sequence events in a story
Use letter-sound association for ng
Read words with the phonogram _ing
Write ng
Lesson 107
Describe canyons
State that the Grand Canyon is the largest canyon in the United States
Write a sentence to describe the Grand Canyon
Use letter-sound association for ng
Read words with the suffix -ing
Write a sentence
Lesson 108
Describe caverns
Distinguish stalactites from stalagmites
Use letter-sound association for nk
Read words with the phonograms _ank, _ink, and _unk
Write nk
Lesson 109
Identify features of Alaska
Describe a glacier
Create frost
Complete a sentence about Alaska
Review blends and digraphs
Review words with blends and digraphs
Review all High-Frequency Words
Write the lowercase alphabet
Practice correct pencil hold, paper slant, and posture
Lesson 110
Read orally to communicate the author's message
Recall a sequence of activities
Lessons
Lesson 106: Hawaii
Lesson 107: Canyons
Lesson 108: Caverns
Lesson 109: Alaska
Lesson 110: Camping
Learning Center - Our Country
Snack of the Week - Fruit Cup
Show and Tell - Encourage the students to bring something from another state
Heritage Studies
The Tropics
Canyons
Language Arts
Phonics and English Skills
Sing the Songs
Read Word Families
Teach New Word Families
Guided Reading
Handwriting
Phonics
Phonics Practice: The King
Phonics Fun: Picking Bananas
Phonics Fun: Statue
Phonics Practice: Tom Swims
Phonics Fun: In a Cavern
Phonics Fun: Build a Snowman
Activities
Sentence Roundup
Write Now!
Write Now! pp. 109-113
Arts and Crafts
Buddy Banana
Cactus Pet Rocks
Colored Rocks
Polar Bear
Salt Dough Stars
Motor Skills
Fruit Basket Upset
Pin the Tail on the Donkey
Stalactite and Stalagmite
Snowball Relay
Shadow Tag
Sing a Song
America, Land that I Love
Into the Cavern
Science
Exploring Coconuts
Grand Canyon Tour
Captivating Caves
Caverns
Tundra
Shadows on the Wall
Biblical Integration Concepts
God is great, and God is good
God created me and all things
The Bible is God's Word, and it is true
I learn in order to serve God and others
Biblical Integration Strategies
Explain that the Bible records that people hid from their enemies in caves; the Israelites hid in caves when midianites were oppressing them (Judges 6:2)
Utilize Learning Centers
Play music and encourage students to sing and join in
Use colorful pictures and costumes to help students focus on the theme
Encourage the use of daily practice of Review Words and High Frequency Words
Display the 4 Biblical Worldview Themes
Group students for reading instruction
Set up a literacy center with a variety of books (see teacher guide for suggestion) focused on the weekly theme
Quarter 3
Unit 5: Blue Skies and Gray / Week 23: Looking at the Seasons
(updated 12/28/23)
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Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.ELF:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Early Learning Foundations
Performance Standard: ELA.K.ELF.A:Fluency
Standard: ELA.K.I
Description: Read emergent-reader texts with purpose and understanding.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.ELF:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Early Learning Foundations
Performance Standard: ELA.K.ELF.B:Phonics and Word Recognition
Standard: ELA.K.II
Description: Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words. •Demonstrate basic knowledge of one-to-one letter-sound correspondences by producing the primary or many of the most frequent sound for each consonant. •Associate the long and short sounds with common spellings (graphemes) for the five major vowels. •Read common high-frequency words by sight (e.g., the, of, to, you, she, my, is, are, do, does). •Distinguish between similarly spelled words by identifying the sounds of the letters that differ.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.ELF:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Early Learning Foundations
Performance Standard: ELA.K.ELF.C:Handwriting
Standard: ELA.K.III
Description: Print upper- and lowercase letters
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.ELF:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Early Learning Foundations
Description: Demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds (phonemes). •Recognize and produce rhyming words. •Count, pronounce, blend, and segment syllables in spoken words. •Blend and segment onsets and rimes of single-syllable spoken words. •Isolate and pronounce the initial, medial vowel, and final sounds (phonemes) in three-phoneme (consonant-vowel-consonant, or CVC) words. (This does not include CVCs ending with /l/, /r/, or /x/.) •Add or substitute individual sounds (phonemes) in simple, one-syllable words to make new words.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.ELF:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Early Learning Foundations
Performance Standard: ELA.K.ELF.E:Print concepts
Standard: ELA.K.V
Description: Demonstrate understanding of the organization and basic features of print. •Follow words from left to right, top to bottom, and page by page. •Recognize that spoken words are represented in written language by specific sequences of letters. •Understand that words are separated by spaces in print. •Recognize and name all upper- and lowercase letters of the alphabet.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.A:Key Ideas and Details
Standard: ELA.K.1
Description: With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.A:Key Ideas and Details
Standard: ELA.K.2
Description: With prompting and support, retell familiar stories, including key details.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.A:Key Ideas and Details
Standard: ELA.K.3
Description: With prompting and support, identify characters, settings, and major events in a story.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.A:Key Ideas and Details
Standard: ELA.K.4
Description: With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.A:Key Ideas and Details
Standard: ELA.K.5
Description: With prompting and support, identify the main topic and retell key details of a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.B:Craft and Structure
Standard: ELA.K.7
Description: With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about unknown words in a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.B:Craft and Structure
Standard: ELA.K.10
Description: With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about unknown words in a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.D:Range of Reading and Text Complexity
Standard: ELA.K.18
Description: Actively engage in group reading activities with purpose and understanding.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.D:Range of Reading and Text Complexity
Standard: ELA.K.19
Description: Actively engage in group reading activities with purpose and understanding.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.RW:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Speaking and Listening
Performance Standard: ELA.K.RW.A:Comprehension and Collaboration
Standard: ELA.K.30
Description: Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about kindergarten topics and texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups. •Follow agreed-upon rules for discussions (e.g., listening to others and taking turns speaking about the topics and texts under discussion). •Continue a conversation through multiple exchanges.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.RW:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Speaking and Listening
Performance Standard: ELA.K.RW.A:Comprehension and Collaboration
Standard: ELA.K.31
Description: Confirm understanding of a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media by asking and answering questions about key details and requesting clarification if something is not understood.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.RW:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Speaking and Listening
Performance Standard: ELA.K.RW.A:Comprehension and Collaboration
Standard: ELA.K.32
Description: Ask and answer questions in order to seek help, get information, or clarify something that is not understood.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.RW:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Speaking and Listening
Performance Standard: ELA.K.RW.B:Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.33
Description: Describe familiar people, places, things, and events and, with prompting and support, provide additional detail.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.RW:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Speaking and Listening
Performance Standard: ELA.K.RW.B:Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.34
Description: Add drawings or other visual displays to descriptions as desired to provide additional detail.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.RW:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Speaking and Listening
Performance Standard: ELA.K.RW.B:Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.35
Description: Speak audibly and express thoughts, feelings, and ideas clearly.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.L:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Language
Performance Standard: ELA.K.L.A:Conventions of Standard English
Standard: ELA.K.36
Description: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking. •Print many upper- and lowercase letters. •Use frequently occurring nouns and verbs. •Form regular plural nouns orally by adding /s/ or /es/ (e.g., dog, dogs; wish, wishes). •Understand and use question words (interrogatives) (e.g., who, what, where, when, why, how). •Use the most frequently occurring prepositions (e.g., to, from, in, out, on, off, for, of, by, with). •Produce and expand complete sentences in shared language activities.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.L:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Language
Performance Standard: ELA.K.L.A:Conventions of Standard English
Standard: ELA.K.37
Description: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing. •Capitalize the first word in a sentence and the pronoun I. •Recognize and name end punctuation. •Write a letter or letters for most consonant and short-vowel sounds (phonemes). •Spell simple words phonetically, drawing on knowledge of sound-letter relationships.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.L:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Language
Performance Standard: ELA.K.L.C:Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
Standard: ELA.K.39
Description: Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on kindergarten reading and content. •Identify new meanings for familiar words and apply them accurately (e.g., knowing duck is a bird and learning the verb to duck). •Introduce the most frequently occurring inflections and affixes (e.g., -ed, -s, re-, un-, pre-, -ful, -less) as a clue to the meaning of an unknown word.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.L:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Language
Performance Standard: ELA.K.L.C:Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
Standard: ELA.K.40
Description: With guidance and support from adults, explore word relationships and nuances in word meanings. •Sort common objects into categories (e.g., shapes, foods) to gain a sense of the concepts the categories represent. •Demonstrate understanding of frequently occurring verbs and adjectives by relating them to their opposites (antonyms). •Identify real-life connections between words and their use (e.g., note places at school that are colorful). •Distinguish shades of meaning among verbs describing the same general action (e.g., walk, march, strut, prance) by acting out the meanings.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.L:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Language
Performance Standard: ELA.K.L.C:Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
Standard: ELA.K.41
Description: Use words and phrases acquired through conversations, reading and being read to, and responding to texts.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: Science
Strand: S.K:West Virginia Science - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: S.K.GS:General Science
Standard: S.K.GS.7
Description: use and share observations of local weather conditions to describe patterns over time
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Science
Strand: S.K:West Virginia Science - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: S.K.GS:General Science
Standard: S.K.GS.8
Description: ask questions to obtain information about the purpose of weather forecasting to prepare for, and respond to, severe weather
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Social Studies
Strand: SS.K:West Virginia Social Studies - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: C.SS.K:Civics
Standard: SS.K.1
Description: Develop an understanding of citizenship and patriotism through a variety of experiences (e.g., appropriate behavior, sharing, taking turns, volunteering, being honest and demonstrating responsibility for materials and personal belongings).
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Social Studies
Strand: SS.K:West Virginia Social Studies - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: C.SS.K:Civics
Standard: SS.K.3
Description: Investigate the need for rules in their environment, create a set of classroom rules, and explore the consequences for not following the rules.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Social Studies
Strand: SS.K:West Virginia Social Studies - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: C.SS.K:Civics
Standard: SS.K.4
Description: Investigate the leadership roles within their families, classrooms and schools and demonstrate their understanding through activities such as role play and classroom jobs.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Social Studies
Strand: SS.K:West Virginia Social Studies - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: G.SS.K:Geography
Standard: SS.K.11
Description: Compare and contrast the ways humans adapt based on seasons and weather.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Social Studies
Strand: SS.K:West Virginia Social Studies - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: G.SS.K:Geography
Standard: SS.K.13
Description: Investigate the need for symbols in daily life (e.g., exit, stop sign, bathroom signs, school zone, stop light, etc.).
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
Student Objectives
Lesson 111
State that God created day and night
Explain what causes day and night
Identify the Phonics Characters Miss Long and Marker e
Compare and contrast the changes that occur in the sky from day to night and night to day
Use letter-sound association for a
Identify short or long a in words
Read words with silent e
Read words with the phonograms _ake and _ave
Identify Miss Long as the long-vowel character
Identify Marker e as the silent e character
Place a macron over long vowels
Read the high-frequency words have and purple
Write c, d, and a
Lesson 112
Define what a season is
Name the four seasons
Explain what causes the seasons
Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to compose a sentence about a season
Read words with the phonograms _ame, _ape, and _ate
State that we learn phonics in order to read the Bible
Write a sentence
Lesson 113
Compare and contrast spring and summer
Confirm understanding of a text read aloud
Read words with the phonograms: _ade, _afe, and _ale
Demonstrate consistent slant in handwriting
Write f, j, and k
Lesson 114
Compare and contrast fall and winter
Explain why leaves change color in the fall
Use letter-sound association for e
Read a word with the phonogram _ese
Identify short or long e in words
Write e and s
Lesson 115
Interpret the action taking place in pictures
Lessons
Lesson 111: The Sun Is Always Shining
Lesson 112: What is a Season?
Lesson 113: Spring and Summer
Lesson 114: Fall and Winter
Lesson 115: Jake and Scuff
Learning Center -Apple Sort
Show and Tell - Encourage each child to bring a photo of himself playing in the snow or in some other kind of weather
Snack of the Week - Summer Punch
Science
Dawn to Dusk
God's Four Seasons
The World in Bloom
Milk Carton Flower Pots
Fall into Winter
Making Applesauce
Language Arts
Phonics and English Skills
Sing the Sounds
Teach Songs
Read Word Families
Finding the Patterns
High-Frequency Words
Review Word Families
Handwriting
Guided Reading
Phonics
Phonics Practice: The Lake
Phonics Fun: Phonics Friends
Phonics Fun: Favorite Weather
Phonics Practice: The Sale
Phonics Fun: Launching Rockets
Phonics Fun: Favorite Season
Activities
Miss Long and Marker e
Tic-Tac-Toe
Sentence Roundup
Write Now!
Write Now! page 114
Motor Skills
Shadow Tag
Miss Long's Vowel Cookies
Weather Motions
Bright Sun
Arts and Crafts
Sun
My Favorite Season
Changing Tree
Sing a Song
The Sun
The Weather
Weather
Seasons
Biblical Integration Concepts
God is great and God is good
God created me and all things
The Bible is God's Word, and it is true
I learn in order to serve God and others
Biblical Integration Strategies
Tell the story of Noah seeing the rainbow after the Flood; the rainbow guaranteed not only that the earth would not be destroyed but also that the seasons would continue while the earth remained (Genesis 8:22)
Use classroom decorations to enhance the weekly theme
Utilize learning centers
Differentiate reading instruction
Post daily topics with listening lesson and composition
Have students practice Word Review Cards and High-Frequency Words daily
Utilize worktext pages and phonic practice pages
Students should be presented with colorful illustrations to reinforce letter sounds
Provide opportunity for open play and discover in the learning centers
Unit 5: Blue Skies and Gray / Week 24: Weather Watching
(updated 12/28/23)
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.ELF:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Early Learning Foundations
Performance Standard: ELA.K.ELF.C:Handwriting
Standard: ELA.K.III
Description: Print upper- and lowercase letters
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.ELF:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Early Learning Foundations
Description: Demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds (phonemes). •Recognize and produce rhyming words. •Count, pronounce, blend, and segment syllables in spoken words. •Blend and segment onsets and rimes of single-syllable spoken words. •Isolate and pronounce the initial, medial vowel, and final sounds (phonemes) in three-phoneme (consonant-vowel-consonant, or CVC) words. (This does not include CVCs ending with /l/, /r/, or /x/.) •Add or substitute individual sounds (phonemes) in simple, one-syllable words to make new words.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.ELF:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Early Learning Foundations
Performance Standard: ELA.K.ELF.E:Print concepts
Standard: ELA.K.V
Description: Demonstrate understanding of the organization and basic features of print. •Follow words from left to right, top to bottom, and page by page. •Recognize that spoken words are represented in written language by specific sequences of letters. •Understand that words are separated by spaces in print. •Recognize and name all upper- and lowercase letters of the alphabet.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.A:Key Ideas and Details
Standard: ELA.K.1
Description: With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.A:Key Ideas and Details
Standard: ELA.K.3
Description: With prompting and support, identify characters, settings, and major events in a story.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.A:Key Ideas and Details
Standard: ELA.K.4
Description: With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.B:Craft and Structure
Standard: ELA.K.7
Description: With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about unknown words in a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.B:Craft and Structure
Standard: ELA.K.8
Description: With prompting and support, recognize common types of texts (e.g., storybooks, poems).
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.B:Craft and Structure
Standard: ELA.K.9
Description: With prompting and support, name the author and illustrator of a story and define the role of each in telling the story.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.B:Craft and Structure
Standard: ELA.K.10
Description: With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about unknown words in a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.B:Craft and Structure
Standard: ELA.K.11
Description: With prompting and support, identify the front cover, back cover, and title page of a book.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.C:Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.13
Description: With prompting and support, describe the relationship between illustrations and the story in which they appear (e.g., what moment in a story an illustration depicts).
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.C:Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.15
Description: With prompting and support, describe the relationship between illustrations and the text in which they appear (e.g., what person, place, thing, or idea in the text an illustration depicts).
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.D:Range of Reading and Text Complexity
Standard: ELA.K.18
Description: Actively engage in group reading activities with purpose and understanding.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.D:Range of Reading and Text Complexity
Standard: ELA.K.19
Description: Actively engage in group reading activities with purpose and understanding.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.W:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Writing
Performance Standard: ELA.K.W.B:Production and Distribution of Writing
Standard: ELA.K.24
Description: With guidance and support from adults, respond to questions and suggestions from peers and add details to strengthen writing as needed.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.RW:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Speaking and Listening
Performance Standard: ELA.K.RW.A:Comprehension and Collaboration
Standard: ELA.K.30
Description: Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about kindergarten topics and texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups. •Follow agreed-upon rules for discussions (e.g., listening to others and taking turns speaking about the topics and texts under discussion). •Continue a conversation through multiple exchanges.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.RW:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Speaking and Listening
Performance Standard: ELA.K.RW.A:Comprehension and Collaboration
Standard: ELA.K.31
Description: Confirm understanding of a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media by asking and answering questions about key details and requesting clarification if something is not understood.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.RW:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Speaking and Listening
Performance Standard: ELA.K.RW.A:Comprehension and Collaboration
Standard: ELA.K.32
Description: Ask and answer questions in order to seek help, get information, or clarify something that is not understood.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.RW:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Speaking and Listening
Performance Standard: ELA.K.RW.B:Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.33
Description: Describe familiar people, places, things, and events and, with prompting and support, provide additional detail.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.RW:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Speaking and Listening
Performance Standard: ELA.K.RW.B:Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.35
Description: Speak audibly and express thoughts, feelings, and ideas clearly.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.L:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Language
Performance Standard: ELA.K.L.A:Conventions of Standard English
Standard: ELA.K.36
Description: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking. •Print many upper- and lowercase letters. •Use frequently occurring nouns and verbs. •Form regular plural nouns orally by adding /s/ or /es/ (e.g., dog, dogs; wish, wishes). •Understand and use question words (interrogatives) (e.g., who, what, where, when, why, how). •Use the most frequently occurring prepositions (e.g., to, from, in, out, on, off, for, of, by, with). •Produce and expand complete sentences in shared language activities.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.L:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Language
Performance Standard: ELA.K.L.A:Conventions of Standard English
Standard: ELA.K.37
Description: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing. •Capitalize the first word in a sentence and the pronoun I. •Recognize and name end punctuation. •Write a letter or letters for most consonant and short-vowel sounds (phonemes). •Spell simple words phonetically, drawing on knowledge of sound-letter relationships.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.L:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Language
Performance Standard: ELA.K.L.C:Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
Standard: ELA.K.39
Description: Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on kindergarten reading and content. •Identify new meanings for familiar words and apply them accurately (e.g., knowing duck is a bird and learning the verb to duck). •Introduce the most frequently occurring inflections and affixes (e.g., -ed, -s, re-, un-, pre-, -ful, -less) as a clue to the meaning of an unknown word.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.L:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Language
Performance Standard: ELA.K.L.C:Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
Standard: ELA.K.40
Description: With guidance and support from adults, explore word relationships and nuances in word meanings. •Sort common objects into categories (e.g., shapes, foods) to gain a sense of the concepts the categories represent. •Demonstrate understanding of frequently occurring verbs and adjectives by relating them to their opposites (antonyms). •Identify real-life connections between words and their use (e.g., note places at school that are colorful). •Distinguish shades of meaning among verbs describing the same general action (e.g., walk, march, strut, prance) by acting out the meanings.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: Science
Strand: S.K:West Virginia Science - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: S.K.GS:General Science
Standard: S.K.GS.7
Description: use and share observations of local weather conditions to describe patterns over time
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Science
Strand: S.K:West Virginia Science - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: S.K.GS:General Science
Standard: S.K.GS.8
Description: ask questions to obtain information about the purpose of weather forecasting to prepare for, and respond to, severe weather
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
Student Objectives
Lesson 116
Relate that weather varies by season
Describe the weather and make daily entries in a class weather journal
Use letter-sound association for i
Identify short or long i in words
Read words with the phonograms _ide, _ike, _ime, and _ite
Write i, l, and t
Lesson 117
Conduct experiments to find out what causes thunder and lightning
Identify Benjamin Franklin as the one who discovered that lightning is electricity
State that God has the weather in His control
Read words with the phonograms _ile, _ine, _ipe, _ire, and _ive
Recognize correct spacing between words in a written sentence
State that learning to write shows love to others
Lesson 118
Locate the coldest areas in the world on a globe
Describe winter weather
Use letter-sound association for o
Identify short or long o in words
Read words with the phonograms _oke, _ole, _ome, _one, _ope, and _ose
Write o, q, and g
Lesson 119
State that a weather forecast describes the weather over a period of time
Compose a weather forecast and present it to the class
Use letter-sound association for u
Identify short or long u in words
Identify the long vowel sound in a word
Read words with the phonograms _ude, _une, and _ute
Write u, y, and w
Lesson 120
State that we learn phonics/reading to learn about God's world
Answer literal and higher-order thinking questions
Engage in a group reading activity with purpose and understanding
Answer questions about details in a text
Lessons
Lesson 116: Spring and Summer Weather
Lesson 117: Thunder and Lightning
Lesson 118: Fall and Winter Weather
Lesson 119: Forecasting the Weather
Lesson 120: The Map
Learning Center - Heating Up
Snack of the Week - Cloud Cookies
Show and Tell - Encourage the students to bring their favorite umbrellas
Motor Skills
Ice Skating
Pack a Snack: Popsicles
Language Arts
Phonics and English Skills
Sing the Sounds
Sound Sense
Read Word Families
Teach New Word Families
Handwriting
Phonics
Phonics Practice: Hide
Phonics Fun: Rain or Shine
Phonics Fun: Rain, Rain, Rain
Phonics Practice: Cole Slips
Phonics Fun: Catch a Snowflake
Phonics Fun: Sailing
Activities
Sentence Roundup
Write Now!
Write Now! pp. 119-123
Arts and Crafts
Sun and Rain
Sing a Song
God's Four Seasons
Itsy Bitsy Spider
Summer Tree Print
When it Gets Cold
Summer Fun
Science
Weather
The Sun's Power
Stormy Weather
Rocks
Temperatures Drop
Ice Designs
Forecast It
Recording Temperatures
Biblical Integration Concepts
God is great, and God is good
God created me and all things
The Bible is God's Word, and it is true
I learn in order to serve God and others
Biblical Integration Strategies
Tell the story of Joshua and how the sun and moon stood still and the day was lengthened so that the men could win a great victory (Joshua 10:12-13)
Utilize colorful pictures and songs to reinforce phonics and vocabulary
Assign writing practice daily
Differentiate reading instruction
Display visuals
Utilize the Instructional Aids
Display the 4 Biblical Worldview Themes
Post the Alphabet Song Posters/Visuals
Guide discussions
Set up a variety of Learning Centers
Unit 5: Blue Skies and Gray / Week 25: Season Fun
(updated 12/28/23)
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.ELF:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Early Learning Foundations
Performance Standard: ELA.K.ELF.A:Fluency
Standard: ELA.K.I
Description: Read emergent-reader texts with purpose and understanding.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.ELF:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Early Learning Foundations
Performance Standard: ELA.K.ELF.B:Phonics and Word Recognition
Standard: ELA.K.II
Description: Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words. •Demonstrate basic knowledge of one-to-one letter-sound correspondences by producing the primary or many of the most frequent sound for each consonant. •Associate the long and short sounds with common spellings (graphemes) for the five major vowels. •Read common high-frequency words by sight (e.g., the, of, to, you, she, my, is, are, do, does). •Distinguish between similarly spelled words by identifying the sounds of the letters that differ.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.ELF:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Early Learning Foundations
Performance Standard: ELA.K.ELF.C:Handwriting
Standard: ELA.K.III
Description: Print upper- and lowercase letters
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.ELF:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Early Learning Foundations
Description: Demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds (phonemes). •Recognize and produce rhyming words. •Count, pronounce, blend, and segment syllables in spoken words. •Blend and segment onsets and rimes of single-syllable spoken words. •Isolate and pronounce the initial, medial vowel, and final sounds (phonemes) in three-phoneme (consonant-vowel-consonant, or CVC) words. (This does not include CVCs ending with /l/, /r/, or /x/.) •Add or substitute individual sounds (phonemes) in simple, one-syllable words to make new words.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.ELF:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Early Learning Foundations
Performance Standard: ELA.K.ELF.E:Print concepts
Standard: ELA.K.V
Description: Demonstrate understanding of the organization and basic features of print. •Follow words from left to right, top to bottom, and page by page. •Recognize that spoken words are represented in written language by specific sequences of letters. •Understand that words are separated by spaces in print. •Recognize and name all upper- and lowercase letters of the alphabet.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.A:Key Ideas and Details
Standard: ELA.K.1
Description: With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.A:Key Ideas and Details
Standard: ELA.K.4
Description: With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.B:Craft and Structure
Standard: ELA.K.7
Description: With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about unknown words in a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.B:Craft and Structure
Standard: ELA.K.10
Description: With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about unknown words in a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.C:Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.13
Description: With prompting and support, describe the relationship between illustrations and the story in which they appear (e.g., what moment in a story an illustration depicts).
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.D:Range of Reading and Text Complexity
Standard: ELA.K.18
Description: Actively engage in group reading activities with purpose and understanding.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.D:Range of Reading and Text Complexity
Standard: ELA.K.18
Description: Actively engage in group reading activities with purpose and understanding.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.D:Range of Reading and Text Complexity
Standard: ELA.K.19
Description: Actively engage in group reading activities with purpose and understanding.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.RW:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Speaking and Listening
Performance Standard: ELA.K.RW.A:Comprehension and Collaboration
Standard: ELA.K.30
Description: Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about kindergarten topics and texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups. •Follow agreed-upon rules for discussions (e.g., listening to others and taking turns speaking about the topics and texts under discussion). •Continue a conversation through multiple exchanges.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.RW:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Speaking and Listening
Performance Standard: ELA.K.RW.A:Comprehension and Collaboration
Standard: ELA.K.30
Description: Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about kindergarten topics and texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups. •Follow agreed-upon rules for discussions (e.g., listening to others and taking turns speaking about the topics and texts under discussion). •Continue a conversation through multiple exchanges.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.RW:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Speaking and Listening
Performance Standard: ELA.K.RW.A:Comprehension and Collaboration
Standard: ELA.K.31
Description: Confirm understanding of a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media by asking and answering questions about key details and requesting clarification if something is not understood.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.RW:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Speaking and Listening
Performance Standard: ELA.K.RW.A:Comprehension and Collaboration
Standard: ELA.K.31
Description: Confirm understanding of a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media by asking and answering questions about key details and requesting clarification if something is not understood.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.RW:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Speaking and Listening
Performance Standard: ELA.K.RW.A:Comprehension and Collaboration
Standard: ELA.K.32
Description: Ask and answer questions in order to seek help, get information, or clarify something that is not understood.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.RW:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Speaking and Listening
Performance Standard: ELA.K.RW.A:Comprehension and Collaboration
Standard: ELA.K.32
Description: Ask and answer questions in order to seek help, get information, or clarify something that is not understood.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.RW:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Speaking and Listening
Performance Standard: ELA.K.RW.B:Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.33
Description: Describe familiar people, places, things, and events and, with prompting and support, provide additional detail.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.RW:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Speaking and Listening
Performance Standard: ELA.K.RW.B:Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.33
Description: Describe familiar people, places, things, and events and, with prompting and support, provide additional detail.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.RW:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Speaking and Listening
Performance Standard: ELA.K.RW.B:Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.35
Description: Speak audibly and express thoughts, feelings, and ideas clearly.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.L:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Language
Performance Standard: ELA.K.L.A:Conventions of Standard English
Standard: ELA.K.36
Description: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking. •Print many upper- and lowercase letters. •Use frequently occurring nouns and verbs. •Form regular plural nouns orally by adding /s/ or /es/ (e.g., dog, dogs; wish, wishes). •Understand and use question words (interrogatives) (e.g., who, what, where, when, why, how). •Use the most frequently occurring prepositions (e.g., to, from, in, out, on, off, for, of, by, with). •Produce and expand complete sentences in shared language activities.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.L:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Language
Performance Standard: ELA.K.L.A:Conventions of Standard English
Standard: ELA.K.36
Description: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking. •Print many upper- and lowercase letters. •Use frequently occurring nouns and verbs. •Form regular plural nouns orally by adding /s/ or /es/ (e.g., dog, dogs; wish, wishes). •Understand and use question words (interrogatives) (e.g., who, what, where, when, why, how). •Use the most frequently occurring prepositions (e.g., to, from, in, out, on, off, for, of, by, with). •Produce and expand complete sentences in shared language activities.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.L:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Language
Performance Standard: ELA.K.L.A:Conventions of Standard English
Standard: ELA.K.37
Description: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing. •Capitalize the first word in a sentence and the pronoun I. •Recognize and name end punctuation. •Write a letter or letters for most consonant and short-vowel sounds (phonemes). •Spell simple words phonetically, drawing on knowledge of sound-letter relationships.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.L:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Language
Performance Standard: ELA.K.L.A:Conventions of Standard English
Standard: ELA.K.37
Description: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing. •Capitalize the first word in a sentence and the pronoun I. •Recognize and name end punctuation. •Write a letter or letters for most consonant and short-vowel sounds (phonemes). •Spell simple words phonetically, drawing on knowledge of sound-letter relationships.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.L:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Language
Performance Standard: ELA.K.L.C:Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
Standard: ELA.K.39
Description: Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on kindergarten reading and content. •Identify new meanings for familiar words and apply them accurately (e.g., knowing duck is a bird and learning the verb to duck). •Introduce the most frequently occurring inflections and affixes (e.g., -ed, -s, re-, un-, pre-, -ful, -less) as a clue to the meaning of an unknown word.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.L:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Language
Performance Standard: ELA.K.L.C:Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
Standard: ELA.K.39
Description: Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on kindergarten reading and content. •Identify new meanings for familiar words and apply them accurately (e.g., knowing duck is a bird and learning the verb to duck). •Introduce the most frequently occurring inflections and affixes (e.g., -ed, -s, re-, un-, pre-, -ful, -less) as a clue to the meaning of an unknown word.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.L:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Language
Performance Standard: ELA.K.L.C:Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
Standard: ELA.K.41
Description: Use words and phrases acquired through conversations, reading and being read to, and responding to texts.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: Science
Strand: S.K:West Virginia Science - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: S.K.GS:General Science
Standard: S.K.GS.3
Description: use observations to describe patterns of what plants and animals (including humans) need to survive
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Science
Strand: S.K:West Virginia Science - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: S.K.GS:General Science
Standard: S.K.GS.3
Description: use observations to describe patterns of what plants and animals (including humans) need to survive
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Science
Strand: S.K:West Virginia Science - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: S.K.GS:General Science
Standard: S.K.GS.7
Description: use and share observations of local weather conditions to describe patterns over time
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Science
Strand: S.K:West Virginia Science - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: S.K.GS:General Science
Standard: S.K.GS.7
Description: use and share observations of local weather conditions to describe patterns over time
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Science
Strand: S.K:West Virginia Science - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: S.K.GS:General Science
Standard: S.K.GS.9
Description: make observation to determine the effect of sunlight on Earth's surface
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Science
Strand: S.K:West Virginia Science - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: S.K.GS:General Science
Standard: S.K.GS.9
Description: make observation to determine the effect of sunlight on Earth's surface
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
Student Objectives
Lesson 121
Name some of the activities that can be enjoyed in the fall
Identify the Phonics Characters Miss Long and Miss Silent
Identify Miss Silent as the silent Phonics Character when two vowels are used together in a word
Use letter-sound association for ai
Read words with vowel digraphs
Read words with the phonograms _ail and _ain
Place a macron over long vowels
Read the high-frequency word they
Write a sentence
Lesson 122
Name some activities people enjoy in the winter
Use letter-sound association for ay
Identify the semivowel y
Read words with the phonogram _ay
Write a phrase
Lesson 123
Share experiences of fun activities the students have enjoyed in spring
List some fun activities that can be done in spring
Use letter-sound association for ea
Read words with the phonograms _ea and _eat
Write b, p, and r
Lesson 124
Name things that can be done for fun in the summer
Write a sentence about a summer activity
Use letter-sound association for ee
Read words with the phonograms _ee and _eed
Lesson 125
List some things that can be done on a train trip
Find key details in the text
Lessons
Lesson 121: Fall Fun
Lesson 122: Winter Fun
Lesson 123: Spring Fun
Lesson 124: Summer Fun
Lesson 125: The Train Ride
Learning Center -Kite Tails
Snack of the Week - Apple Dip
Show and Tell -Encourage the students to bring something associated with their favorite outdoor activity
Heritage Studies
Fall
Spring
Summer
Language Arts
Phonics and English Skills
Sing the Sounds
Read Word Families
Sound Sense
Teaching Word Families
High Frequency Words
Handwriting
Phonics
Phonics Practice: The Pail
Phonics Fun: Disappearing Leaves
Phonics Fun: Build a Fort
Phonics Practice: The Meal
Phonics Fun: Build a Nest
Phonics Fun: Bounce the Ball
Activities
Miss Long and Miss Silent
Sentence Roundup
Grammar
Compound Words
Write Now!
Write Now! pages 124-128
Arts and Crafts
Leaf Rubbing
Snow Scene
Kite
Summer Weather
Colors of the Rainbows
My F
Favorite Activity
Sing a Song
God's Four Seasons
When It Gets Cold
Motor Skills
Torn Fall Tree
Pack a Snack: Snowman
Jump over the Puddle
What Time Is It?
Science
Winter
Make Rain
Make a Cloud
Biblical Integration Concepts
God is great, and God is good
God created me and all things
The Bible is God's Word, and it is true
I learn in order to serve God and others
Biblical Integration Strategies
Discuss the story of Noah and the rainbow as a sign of God's promises
Set up Learning Centers
Display Visuals for weekly theme
Assign writing practice
Have students work in partners to practice reading skills
Assign worktext and phonics practice pages
Utilize the phonics characters to reinforce phonics and spelling
Post Word Family cards
have students practice High-Frequency Words daily
Post Song Charts
Set up displays around the classroom
Unit 5: Blue Skies and Gray / Week 26: Dressing for the Seasons
(updated 12/28/23)
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.ELF:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Early Learning Foundations
Performance Standard: ELA.K.ELF.A:Fluency
Standard: ELA.K.I
Description: Read emergent-reader texts with purpose and understanding.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.ELF:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Early Learning Foundations
Performance Standard: ELA.K.ELF.B:Phonics and Word Recognition
Standard: ELA.K.II
Description: Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words. •Demonstrate basic knowledge of one-to-one letter-sound correspondences by producing the primary or many of the most frequent sound for each consonant. •Associate the long and short sounds with common spellings (graphemes) for the five major vowels. •Read common high-frequency words by sight (e.g., the, of, to, you, she, my, is, are, do, does). •Distinguish between similarly spelled words by identifying the sounds of the letters that differ.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.ELF:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Early Learning Foundations
Performance Standard: ELA.K.ELF.C:Handwriting
Standard: ELA.K.III
Description: Print upper- and lowercase letters
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.ELF:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Early Learning Foundations
Description: Demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds (phonemes). •Recognize and produce rhyming words. •Count, pronounce, blend, and segment syllables in spoken words. •Blend and segment onsets and rimes of single-syllable spoken words. •Isolate and pronounce the initial, medial vowel, and final sounds (phonemes) in three-phoneme (consonant-vowel-consonant, or CVC) words. (This does not include CVCs ending with /l/, /r/, or /x/.) •Add or substitute individual sounds (phonemes) in simple, one-syllable words to make new words.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.ELF:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Early Learning Foundations
Performance Standard: ELA.K.ELF.E:Print concepts
Standard: ELA.K.V
Description: Demonstrate understanding of the organization and basic features of print. •Follow words from left to right, top to bottom, and page by page. •Recognize that spoken words are represented in written language by specific sequences of letters. •Understand that words are separated by spaces in print. •Recognize and name all upper- and lowercase letters of the alphabet.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.A:Key Ideas and Details
Standard: ELA.K.1
Description: With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.A:Key Ideas and Details
Standard: ELA.K.2
Description: With prompting and support, retell familiar stories, including key details.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.A:Key Ideas and Details
Standard: ELA.K.3
Description: With prompting and support, identify characters, settings, and major events in a story.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.A:Key Ideas and Details
Standard: ELA.K.4
Description: With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.B:Craft and Structure
Standard: ELA.K.7
Description: With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about unknown words in a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.B:Craft and Structure
Standard: ELA.K.9
Description: With prompting and support, name the author and illustrator of a story and define the role of each in telling the story.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.B:Craft and Structure
Standard: ELA.K.10
Description: With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about unknown words in a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.B:Craft and Structure
Standard: ELA.K.11
Description: With prompting and support, identify the front cover, back cover, and title page of a book.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.C:Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.13
Description: With prompting and support, describe the relationship between illustrations and the story in which they appear (e.g., what moment in a story an illustration depicts).
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.D:Range of Reading and Text Complexity
Standard: ELA.K.18
Description: Actively engage in group reading activities with purpose and understanding.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.D:Range of Reading and Text Complexity
Standard: ELA.K.19
Description: Actively engage in group reading activities with purpose and understanding.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.W:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Writing
Performance Standard: ELA.K.W.A:Text Types and Purposes
Standard: ELA.K.21
Description: Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to compose informative/explanatory texts in which they name what they are writing about and supply some information about the topic.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.RW:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Speaking and Listening
Performance Standard: ELA.K.RW.A:Comprehension and Collaboration
Standard: ELA.K.30
Description: Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about kindergarten topics and texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups. •Follow agreed-upon rules for discussions (e.g., listening to others and taking turns speaking about the topics and texts under discussion). •Continue a conversation through multiple exchanges.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.RW:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Speaking and Listening
Performance Standard: ELA.K.RW.B:Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.33
Description: Describe familiar people, places, things, and events and, with prompting and support, provide additional detail.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.RW:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Speaking and Listening
Performance Standard: ELA.K.RW.B:Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.34
Description: Add drawings or other visual displays to descriptions as desired to provide additional detail.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.RW:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Speaking and Listening
Performance Standard: ELA.K.RW.B:Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.35
Description: Speak audibly and express thoughts, feelings, and ideas clearly.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.L:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Language
Performance Standard: ELA.K.L.A:Conventions of Standard English
Standard: ELA.K.36
Description: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking. •Print many upper- and lowercase letters. •Use frequently occurring nouns and verbs. •Form regular plural nouns orally by adding /s/ or /es/ (e.g., dog, dogs; wish, wishes). •Understand and use question words (interrogatives) (e.g., who, what, where, when, why, how). •Use the most frequently occurring prepositions (e.g., to, from, in, out, on, off, for, of, by, with). •Produce and expand complete sentences in shared language activities.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.L:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Language
Performance Standard: ELA.K.L.A:Conventions of Standard English
Standard: ELA.K.37
Description: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing. •Capitalize the first word in a sentence and the pronoun I. •Recognize and name end punctuation. •Write a letter or letters for most consonant and short-vowel sounds (phonemes). •Spell simple words phonetically, drawing on knowledge of sound-letter relationships.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.L:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Language
Performance Standard: ELA.K.L.C:Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
Standard: ELA.K.39
Description: Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on kindergarten reading and content. •Identify new meanings for familiar words and apply them accurately (e.g., knowing duck is a bird and learning the verb to duck). •Introduce the most frequently occurring inflections and affixes (e.g., -ed, -s, re-, un-, pre-, -ful, -less) as a clue to the meaning of an unknown word.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.L:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Language
Performance Standard: ELA.K.L.C:Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
Standard: ELA.K.40
Description: With guidance and support from adults, explore word relationships and nuances in word meanings. •Sort common objects into categories (e.g., shapes, foods) to gain a sense of the concepts the categories represent. •Demonstrate understanding of frequently occurring verbs and adjectives by relating them to their opposites (antonyms). •Identify real-life connections between words and their use (e.g., note places at school that are colorful). •Distinguish shades of meaning among verbs describing the same general action (e.g., walk, march, strut, prance) by acting out the meanings.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.L:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Language
Performance Standard: ELA.K.L.C:Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
Standard: ELA.K.41
Description: Use words and phrases acquired through conversations, reading and being read to, and responding to texts.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: Science
Strand: S.K:West Virginia Science - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: S.K.GS:General Science
Standard: S.K.GS.7
Description: use and share observations of local weather conditions to describe patterns over time
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Science
Strand: S.K:West Virginia Science - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: S.K.GS:General Science
Standard: S.K.GS.8
Description: ask questions to obtain information about the purpose of weather forecasting to prepare for, and respond to, severe weather
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Science
Strand: S.K:West Virginia Science - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: S.K.GS:General Science
Standard: S.K.GS.9
Description: make observation to determine the effect of sunlight on Earth's surface
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
Student Objectives
Lesson 126
Demonstrate respect, honor, and obedience to one's country by saying and understanding the Pledge of Allegiance
Identify the kind of clothing worn in the summer
State that July 4 is America's birthday
Identify patriotic items
Use letter-sound association for oa
Read words with the phonograms _oad and _oat
Read the high-frequency words one and two
Write a phrase
Lesson 127
Compare and contrast clothing worn in summer and fall
Complete a creative-writing activity
Use letter-sound association for ow
Identify the semivowel w
Read words with the phonogram _ow
Read two-syllable words
Write a phrase
Lesson 128
Identify Miss Long as the Phonics Character for long words
Identify Miss Long as the Phonics Character for open-syllable patterns
Read words with open syllables
Read words with the phonograms _e, _i, and _o
Use letter-sound association for e, i, and o
Write a sentence
Lesson 129
Compare and contrast clothing worn in the winter and spring
Sort clothing to match the correct season
Complete a sentence about what students like to wear in their favorite season
Use letter-sound association for ie, ue, and ui
Read words with the phonograms _ie, _ue, and _uit
Write h, m,and n
Lesson 130
Explain that God destroyed the world with a flood but saved Noah and his family
Identify important information while reading the text silently
Practice reading several sentences on a page
Lessons
Lesson 126: Dressing for Summer
Lesson 127: Dressing for Fall
Lesson 128: Miss Long All Alone
Lesson 129: Dressing for Winter or Spring
Lesson 130: The Big Boat
Learning Center - Cold or Hot?
Snack of the Week - Celery and Pretzel Butterflies
Show and Tell - Encourage the students to bring their favorite article of clothing and be prepared to tell which season they like to wear it in
Heritage Studies
Summer Time
Language Arts
Phonics and English
Sing the Sounds
Read Word Families
Sound Sense
Teach New Word Families
High-Frequency Words
Guided-Reading: Color Review
Grammar
Compound Words
Syllables
Two-Syllable Words
Phonics
Phonics Practice: At the Sea
Phonics Fun: Fireworks Fun
Phonics Fun: Falling Leaves
Phonics Practice: The Cake
Phonics Fun: Miss Long All Alone
Phonics Fun: Snowballs
Activities
Tic-Tac-Toe
I'm Thinking of Something Cold
Sentence Roundup
Arts and Crafts
Firecracker
Sponge-Painted Apple
Cotton Ball Snowman
Igloo
Motor Skills
Soccer Ball Kick
Snowball Drop
Polar Bear, Polar Bear, Penguin
A Rainy Day
Ten Little Raindrops
Science
Miss Long
Winter and Spring
Write Now!
Write Now! pages 129-138
Sing a Song
Hats Off!
Miss Long All Alone
The Penguin
My Kite
Biblical Integration Concepts
God is great, and God is good
God created me and all things
The Bible is God's Word, and it is true
I learn in order to serve God and others
Biblical Integration Strategies
Discuss how God made the four different seasons
Choose some of the verses about the Flood from Genesis 6:1-9:17 to read to the students; read the verses about the rainbow being God's promise not to send another worldwide flood; emphasize that the Bible is true because God wrote it
Integrate Christian content to cultivate a Christian worldview
Have students sing a phonics song as they learn each new letter-sound association
Utilize colorful pictures to reinforce each letter and sound
Games, motor activities, and arts and crafts involve students as they practice and review sounds and words
Use Unit 7 lessons where appropriate
Have students listen to reading aloud and ask comprehension questions
Use phonics stories to practice for new skills and foster comprehension
Unit 5: Blue Skies and Gray / Week 27: Animals Through the Seasons
(updated 12/28/23)
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.ELF:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Early Learning Foundations
Performance Standard: ELA.K.ELF.A:Fluency
Standard: ELA.K.I
Description: Read emergent-reader texts with purpose and understanding.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.ELF:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Early Learning Foundations
Performance Standard: ELA.K.ELF.B:Phonics and Word Recognition
Standard: ELA.K.II
Description: Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words. •Demonstrate basic knowledge of one-to-one letter-sound correspondences by producing the primary or many of the most frequent sound for each consonant. •Associate the long and short sounds with common spellings (graphemes) for the five major vowels. •Read common high-frequency words by sight (e.g., the, of, to, you, she, my, is, are, do, does). •Distinguish between similarly spelled words by identifying the sounds of the letters that differ.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.ELF:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Early Learning Foundations
Performance Standard: ELA.K.ELF.C:Handwriting
Standard: ELA.K.III
Description: Print upper- and lowercase letters
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.ELF:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Early Learning Foundations
Description: Demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds (phonemes). •Recognize and produce rhyming words. •Count, pronounce, blend, and segment syllables in spoken words. •Blend and segment onsets and rimes of single-syllable spoken words. •Isolate and pronounce the initial, medial vowel, and final sounds (phonemes) in three-phoneme (consonant-vowel-consonant, or CVC) words. (This does not include CVCs ending with /l/, /r/, or /x/.) •Add or substitute individual sounds (phonemes) in simple, one-syllable words to make new words.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.ELF:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Early Learning Foundations
Performance Standard: ELA.K.ELF.E:Print concepts
Standard: ELA.K.V
Description: Demonstrate understanding of the organization and basic features of print. •Follow words from left to right, top to bottom, and page by page. •Recognize that spoken words are represented in written language by specific sequences of letters. •Understand that words are separated by spaces in print. •Recognize and name all upper- and lowercase letters of the alphabet.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.A:Key Ideas and Details
Standard: ELA.K.1
Description: With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.A:Key Ideas and Details
Standard: ELA.K.2
Description: With prompting and support, retell familiar stories, including key details.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.A:Key Ideas and Details
Standard: ELA.K.3
Description: With prompting and support, identify characters, settings, and major events in a story.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.A:Key Ideas and Details
Standard: ELA.K.4
Description: With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.A:Key Ideas and Details
Standard: ELA.K.5
Description: With prompting and support, identify the main topic and retell key details of a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.B:Craft and Structure
Standard: ELA.K.7
Description: With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about unknown words in a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.B:Craft and Structure
Standard: ELA.K.9
Description: With prompting and support, name the author and illustrator of a story and define the role of each in telling the story.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.B:Craft and Structure
Standard: ELA.K.10
Description: With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about unknown words in a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.B:Craft and Structure
Standard: ELA.K.12
Description: With prompting and support, name the author and illustrator of a text and define the role of each in presenting the ideas or information in a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.C:Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.13
Description: With prompting and support, describe the relationship between illustrations and the story in which they appear (e.g., what moment in a story an illustration depicts).
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.D:Range of Reading and Text Complexity
Standard: ELA.K.18
Description: Actively engage in group reading activities with purpose and understanding.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.D:Range of Reading and Text Complexity
Standard: ELA.K.19
Description: Actively engage in group reading activities with purpose and understanding.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.RW:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Speaking and Listening
Performance Standard: ELA.K.RW.A:Comprehension and Collaboration
Standard: ELA.K.30
Description: Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about kindergarten topics and texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups. •Follow agreed-upon rules for discussions (e.g., listening to others and taking turns speaking about the topics and texts under discussion). •Continue a conversation through multiple exchanges.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.RW:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Speaking and Listening
Performance Standard: ELA.K.RW.A:Comprehension and Collaboration
Standard: ELA.K.31
Description: Confirm understanding of a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media by asking and answering questions about key details and requesting clarification if something is not understood.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.RW:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Speaking and Listening
Performance Standard: ELA.K.RW.A:Comprehension and Collaboration
Standard: ELA.K.32
Description: Ask and answer questions in order to seek help, get information, or clarify something that is not understood.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.RW:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Speaking and Listening
Performance Standard: ELA.K.RW.B:Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.33
Description: Describe familiar people, places, things, and events and, with prompting and support, provide additional detail.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.RW:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Speaking and Listening
Performance Standard: ELA.K.RW.B:Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.34
Description: Add drawings or other visual displays to descriptions as desired to provide additional detail.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.RW:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Speaking and Listening
Performance Standard: ELA.K.RW.B:Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.35
Description: Speak audibly and express thoughts, feelings, and ideas clearly.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.L:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Language
Performance Standard: ELA.K.L.A:Conventions of Standard English
Standard: ELA.K.36
Description: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking. •Print many upper- and lowercase letters. •Use frequently occurring nouns and verbs. •Form regular plural nouns orally by adding /s/ or /es/ (e.g., dog, dogs; wish, wishes). •Understand and use question words (interrogatives) (e.g., who, what, where, when, why, how). •Use the most frequently occurring prepositions (e.g., to, from, in, out, on, off, for, of, by, with). •Produce and expand complete sentences in shared language activities.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.L:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Language
Performance Standard: ELA.K.L.A:Conventions of Standard English
Standard: ELA.K.37
Description: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing. •Capitalize the first word in a sentence and the pronoun I. •Recognize and name end punctuation. •Write a letter or letters for most consonant and short-vowel sounds (phonemes). •Spell simple words phonetically, drawing on knowledge of sound-letter relationships.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.L:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Language
Performance Standard: ELA.K.L.C:Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
Standard: ELA.K.39
Description: Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on kindergarten reading and content. •Identify new meanings for familiar words and apply them accurately (e.g., knowing duck is a bird and learning the verb to duck). •Introduce the most frequently occurring inflections and affixes (e.g., -ed, -s, re-, un-, pre-, -ful, -less) as a clue to the meaning of an unknown word.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.L:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Language
Performance Standard: ELA.K.L.C:Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
Standard: ELA.K.41
Description: Use words and phrases acquired through conversations, reading and being read to, and responding to texts.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: Science
Strand: S.K:West Virginia Science - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: S.K.GS:General Science
Standard: S.K.GS.3
Description: use observations to describe patterns of what plants and animals (including humans) need to survive
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Science
Strand: S.K:West Virginia Science - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: S.K.GS:General Science
Standard: S.K.GS.4
Description: construct an argument supported by evidence for how plans and animals (including humans) can change the environment to meet their needs
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Science
Strand: S.K:West Virginia Science - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: S.K.GS:General Science
Standard: S.K.GS.5
Description: use a model to represent the relationship between the needs of different plants or animals (including humans) and the places they live
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Social Studies
Strand: SS.K:West Virginia Social Studies - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: C.SS.K:Civics
Standard: SS.K.1
Description: Develop an understanding of citizenship and patriotism through a variety of experiences (e.g., appropriate behavior, sharing, taking turns, volunteering, being honest and demonstrating responsibility for materials and personal belongings).
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Social Studies
Strand: SS.K:West Virginia Social Studies - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: C.SS.K:Civics
Standard: SS.K.2
Description: Participate in role play to resolve disputes, and demonstrate tolerance and acceptance of others and their ideas.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Social Studies
Strand: SS.K:West Virginia Social Studies - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: C.SS.K:Civics
Standard: SS.K.3
Description: Investigate the need for rules in their environment, create a set of classroom rules, and explore the consequences for not following the rules.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Social Studies
Strand: SS.K:West Virginia Social Studies - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: C.SS.K:Civics
Standard: SS.K.4
Description: Investigate the leadership roles within their families, classrooms and schools and demonstrate their understanding through activities such as role play and classroom jobs.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
Student Objectives
Lesson 131
Recognize that God provides what animals need to live
Summarize what animals do in the spring
Identify rhyming text
Identify the semivowel y
Use letter-sound association for y (i)
Read words with the phonogram _y
Read the high-frequency word orange
Write a sentence
Lesson 132
Summarize that animal babies are born in the spring and summer
Match pictures of baby animals to their mothers
Dictate or write a caption for an original drawing
Use letter-sound association for y (e) in an unstressed second syllable
Read two-syllable words that end in y
Write a phrase
Lesson 133
State that migration, storing food, and growing fur are all ways animals adapt to cold weather
use letter-sound association for igh
Read words with the phonogram _ight
Write a phrase
Lesson 134
Define hibernation and adaptation
Identify other ways animals prepare in the fall for cold weather
Dictate or write what one animal does to survive the winter
Identify the five vowels and the two semi-vowels
Review letter-sound association for long vowels
Read words with long vowels
Write v, x, and z
Lesson 135
Choose the correct clothing for different types of weather
Interpret clues in a picture to determine the season
Practice reading words with long vowels
Read words with two syllables
Lessons
Lesson 131: Animals in the Spring
Lesson 132: Animals in the Summer
Lesson 133: Animals in the Fall
Lesson 134: Animals in the Winter
Lesson 135: The Best Day
Learning Center - Falling Snowflakes
Snack of the Week - Penguins
Show and Tell - Encourage each student to choose a toy animal and find out from his parents what the animal would do in the different seasons
Science
Animals in the Spring
Animals in Winter
Heart Rate
Language Arts
Sing the Sounds
Hear the Sounds
Read Word Families
High-Frequency Words
Handwriting
Grammar
Compound Words
Phonics
Phonics Practice: My Dad
Phonics Fun: Miss Long's Flowers
Phonics Fun: Filling the Nest
Phonics Practice: Flash
Phonics Fun: Gathering Nuts
Phonics Fun: Hidden Peanuts
Activities
Tic-Tac-Toe
Science
Nest Materials
Baby Animals
A Chrysalis
Animals in the Fall
Video of animals preparing for winter
Bird Feeder
Arts and Crafts
Caterpillar
Fall Scene
Bear Den
Favorite Animals
Sing a Song
God's Four Seasons
Nests
Itsy Bitsy Spider
The Penguin
Motor Skills
Under the Umbrella
Summer Animals
Acorn, Acorn, Squirrel
Wake Up, Bear
Animals in Winter
Write Now!
Write Now! pp. 134-138
Biblical Integration Concepts
God is great, and God is good
God created me and all things
The Bible is God's Word, and it is true
I learn in order to serve God and others
Biblical Integration Strategies
Discuss the story of the three talents
Read Genesis 1:14; remind the students that God created the sun and moon and that from the very beginning we have identified seasons and kept time using the heavenly lights
Utilize visual aids - posters, puppets, clothing - to reinforce the lesson
Have students participate in songs
Pay special attention to the Phonic Characters - encourage familiarity
Use phonics charts to reinforce letter sounds
Guide discussions to compare and contrast topics
Guide discussions surrounding how God made the world
Utilize worktext and phonics pages
Help students arrange their lips/tongue when creating the sounds of various letters
Students should daily practice working with word families
Allow time for students to participate in various Learning Centers, including the Center for the week
Utilize songs to reinforce the themes/leaning concepts of the week
Use Visual Aids and Instructional cards
Quarter 4
Unit 6: Garden Paths and Wandering Trails / Week 28: Where Jesus Walked
(updated 1/2/24)
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.ELF:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Early Learning Foundations
Performance Standard: ELA.K.ELF.A:Fluency
Standard: ELA.K.I
Description: Read emergent-reader texts with purpose and understanding.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.ELF:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Early Learning Foundations
Performance Standard: ELA.K.ELF.B:Phonics and Word Recognition
Standard: ELA.K.II
Description: Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words. •Demonstrate basic knowledge of one-to-one letter-sound correspondences by producing the primary or many of the most frequent sound for each consonant. •Associate the long and short sounds with common spellings (graphemes) for the five major vowels. •Read common high-frequency words by sight (e.g., the, of, to, you, she, my, is, are, do, does). •Distinguish between similarly spelled words by identifying the sounds of the letters that differ.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.ELF:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Early Learning Foundations
Performance Standard: ELA.K.ELF.C:Handwriting
Standard: ELA.K.III
Description: Print upper- and lowercase letters
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.ELF:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Early Learning Foundations
Description: Demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds (phonemes). •Recognize and produce rhyming words. •Count, pronounce, blend, and segment syllables in spoken words. •Blend and segment onsets and rimes of single-syllable spoken words. •Isolate and pronounce the initial, medial vowel, and final sounds (phonemes) in three-phoneme (consonant-vowel-consonant, or CVC) words. (This does not include CVCs ending with /l/, /r/, or /x/.) •Add or substitute individual sounds (phonemes) in simple, one-syllable words to make new words.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.ELF:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Early Learning Foundations
Performance Standard: ELA.K.ELF.E:Print concepts
Standard: ELA.K.V
Description: Demonstrate understanding of the organization and basic features of print. •Follow words from left to right, top to bottom, and page by page. •Recognize that spoken words are represented in written language by specific sequences of letters. •Understand that words are separated by spaces in print. •Recognize and name all upper- and lowercase letters of the alphabet.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.A:Key Ideas and Details
Standard: ELA.K.1
Description: With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.A:Key Ideas and Details
Standard: ELA.K.2
Description: With prompting and support, retell familiar stories, including key details.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.A:Key Ideas and Details
Standard: ELA.K.3
Description: With prompting and support, identify characters, settings, and major events in a story.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.A:Key Ideas and Details
Standard: ELA.K.4
Description: With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.A:Key Ideas and Details
Standard: ELA.K.5
Description: With prompting and support, identify the main topic and retell key details of a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.A:Key Ideas and Details
Standard: ELA.K.6
Description: With prompting and support, describe the connection between two individuals, events, ideas, or pieces of information in a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.B:Craft and Structure
Standard: ELA.K.9
Description: With prompting and support, name the author and illustrator of a story and define the role of each in telling the story.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.B:Craft and Structure
Standard: ELA.K.11
Description: With prompting and support, identify the front cover, back cover, and title page of a book.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.B:Craft and Structure
Standard: ELA.K.12
Description: With prompting and support, name the author and illustrator of a text and define the role of each in presenting the ideas or information in a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.C:Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.13
Description: With prompting and support, describe the relationship between illustrations and the story in which they appear (e.g., what moment in a story an illustration depicts).
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.C:Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.14
Description: With prompting and support, compare and contrast the adventures and experiences of characters in familiar stories.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.C:Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.15
Description: With prompting and support, describe the relationship between illustrations and the text in which they appear (e.g., what person, place, thing, or idea in the text an illustration depicts).
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.C:Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.16
Description: With prompting and support, identify the reasons an author gives to support points in a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.C:Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.17
Description: With prompting and support, identify basic similarities in and differences between two texts on the same topic (e.g., in illustrations, descriptions, or procedures).
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.D:Range of Reading and Text Complexity
Standard: ELA.K.18
Description: Actively engage in group reading activities with purpose and understanding.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.D:Range of Reading and Text Complexity
Standard: ELA.K.19
Description: Actively engage in group reading activities with purpose and understanding.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.W:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Writing
Performance Standard: ELA.K.W.C:Research to Build and Present Knowledge
Standard: ELA.K.27
Description: With guidance and support from adults, recall information from experiences or gather information from provided sources to answer a question.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.RW:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Speaking and Listening
Performance Standard: ELA.K.RW.A:Comprehension and Collaboration
Standard: ELA.K.30
Description: Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about kindergarten topics and texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups. •Follow agreed-upon rules for discussions (e.g., listening to others and taking turns speaking about the topics and texts under discussion). •Continue a conversation through multiple exchanges.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.RW:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Speaking and Listening
Performance Standard: ELA.K.RW.A:Comprehension and Collaboration
Standard: ELA.K.31
Description: Confirm understanding of a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media by asking and answering questions about key details and requesting clarification if something is not understood.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.RW:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Speaking and Listening
Performance Standard: ELA.K.RW.A:Comprehension and Collaboration
Standard: ELA.K.32
Description: Ask and answer questions in order to seek help, get information, or clarify something that is not understood.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.RW:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Speaking and Listening
Performance Standard: ELA.K.RW.B:Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.33
Description: Describe familiar people, places, things, and events and, with prompting and support, provide additional detail.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.RW:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Speaking and Listening
Performance Standard: ELA.K.RW.B:Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.34
Description: Add drawings or other visual displays to descriptions as desired to provide additional detail.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.RW:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Speaking and Listening
Performance Standard: ELA.K.RW.B:Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.35
Description: Speak audibly and express thoughts, feelings, and ideas clearly.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.L:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Language
Performance Standard: ELA.K.L.A:Conventions of Standard English
Standard: ELA.K.36
Description: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking. •Print many upper- and lowercase letters. •Use frequently occurring nouns and verbs. •Form regular plural nouns orally by adding /s/ or /es/ (e.g., dog, dogs; wish, wishes). •Understand and use question words (interrogatives) (e.g., who, what, where, when, why, how). •Use the most frequently occurring prepositions (e.g., to, from, in, out, on, off, for, of, by, with). •Produce and expand complete sentences in shared language activities.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.L:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Language
Performance Standard: ELA.K.L.A:Conventions of Standard English
Standard: ELA.K.37
Description: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing. •Capitalize the first word in a sentence and the pronoun I. •Recognize and name end punctuation. •Write a letter or letters for most consonant and short-vowel sounds (phonemes). •Spell simple words phonetically, drawing on knowledge of sound-letter relationships.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: Science
Strand: S.K:West Virginia Science - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: S.K.GS:General Science
Standard: S.K.GS.6
Description: communicate solutions that will reduce the impact of humans on the land, water, air, and/or other living things in the local environment
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Social Studies
Strand: SS.K:West Virginia Social Studies - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: E.SS.K:Economics
Standard: SS.K.6
Description: Discover the basic needs of people (e.g., shelter, food, clothing, etc.) and give examples of each.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Social Studies
Strand: SS.K:West Virginia Social Studies - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: E.SS.K:Economics
Standard: SS.K.7
Description: Investigate the exchange of goods and services (e.g., money, bartering, trading, etc.).
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Social Studies
Strand: SS.K:West Virginia Social Studies - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: H.SS.K:History
Standard: SS.K.16
Description: Investigate the past and explore the differences in other people, times and cultures through stories of people, heroes, pictures, songs, holidays, customs, traditions or legends.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Social Studies
Strand: SS.K:West Virginia Social Studies - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: H.SS.K:History
Standard: SS.K.17
Description: Explore time, places, people and events in relationship to student's own life (e.g., family trees, pictures, stories, etc.).
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
Student Objectives
Lesson 136
Describe the geography and seasons in the Holy Land
Compare worship in Bible times to worship today
Identify Bossy r as the Phonics Character for the r-influenced vowel pattern
Use letter-sound association for ar
Read words with the phonograms _ar, _arn, and _art
Read the high-frequency words Jesus and were
Write a phrase
Lesson 137
Compare and contrast the dwellings in Bible times to modern dwellings
Participate in a shared writing activity
Use letter-sound association for ar
Read words with the phonograms _arf, _ark, and _arch
Write a phrase
Lesson 138
Compare and contrast clothing worn in Bible times to modern clothing
Use letter-sound association for or and ore
Read words with the phonograms _or and _ore
Write a sentence
Lesson 139
Compare and contrast transportation and technology in Bible times to today
Review Bossy r as the Phonics Character for the r-influenced vowel pattern
Use letter-sound association for or
Read words with the phonograms _ord and _orn
Write a sentence
Lesson 140
Predict what the story will be about by discussing the cover illustration
Identify the main characters in the story
Read simple sentences
Interpret supporting details in pictures
Compare and contrast Jesus' life as a child and a child's life today
Lessons
Lesson 136: Road to Jerusalem
Lesson 137: Bible Land Houses
Lesson 138: What Jesus Wore
Lesson 139: Bible Transportation
Lesson 140: Jesus
Learning Center - Reading the Scrolls
Snack of the Week - Bible Snacks
Show and Tell - Encourage the students to bring a favorite Bible storybook or a favorite Bible
Heritage Studies
The Holy Land
Bible Houses
Bible-Time Clothing
Bible Transportation
Language Arts
Phonics and English Skills
Sing the Sounds
Read Word Families
Handwriting
High-Frequency Words
Guided Reading
Two-Syllable Words
Phonics
Phonics Practice: At the Barn
Phonics Fun: Rocky Land
Phonics Fun: Bible Town
Phonics Practice: Mark's Play
Phonics Fun: Walking Home
Phonics Fun: Down the Road
Activities
Bossy r and Vowel Letter a
Tic-Tac-Toe
Sentence Roundup
Write Now!
Write Now pp. 139-143
Arts and Crafts
Make a Brand
My House
Bible Boy or Girl
Special Wheels
Where Jesus Walked
Motor Skills
Roundup
Foot Race
Sing a Song
Bossy r
The Wheels on the Bus
Science
Ramps
Biblical Integration Concepts
God is great, and God is good
God created me and all things
The Bible is God's Word, and it is true
I learn in order to serve God and others
Biblical Integration Strategies
Guide a discussion about the time Jesus lived on earth, using pictures of Bible-time objects and modern-day objects
Sing together some songs about the wonder of God's love and our love for Him
Set up Learning Centers and encourage students to visit daily
Design daily schedule with posted routines
Utilize songs to reinforce letter and word sounds
Incorporate a daily review of word families to help students become confident readers
Apply word study skills to Bible verses
Encourage students to practice reading aloud and to work on oral fluency skills
Post visuals and song charts throughout the classroom
Investigate possible field trips that correspond to theme
Use phonics stories to provide practice for new skills and foster comprehension
Unit 6: Garden Paths and Wandering Trails / Week 29: In the Garden
(updated 1/2/24)
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.ELF:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Early Learning Foundations
Performance Standard: ELA.K.ELF.C:Handwriting
Standard: ELA.K.III
Description: Print upper- and lowercase letters
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.L:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Language
Performance Standard: ELA.K.L.A:Conventions of Standard English
Standard: ELA.K.36
Description: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking. •Print many upper- and lowercase letters. •Use frequently occurring nouns and verbs. •Form regular plural nouns orally by adding /s/ or /es/ (e.g., dog, dogs; wish, wishes). •Understand and use question words (interrogatives) (e.g., who, what, where, when, why, how). •Use the most frequently occurring prepositions (e.g., to, from, in, out, on, off, for, of, by, with). •Produce and expand complete sentences in shared language activities.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.L:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Language
Performance Standard: ELA.K.L.A:Conventions of Standard English
Standard: ELA.K.37
Description: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing. •Capitalize the first word in a sentence and the pronoun I. •Recognize and name end punctuation. •Write a letter or letters for most consonant and short-vowel sounds (phonemes). •Spell simple words phonetically, drawing on knowledge of sound-letter relationships.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.ELF:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Early Learning Foundations
Performance Standard: ELA.K.ELF.A:Fluency
Standard: ELA.K.I
Description: Read emergent-reader texts with purpose and understanding.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.ELF:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Early Learning Foundations
Performance Standard: ELA.K.ELF.B:Phonics and Word Recognition
Standard: ELA.K.II
Description: Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words. •Demonstrate basic knowledge of one-to-one letter-sound correspondences by producing the primary or many of the most frequent sound for each consonant. •Associate the long and short sounds with common spellings (graphemes) for the five major vowels. •Read common high-frequency words by sight (e.g., the, of, to, you, she, my, is, are, do, does). •Distinguish between similarly spelled words by identifying the sounds of the letters that differ.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.ELF:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Early Learning Foundations
Description: Demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds (phonemes). •Recognize and produce rhyming words. •Count, pronounce, blend, and segment syllables in spoken words. •Blend and segment onsets and rimes of single-syllable spoken words. •Isolate and pronounce the initial, medial vowel, and final sounds (phonemes) in three-phoneme (consonant-vowel-consonant, or CVC) words. (This does not include CVCs ending with /l/, /r/, or /x/.) •Add or substitute individual sounds (phonemes) in simple, one-syllable words to make new words.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.ELF:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Early Learning Foundations
Performance Standard: ELA.K.ELF.E:Print concepts
Standard: ELA.K.V
Description: Demonstrate understanding of the organization and basic features of print. •Follow words from left to right, top to bottom, and page by page. •Recognize that spoken words are represented in written language by specific sequences of letters. •Understand that words are separated by spaces in print. •Recognize and name all upper- and lowercase letters of the alphabet.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.A:Key Ideas and Details
Standard: ELA.K.1
Description: With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.A:Key Ideas and Details
Standard: ELA.K.2
Description: With prompting and support, retell familiar stories, including key details.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.A:Key Ideas and Details
Standard: ELA.K.3
Description: With prompting and support, identify characters, settings, and major events in a story.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.A:Key Ideas and Details
Standard: ELA.K.4
Description: With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.A:Key Ideas and Details
Standard: ELA.K.5
Description: With prompting and support, identify the main topic and retell key details of a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.B:Craft and Structure
Standard: ELA.K.9
Description: With prompting and support, name the author and illustrator of a story and define the role of each in telling the story.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.B:Craft and Structure
Standard: ELA.K.10
Description: With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about unknown words in a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.B:Craft and Structure
Standard: ELA.K.11
Description: With prompting and support, identify the front cover, back cover, and title page of a book.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.B:Craft and Structure
Standard: ELA.K.12
Description: With prompting and support, name the author and illustrator of a text and define the role of each in presenting the ideas or information in a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.C:Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.13
Description: With prompting and support, describe the relationship between illustrations and the story in which they appear (e.g., what moment in a story an illustration depicts).
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.C:Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.14
Description: With prompting and support, compare and contrast the adventures and experiences of characters in familiar stories.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.C:Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.16
Description: With prompting and support, identify the reasons an author gives to support points in a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.C:Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.17
Description: With prompting and support, identify basic similarities in and differences between two texts on the same topic (e.g., in illustrations, descriptions, or procedures).
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.D:Range of Reading and Text Complexity
Standard: ELA.K.18
Description: Actively engage in group reading activities with purpose and understanding.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.D:Range of Reading and Text Complexity
Standard: ELA.K.19
Description: Actively engage in group reading activities with purpose and understanding.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.W:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Writing
Performance Standard: ELA.K.W.A:Text Types and Purposes
Standard: ELA.K.20
Description: Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to compose opinion pieces in which they tell a reader the topic or the name of the book they are writing about and state an opinion or preference about the topic or book (e.g., My favorite book is . . .).
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.W:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Writing
Performance Standard: ELA.K.W.A:Text Types and Purposes
Standard: ELA.K.21
Description: Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to compose informative/explanatory texts in which they name what they are writing about and supply some information about the topic.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.W:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Writing
Performance Standard: ELA.K.W.A:Text Types and Purposes
Standard: ELA.K.22
Description: Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to narrate a single event or several loosely linked events, tell about the events in the order in which they occurred, and provide a reaction to what happened.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.W:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Writing
Performance Standard: ELA.K.W.C:Research to Build and Present Knowledge
Standard: ELA.K.27
Description: With guidance and support from adults, recall information from experiences or gather information from provided sources to answer a question.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.RW:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Speaking and Listening
Performance Standard: ELA.K.RW.A:Comprehension and Collaboration
Standard: ELA.K.31
Description: Confirm understanding of a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media by asking and answering questions about key details and requesting clarification if something is not understood.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.RW:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Speaking and Listening
Performance Standard: ELA.K.RW.A:Comprehension and Collaboration
Standard: ELA.K.32
Description: Ask and answer questions in order to seek help, get information, or clarify something that is not understood.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.RW:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Speaking and Listening
Performance Standard: ELA.K.RW.B:Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.33
Description: Describe familiar people, places, things, and events and, with prompting and support, provide additional detail.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.RW:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Speaking and Listening
Performance Standard: ELA.K.RW.B:Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.34
Description: Add drawings or other visual displays to descriptions as desired to provide additional detail.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.RW:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Speaking and Listening
Performance Standard: ELA.K.RW.B:Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.35
Description: Speak audibly and express thoughts, feelings, and ideas clearly.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.L:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Language
Performance Standard: ELA.K.L.C:Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
Standard: ELA.K.39
Description: Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on kindergarten reading and content. •Identify new meanings for familiar words and apply them accurately (e.g., knowing duck is a bird and learning the verb to duck). •Introduce the most frequently occurring inflections and affixes (e.g., -ed, -s, re-, un-, pre-, -ful, -less) as a clue to the meaning of an unknown word.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.L:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Language
Performance Standard: ELA.K.L.C:Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
Standard: ELA.K.41
Description: Use words and phrases acquired through conversations, reading and being read to, and responding to texts.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: Science
Strand: S.K:West Virginia Science - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: S.K.GS:General Science
Standard: S.K.GS.3
Description: use observations to describe patterns of what plants and animals (including humans) need to survive
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Science
Strand: S.K:West Virginia Science - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: S.K.GS:General Science
Standard: S.K.GS.4
Description: construct an argument supported by evidence for how plans and animals (including humans) can change the environment to meet their needs
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Science
Strand: S.K:West Virginia Science - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: S.K.GS:General Science
Standard: S.K.GS.5
Description: use a model to represent the relationship between the needs of different plants or animals (including humans) and the places they live
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Science
Strand: S.K:West Virginia Science - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: S.K.GS:General Science
Standard: S.K.GS.6
Description: communicate solutions that will reduce the impact of humans on the land, water, air, and/or other living things in the local environment
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Science
Strand: S.K:West Virginia Science - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: S.K.GS:General Science
Standard: S.K.GS.9
Description: make observation to determine the effect of sunlight on Earth's surface
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Science
Strand: S.K:West Virginia Science - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: S.K.GS:General Science
Standard: S.K.GS.10
Description: use tools and materials to design and build a structure that will reduce the warming effect of sunlight on an area
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
Student Objectives
Lesson 141
State that plants come from seeds
Match/sort seeds to seed packets
Explain where seeds come from (Genesis 1:11-12)
Use letter-sound association for er
Read words with phonograms _ern and _erse
Read the high-frequency words our and some
Write a sentence
Lesson 142
Identify parts of a plant
Identify some parts of a plant that we eat
Explain the purpose of each part of a plant
Dictate or write sentences for a shared writing activity
Use letter-sound association for ur
Read words with the phonograms _ur, _urn, _urch, and _urse
Compare the different sounds a vowel makes in a short-vowel pattern a long-vowel pattern, and an r-influenced vowel pattern
Identify vowel patterns using the Phonics Characters
Write a sentence
Lesson 143
Compare and contrast types of flowers
Identify vowel patterns using the Phonics Characters
Read words with the phonograms _ir, _ird, _irl, _irt, and _irst
Write a phrase
Lesson 144
Describe the steps of the life cycle of a plant
Write a sentence about the life cycle of a plant
Read words with r-controlled vowels
Identify the question mark as the punctuation for the end of a question
Write a question
Write a question mark
Lesson 145
Identify the main characters in a story
Interpret supporting details in pictures
List the steps of how to plant a garden
Lessons
Lesson 141: Planting Time
Lesson 142: Parts of a Plant
Lesson 143: Flowers
Lesson 144: How Plants Grow
Lesson 145: The Plan
Learning Center - Pretty Petals
Snack of the Week - Garden Patch
Show and Tell - Encourage each student to bring a favorite vegetable
Arts and Crafts
Seed Mosaic
Craft Stick Flowers
Garden Stone
Flower Jars for Mom
Language Arts
Phonics and English Skills
Sing Sounds
Read Word Families
Teach New Word Families
High Frequency Words
Handwriting
Grammar
Question Mark
Guided Reading
Two-Syllable Words
Phonics
Phonics Practice: The Fern
Phonics Fun: Seeds to Grow
Phonics Fun: Munching Carrots
Phonics Practice: The Skirt
Phonics Fun: Flower Power
Phonics Fun: Picking Flowers
Activities
Bossy r and Vowel Letters e, i, u
Sentence Roundup
Tic-Tac-Toe
Write Now!
Write Now pp. 144-48
Motor Skills
Examining Seeds
I'm a Flower
This Is the Way
Science
Plant a seed
Vegetables
How Plants Get Water
Introduce Gardening
Flowers
Growing Sunflower Sprouts
Plants
Sing a Song
Grow Little Seed
Read Your Bible, Pray Every Day; talk about what we need to do in order to grow in God's family
Grow Little Seed
Biblical Integration Concepts
God is great, and God is good
God created me and all things
The Bible is God's Word, and it is true
I learn in order to serve God and others
Biblical Integration Strategies
Read aloud Genesis 1:11-12 and talk about where plants come from
Tell the story about the seeds (Matthew 13:1-23; Mark 4:1-20; Luke 8:4-15)
Have students discuss the comprehension questions after the Learning story to help develop higher-order thinking skills
Encourage daily practice of Word Family Cards
Incorporate Unit 7 lessons when appropriate
Have students sing a phonics song as they learn each new letter-sound association
Use colorful pictures to reinforce each letter and sound
Present letter formation with the name and sound to reinforce visual member
Incorporate games and motor activities to involve students in practicing review sounds and words
Have students practice Word Families (both oral and written) to aid in mastery
Unit 6: Garden Paths and Wandering Trails / Week 30: Yesterday's Trails
(updated 1/2/24)
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.ELF:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Early Learning Foundations
Performance Standard: ELA.K.ELF.C:Handwriting
Standard: ELA.K.III
Description: Print upper- and lowercase letters
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.ELF:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Early Learning Foundations
Description: Demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds (phonemes). •Recognize and produce rhyming words. •Count, pronounce, blend, and segment syllables in spoken words. •Blend and segment onsets and rimes of single-syllable spoken words. •Isolate and pronounce the initial, medial vowel, and final sounds (phonemes) in three-phoneme (consonant-vowel-consonant, or CVC) words. (This does not include CVCs ending with /l/, /r/, or /x/.) •Add or substitute individual sounds (phonemes) in simple, one-syllable words to make new words.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.ELF:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Early Learning Foundations
Performance Standard: ELA.K.ELF.E:Print concepts
Standard: ELA.K.V
Description: Demonstrate understanding of the organization and basic features of print. •Follow words from left to right, top to bottom, and page by page. •Recognize that spoken words are represented in written language by specific sequences of letters. •Understand that words are separated by spaces in print. •Recognize and name all upper- and lowercase letters of the alphabet.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.A:Key Ideas and Details
Standard: ELA.K.1
Description: With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.A:Key Ideas and Details
Standard: ELA.K.3
Description: With prompting and support, identify characters, settings, and major events in a story.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.ELF:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Early Learning Foundations
Performance Standard: ELA.K.ELF.A:Fluency
Standard: ELA.K.I
Description: Read emergent-reader texts with purpose and understanding.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.ELF:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Early Learning Foundations
Performance Standard: ELA.K.ELF.B:Phonics and Word Recognition
Standard: ELA.K.II
Description: Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words. •Demonstrate basic knowledge of one-to-one letter-sound correspondences by producing the primary or many of the most frequent sound for each consonant. •Associate the long and short sounds with common spellings (graphemes) for the five major vowels. •Read common high-frequency words by sight (e.g., the, of, to, you, she, my, is, are, do, does). •Distinguish between similarly spelled words by identifying the sounds of the letters that differ.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.A:Key Ideas and Details
Standard: ELA.K.2
Description: With prompting and support, retell familiar stories, including key details.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.A:Key Ideas and Details
Standard: ELA.K.6
Description: With prompting and support, describe the connection between two individuals, events, ideas, or pieces of information in a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.B:Craft and Structure
Standard: ELA.K.9
Description: With prompting and support, name the author and illustrator of a story and define the role of each in telling the story.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.B:Craft and Structure
Standard: ELA.K.11
Description: With prompting and support, identify the front cover, back cover, and title page of a book.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.B:Craft and Structure
Standard: ELA.K.12
Description: With prompting and support, name the author and illustrator of a text and define the role of each in presenting the ideas or information in a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.C:Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.13
Description: With prompting and support, describe the relationship between illustrations and the story in which they appear (e.g., what moment in a story an illustration depicts).
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.C:Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.14
Description: With prompting and support, compare and contrast the adventures and experiences of characters in familiar stories.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.C:Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.15
Description: With prompting and support, describe the relationship between illustrations and the text in which they appear (e.g., what person, place, thing, or idea in the text an illustration depicts).
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.D:Range of Reading and Text Complexity
Standard: ELA.K.18
Description: Actively engage in group reading activities with purpose and understanding.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.D:Range of Reading and Text Complexity
Standard: ELA.K.19
Description: Actively engage in group reading activities with purpose and understanding.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.W:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Writing
Performance Standard: ELA.K.W.B:Production and Distribution of Writing
Standard: ELA.K.24
Description: With guidance and support from adults, respond to questions and suggestions from peers and add details to strengthen writing as needed.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.W:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Writing
Performance Standard: ELA.K.W.C:Research to Build and Present Knowledge
Standard: ELA.K.27
Description: With guidance and support from adults, recall information from experiences or gather information from provided sources to answer a question.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.RW:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Speaking and Listening
Performance Standard: ELA.K.RW.A:Comprehension and Collaboration
Standard: ELA.K.30
Description: Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about kindergarten topics and texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups. •Follow agreed-upon rules for discussions (e.g., listening to others and taking turns speaking about the topics and texts under discussion). •Continue a conversation through multiple exchanges.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.RW:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Speaking and Listening
Performance Standard: ELA.K.RW.A:Comprehension and Collaboration
Standard: ELA.K.31
Description: Confirm understanding of a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media by asking and answering questions about key details and requesting clarification if something is not understood.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.RW:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Speaking and Listening
Performance Standard: ELA.K.RW.A:Comprehension and Collaboration
Standard: ELA.K.32
Description: Ask and answer questions in order to seek help, get information, or clarify something that is not understood.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.RW:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Speaking and Listening
Performance Standard: ELA.K.RW.B:Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.33
Description: Describe familiar people, places, things, and events and, with prompting and support, provide additional detail.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.RW:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Speaking and Listening
Performance Standard: ELA.K.RW.B:Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.35
Description: Speak audibly and express thoughts, feelings, and ideas clearly.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.L:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Language
Performance Standard: ELA.K.L.A:Conventions of Standard English
Standard: ELA.K.36
Description: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking. •Print many upper- and lowercase letters. •Use frequently occurring nouns and verbs. •Form regular plural nouns orally by adding /s/ or /es/ (e.g., dog, dogs; wish, wishes). •Understand and use question words (interrogatives) (e.g., who, what, where, when, why, how). •Use the most frequently occurring prepositions (e.g., to, from, in, out, on, off, for, of, by, with). •Produce and expand complete sentences in shared language activities.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.L:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Language
Performance Standard: ELA.K.L.A:Conventions of Standard English
Standard: ELA.K.37
Description: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing. •Capitalize the first word in a sentence and the pronoun I. •Recognize and name end punctuation. •Write a letter or letters for most consonant and short-vowel sounds (phonemes). •Spell simple words phonetically, drawing on knowledge of sound-letter relationships.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.L:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Language
Performance Standard: ELA.K.L.C:Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
Standard: ELA.K.39
Description: Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on kindergarten reading and content. •Identify new meanings for familiar words and apply them accurately (e.g., knowing duck is a bird and learning the verb to duck). •Introduce the most frequently occurring inflections and affixes (e.g., -ed, -s, re-, un-, pre-, -ful, -less) as a clue to the meaning of an unknown word.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.L:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Language
Performance Standard: ELA.K.L.C:Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
Standard: ELA.K.40
Description: With guidance and support from adults, explore word relationships and nuances in word meanings. •Sort common objects into categories (e.g., shapes, foods) to gain a sense of the concepts the categories represent. •Demonstrate understanding of frequently occurring verbs and adjectives by relating them to their opposites (antonyms). •Identify real-life connections between words and their use (e.g., note places at school that are colorful). •Distinguish shades of meaning among verbs describing the same general action (e.g., walk, march, strut, prance) by acting out the meanings.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.L:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Language
Performance Standard: ELA.K.L.C:Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
Standard: ELA.K.41
Description: Use words and phrases acquired through conversations, reading and being read to, and responding to texts.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: Social Studies
Strand: SS.K:West Virginia Social Studies - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: C.SS.K:Civics
Standard: SS.K.1
Description: Develop an understanding of citizenship and patriotism through a variety of experiences (e.g., appropriate behavior, sharing, taking turns, volunteering, being honest and demonstrating responsibility for materials and personal belongings).
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Social Studies
Strand: SS.K:West Virginia Social Studies - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: C.SS.K:Civics
Standard: SS.K.2
Description: Participate in role play to resolve disputes, and demonstrate tolerance and acceptance of others and their ideas.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Social Studies
Strand: SS.K:West Virginia Social Studies - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: C.SS.K:Civics
Standard: SS.K.3
Description: Investigate the need for rules in their environment, create a set of classroom rules, and explore the consequences for not following the rules.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Social Studies
Strand: SS.K:West Virginia Social Studies - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: C.SS.K:Civics
Standard: SS.K.4
Description: Investigate the leadership roles within their families, classrooms and schools and demonstrate their understanding through activities such as role play and classroom jobs.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Social Studies
Strand: SS.K:West Virginia Social Studies - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: E.SS.K:Economics
Standard: SS.K.5
Description: Investigate occupations within the school and local community.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Social Studies
Strand: SS.K:West Virginia Social Studies - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: G.SS.K:Geography
Standard: SS.K.9
Description: Construct a simple map of a familiar area (e.g., classroom, school, home, etc.).
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Social Studies
Strand: SS.K:West Virginia Social Studies - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: G.SS.K:Geography
Standard: SS.K.10
Description: Identify the difference between bodies of water and land masses on maps and globes, and demonstrate directions (e.g., left/right, up/down, near/far and above/under).
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Social Studies
Strand: SS.K:West Virginia Social Studies - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: G.SS.K:Geography
Standard: SS.K.11
Description: Compare and contrast the ways humans adapt based on seasons and weather.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Social Studies
Strand: SS.K:West Virginia Social Studies - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: H.SS.K:History
Standard: SS.K.16
Description: Investigate the past and explore the differences in other people, times and cultures through stories of people, heroes, pictures, songs, holidays, customs, traditions or legends.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
Student Objectives
Lesson 146
Compare and contrast the world before Columbus's discovery to how the world is today
Identify Christopher Columbus as the discoverer of America
Locate America on a globe
Affirm that God used the voyage of Columbus to change the world
Use letter-sound association for oo
Read words with the phonograms _oo, _ood, _ool, _oom, and _oon
Read the high-frequency word from
Write a phrase
Lesson 147
Name the colors in the American flag
Explain what the colors, stripes, and stars on the American flag represent
Demonstrate flag etiquette
Identify the flag as a symbol of the United States
Define liberty from a Christian perspective
Use letter-sound association for oo
Read words with the phonograms _ood, _ook, and _oot
Write a sentence
Lesson 148
Identify the White House as the home of the president of the United States and his family
Identify the location of the White House
Use letter-sound association for ow
Read words with the phonograms _ow and _own
Write a phrase
Lesson 149
Identify and describe symbols of the American idea of liberty
Use letter-sound association for ou
Read words with the phonograms _out and _ound
Write a sentence
Lesson 150
Identify the main characters in a story
Interpret supporting details in pictures
Read to gain a knowledge of Bible times and places
Compare how God cared for Elijah and how God cares for us
Lessons
Lesson 146: A New Land
Lesson 147: Our Flag
Lesson 148: The White House
Lesson 149: Symbols of Liberty
Lesson 150: God's Man
Learning Center - Stars from Our Flag
Snack of the Week - Flag Cake
Show and Tell - Encourage the students to bring something that is red, white, and blue
Heritage Studies
Christopher Columbus
Flags
White House
Liberty
Language Arts
Phonics and English Skills
Sing the Sounds
Hear the Sound
Read Word Families
High Frequency Words
Grammar
Two-Syllable Words
Phonics
Phonics Practice: Cool Deck
Phonics Fun: Favorite Ship
Phonics Fun: Marching Band
Phonics Practice: A Fish
Phonics Fun: Our Houses
Phonics Fun: Statue of Liberty Tour
Activity
Words in a Bag
Alphabetical order
Science
Boat Race
Fizzy Flag
Write Now!
Write Now pp. 149-153
Arts and Crafts
A Sailboat
Patriotic Picture
White House Bedroom
Patriotic Symbols
Bald Eagle
Motor Skills
When I Grow Up
March
Bobbling Balloons
Keeping Time
Sing a Song
Row, Row, Row Your Boat
Sing a Song
My Country 'Tis of Thee
Biblical Integration Concepts
God is great, and God is good
God created me and all things
The Bible is God's Word, and it is true
I learn in order to serve God and others
Biblical Integration Strategies
Tell the story of Paul and Barnabas, who sailed in a big ship to tell others the story of Jesus (Acts 13:1-4)
Share the story of the great woman of Shaunem (II Kings 4:8-37); Elisha was often a guest at her house; she had a room built for him there, and the Lord blessed her for caring for His servant
Post Biblical Worldview Theme visual to reinforce themes throughout the year
Use composition activities to promote the reading/writing connection
When instructing handwriting focus on the process as much as the product
Always include tracing before writing to foster success in the young student
Have students write new endings to familiar stories, make lists, and add labels to pictures to help develop a love of writing
Include dictation of a class story
Encourage independent writing
Use Phonics stories to practice for new skills and foster comprehension
Read to students aloud daily 15-20 minutes
Unit 6: Garden Paths and Wandering Trails / Week 31: Desert Paths
(updated 1/2/24)
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Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.ELF:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Early Learning Foundations
Performance Standard: ELA.K.ELF.B:Phonics and Word Recognition
Standard: ELA.K.II
Description: Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words. •Demonstrate basic knowledge of one-to-one letter-sound correspondences by producing the primary or many of the most frequent sound for each consonant. •Associate the long and short sounds with common spellings (graphemes) for the five major vowels. •Read common high-frequency words by sight (e.g., the, of, to, you, she, my, is, are, do, does). •Distinguish between similarly spelled words by identifying the sounds of the letters that differ.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.ELF:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Early Learning Foundations
Performance Standard: ELA.K.ELF.C:Handwriting
Standard: ELA.K.III
Description: Print upper- and lowercase letters
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.ELF:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Early Learning Foundations
Description: Demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds (phonemes). •Recognize and produce rhyming words. •Count, pronounce, blend, and segment syllables in spoken words. •Blend and segment onsets and rimes of single-syllable spoken words. •Isolate and pronounce the initial, medial vowel, and final sounds (phonemes) in three-phoneme (consonant-vowel-consonant, or CVC) words. (This does not include CVCs ending with /l/, /r/, or /x/.) •Add or substitute individual sounds (phonemes) in simple, one-syllable words to make new words.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.ELF:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Early Learning Foundations
Performance Standard: ELA.K.ELF.E:Print concepts
Standard: ELA.K.V
Description: Demonstrate understanding of the organization and basic features of print. •Follow words from left to right, top to bottom, and page by page. •Recognize that spoken words are represented in written language by specific sequences of letters. •Understand that words are separated by spaces in print. •Recognize and name all upper- and lowercase letters of the alphabet.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.B:Craft and Structure
Standard: ELA.K.7
Description: With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about unknown words in a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.B:Craft and Structure
Standard: ELA.K.8
Description: With prompting and support, recognize common types of texts (e.g., storybooks, poems).
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.B:Craft and Structure
Standard: ELA.K.9
Description: With prompting and support, name the author and illustrator of a story and define the role of each in telling the story.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.D:Range of Reading and Text Complexity
Standard: ELA.K.19
Description: Actively engage in group reading activities with purpose and understanding.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.ELF:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Early Learning Foundations
Performance Standard: ELA.K.ELF.A:Fluency
Standard: ELA.K.I
Description: Read emergent-reader texts with purpose and understanding.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.A:Key Ideas and Details
Standard: ELA.K.1
Description: With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.A:Key Ideas and Details
Standard: ELA.K.2
Description: With prompting and support, retell familiar stories, including key details.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.A:Key Ideas and Details
Standard: ELA.K.3
Description: With prompting and support, identify characters, settings, and major events in a story.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.A:Key Ideas and Details
Standard: ELA.K.4
Description: With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.A:Key Ideas and Details
Standard: ELA.K.5
Description: With prompting and support, identify the main topic and retell key details of a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.A:Key Ideas and Details
Standard: ELA.K.6
Description: With prompting and support, describe the connection between two individuals, events, ideas, or pieces of information in a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.B:Craft and Structure
Standard: ELA.K.10
Description: With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about unknown words in a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.B:Craft and Structure
Standard: ELA.K.11
Description: With prompting and support, identify the front cover, back cover, and title page of a book.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.B:Craft and Structure
Standard: ELA.K.12
Description: With prompting and support, name the author and illustrator of a text and define the role of each in presenting the ideas or information in a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.C:Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.13
Description: With prompting and support, describe the relationship between illustrations and the story in which they appear (e.g., what moment in a story an illustration depicts).
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.C:Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.14
Description: With prompting and support, compare and contrast the adventures and experiences of characters in familiar stories.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.C:Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.15
Description: With prompting and support, describe the relationship between illustrations and the text in which they appear (e.g., what person, place, thing, or idea in the text an illustration depicts).
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.C:Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.16
Description: With prompting and support, identify the reasons an author gives to support points in a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.C:Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.17
Description: With prompting and support, identify basic similarities in and differences between two texts on the same topic (e.g., in illustrations, descriptions, or procedures).
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.D:Range of Reading and Text Complexity
Standard: ELA.K.18
Description: Actively engage in group reading activities with purpose and understanding.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.W:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Writing
Performance Standard: ELA.K.W.A:Text Types and Purposes
Standard: ELA.K.21
Description: Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to compose informative/explanatory texts in which they name what they are writing about and supply some information about the topic.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.W:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Writing
Performance Standard: ELA.K.W.B:Production and Distribution of Writing
Standard: ELA.K.24
Description: With guidance and support from adults, respond to questions and suggestions from peers and add details to strengthen writing as needed.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.W:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Writing
Performance Standard: ELA.K.W.C:Research to Build and Present Knowledge
Standard: ELA.K.27
Description: With guidance and support from adults, recall information from experiences or gather information from provided sources to answer a question.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.RW:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Speaking and Listening
Performance Standard: ELA.K.RW.A:Comprehension and Collaboration
Standard: ELA.K.30
Description: Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about kindergarten topics and texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups. •Follow agreed-upon rules for discussions (e.g., listening to others and taking turns speaking about the topics and texts under discussion). •Continue a conversation through multiple exchanges.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.RW:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Speaking and Listening
Performance Standard: ELA.K.RW.A:Comprehension and Collaboration
Standard: ELA.K.31
Description: Confirm understanding of a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media by asking and answering questions about key details and requesting clarification if something is not understood.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.RW:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Speaking and Listening
Performance Standard: ELA.K.RW.A:Comprehension and Collaboration
Standard: ELA.K.32
Description: Ask and answer questions in order to seek help, get information, or clarify something that is not understood.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.RW:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Speaking and Listening
Performance Standard: ELA.K.RW.B:Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.33
Description: Describe familiar people, places, things, and events and, with prompting and support, provide additional detail.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.RW:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Speaking and Listening
Performance Standard: ELA.K.RW.B:Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.34
Description: Add drawings or other visual displays to descriptions as desired to provide additional detail.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.RW:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Speaking and Listening
Performance Standard: ELA.K.RW.B:Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.35
Description: Speak audibly and express thoughts, feelings, and ideas clearly.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.L:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Language
Performance Standard: ELA.K.L.A:Conventions of Standard English
Standard: ELA.K.36
Description: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking. •Print many upper- and lowercase letters. •Use frequently occurring nouns and verbs. •Form regular plural nouns orally by adding /s/ or /es/ (e.g., dog, dogs; wish, wishes). •Understand and use question words (interrogatives) (e.g., who, what, where, when, why, how). •Use the most frequently occurring prepositions (e.g., to, from, in, out, on, off, for, of, by, with). •Produce and expand complete sentences in shared language activities.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.L:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Language
Performance Standard: ELA.K.L.A:Conventions of Standard English
Standard: ELA.K.37
Description: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing. •Capitalize the first word in a sentence and the pronoun I. •Recognize and name end punctuation. •Write a letter or letters for most consonant and short-vowel sounds (phonemes). •Spell simple words phonetically, drawing on knowledge of sound-letter relationships.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: Science
Strand: S.K:West Virginia Science - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: S.K.GS:General Science
Standard: S.K.GS.3
Description: use observations to describe patterns of what plants and animals (including humans) need to survive
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Science
Strand: S.K:West Virginia Science - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: S.K.GS:General Science
Standard: S.K.GS.4
Description: construct an argument supported by evidence for how plans and animals (including humans) can change the environment to meet their needs
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Science
Strand: S.K:West Virginia Science - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: S.K.GS:General Science
Standard: S.K.GS.5
Description: use a model to represent the relationship between the needs of different plants or animals (including humans) and the places they live
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Science
Strand: S.K:West Virginia Science - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: S.K.GS:General Science
Standard: S.K.GS.6
Description: communicate solutions that will reduce the impact of humans on the land, water, air, and/or other living things in the local environment
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Science
Strand: S.K:West Virginia Science - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: S.K.GS:General Science
Standard: S.K.GS.9
Description: make observation to determine the effect of sunlight on Earth's surface
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Social Studies
Strand: SS.K:West Virginia Social Studies - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: G.SS.K:Geography
Standard: SS.K.11
Description: Compare and contrast the ways humans adapt based on seasons and weather.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
Student Objectives
Lesson 151
Identify some animals and plants commonly found in the desert
Compare a desert with where the student lives
Infer that God gave desert animals the ability to adapt to desert conditions
Use letter-sound association for oi and oy
Read words with the phonograms _oil and _oy
Read the high-frequency word who
Write a phrase
Lesson 152
Explain how God created the saguaro cactus to hold water in extreme temperatures
Participate in a shared writing activity
Use letter-sound association for au and aw
Read words with the phonograms _aul, _aw, and _awn
Write a phrase
Lesson 153
Identify the coyote as being able to adapt to desert conditions
Explain how cattle ranching can exist in the desert
Use letter-sound association for a (l)
Read words with the phonogram _all
Write a question mark
Write a sentence
Lesson 154
Identify the camel as an animal that is found in the desert
Explain that God created camels uniquely so they can live in a desert environment
Explain how the camel is used in the desert
Review letter-sound association for r-controlled vowels and special vowel pairs
Read words with r-controlled vowels and special vowel pairs
Practice all high-frequency words
Write a phrase
Lesson 155
Infer the plot of the story by the pictures
Read simple sentences
Predict the outcome of the story
Identify key details in a text
Lessons
Lesson 151: The Desert
Lesson 152: Saguaro Cactus
Lesson 153: Desert Animals
Lesson 154: Camels
Lesson 155: Too Small
Learning Center - Missing Letters
Snack of the Week - Crunchy Cactuses
Show and Tell - Encourage the students to bring a desert picture
Science
Deserts
The Cactus
Plant a Cactus
Animals in the Desert
Camels
Language Arts
Phonics and English Skills
Sing the Sounds
Read Word Families
High-Frequency Words
Handwriting
Vocabulary
Grammar
Review Possessive s
Phonics
Phonics Practice: The Dog
Phonics Fun: Fill the Families
Phonics Fun: Prickly Cactus
Phonics Practice: The Fawn
Phonics Fun: The Song of the West
Phonics Fun: Hidden Camel
Activities
Tic-Tac-Toe
Sentence Roundup
Magic Words
Write Now! pp. 154-58
Arts and Crafts
Sandpaper Print
Cactus
Sandpaper Rubbings
Sing a Song
In the Desert
Don't Touch the Cactus
Motor Skills
Cactus Poses
Sand Play
Camel Caravan
Cactus
Biblical Integration Concepts
God is great, and God is good
God created me and all things
The Bible is God's Word, and it is true
I learn in order to serve God and others
Biblical Integration Strategies
Read Genesis 1:11-13, 24-25; explain that when God created the plants and animals, He designed them to be able to live in different environments
Set up Weekly Learning Centers
Integrate Christian content
Use concrete activities to encourage interest and a desire to learn
Students should sing a phonics song as they learn each new letter-sound association
Have students utilize colorful pictures to reinforce each letter and sound
Present letter formation with the name and sound to reinforce visual memory
Add in Unit 7 activities where appropriate
Review daily
Have students practice Word Family Cards and High-Frequency Vocabulary Words
Use the phonics stories to practice new skills and foster comprehension
Unit 6: Garden Paths and Wandering Trails / Week 32: Vacation Travel
(updated 1/2/24)
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Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.ELF:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Early Learning Foundations
Performance Standard: ELA.K.ELF.B:Phonics and Word Recognition
Standard: ELA.K.II
Description: Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words. •Demonstrate basic knowledge of one-to-one letter-sound correspondences by producing the primary or many of the most frequent sound for each consonant. •Associate the long and short sounds with common spellings (graphemes) for the five major vowels. •Read common high-frequency words by sight (e.g., the, of, to, you, she, my, is, are, do, does). •Distinguish between similarly spelled words by identifying the sounds of the letters that differ.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.ELF:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Early Learning Foundations
Performance Standard: ELA.K.ELF.C:Handwriting
Standard: ELA.K.III
Description: Print upper- and lowercase letters
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.ELF:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Early Learning Foundations
Description: Demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds (phonemes). •Recognize and produce rhyming words. •Count, pronounce, blend, and segment syllables in spoken words. •Blend and segment onsets and rimes of single-syllable spoken words. •Isolate and pronounce the initial, medial vowel, and final sounds (phonemes) in three-phoneme (consonant-vowel-consonant, or CVC) words. (This does not include CVCs ending with /l/, /r/, or /x/.) •Add or substitute individual sounds (phonemes) in simple, one-syllable words to make new words.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.ELF:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Early Learning Foundations
Performance Standard: ELA.K.ELF.E:Print concepts
Standard: ELA.K.V
Description: Demonstrate understanding of the organization and basic features of print. •Follow words from left to right, top to bottom, and page by page. •Recognize that spoken words are represented in written language by specific sequences of letters. •Understand that words are separated by spaces in print. •Recognize and name all upper- and lowercase letters of the alphabet.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.L:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Language
Performance Standard: ELA.K.L.A:Conventions of Standard English
Standard: ELA.K.36
Description: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking. •Print many upper- and lowercase letters. •Use frequently occurring nouns and verbs. •Form regular plural nouns orally by adding /s/ or /es/ (e.g., dog, dogs; wish, wishes). •Understand and use question words (interrogatives) (e.g., who, what, where, when, why, how). •Use the most frequently occurring prepositions (e.g., to, from, in, out, on, off, for, of, by, with). •Produce and expand complete sentences in shared language activities.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.L:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Language
Performance Standard: ELA.K.L.A:Conventions of Standard English
Standard: ELA.K.37
Description: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing. •Capitalize the first word in a sentence and the pronoun I. •Recognize and name end punctuation. •Write a letter or letters for most consonant and short-vowel sounds (phonemes). •Spell simple words phonetically, drawing on knowledge of sound-letter relationships.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.ELF:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Early Learning Foundations
Performance Standard: ELA.K.ELF.A:Fluency
Standard: ELA.K.I
Description: Read emergent-reader texts with purpose and understanding.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.A:Key Ideas and Details
Standard: ELA.K.1
Description: With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.A:Key Ideas and Details
Standard: ELA.K.2
Description: With prompting and support, retell familiar stories, including key details.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.A:Key Ideas and Details
Standard: ELA.K.3
Description: With prompting and support, identify characters, settings, and major events in a story.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.A:Key Ideas and Details
Standard: ELA.K.4
Description: With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.A:Key Ideas and Details
Standard: ELA.K.5
Description: With prompting and support, identify the main topic and retell key details of a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.A:Key Ideas and Details
Standard: ELA.K.6
Description: With prompting and support, describe the connection between two individuals, events, ideas, or pieces of information in a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.B:Craft and Structure
Standard: ELA.K.7
Description: With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about unknown words in a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.B:Craft and Structure
Standard: ELA.K.8
Description: With prompting and support, recognize common types of texts (e.g., storybooks, poems).
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.B:Craft and Structure
Standard: ELA.K.9
Description: With prompting and support, name the author and illustrator of a story and define the role of each in telling the story.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.B:Craft and Structure
Standard: ELA.K.10
Description: With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about unknown words in a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.B:Craft and Structure
Standard: ELA.K.11
Description: With prompting and support, identify the front cover, back cover, and title page of a book.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.B:Craft and Structure
Standard: ELA.K.12
Description: With prompting and support, name the author and illustrator of a text and define the role of each in presenting the ideas or information in a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.C:Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.13
Description: With prompting and support, describe the relationship between illustrations and the story in which they appear (e.g., what moment in a story an illustration depicts).
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.C:Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.14
Description: With prompting and support, compare and contrast the adventures and experiences of characters in familiar stories.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.C:Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.15
Description: With prompting and support, describe the relationship between illustrations and the text in which they appear (e.g., what person, place, thing, or idea in the text an illustration depicts).
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.C:Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.16
Description: With prompting and support, identify the reasons an author gives to support points in a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.C:Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.17
Description: With prompting and support, identify basic similarities in and differences between two texts on the same topic (e.g., in illustrations, descriptions, or procedures).
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.D:Range of Reading and Text Complexity
Standard: ELA.K.18
Description: Actively engage in group reading activities with purpose and understanding.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.D:Range of Reading and Text Complexity
Standard: ELA.K.19
Description: Actively engage in group reading activities with purpose and understanding.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.W:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Writing
Performance Standard: ELA.K.W.B:Production and Distribution of Writing
Standard: ELA.K.24
Description: With guidance and support from adults, respond to questions and suggestions from peers and add details to strengthen writing as needed.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.W:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Writing
Performance Standard: ELA.K.W.C:Research to Build and Present Knowledge
Standard: ELA.K.27
Description: With guidance and support from adults, recall information from experiences or gather information from provided sources to answer a question.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.RW:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Speaking and Listening
Performance Standard: ELA.K.RW.A:Comprehension and Collaboration
Standard: ELA.K.30
Description: Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about kindergarten topics and texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups. •Follow agreed-upon rules for discussions (e.g., listening to others and taking turns speaking about the topics and texts under discussion). •Continue a conversation through multiple exchanges.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.RW:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Speaking and Listening
Performance Standard: ELA.K.RW.A:Comprehension and Collaboration
Standard: ELA.K.31
Description: Confirm understanding of a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media by asking and answering questions about key details and requesting clarification if something is not understood.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.RW:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Speaking and Listening
Performance Standard: ELA.K.RW.A:Comprehension and Collaboration
Standard: ELA.K.32
Description: Ask and answer questions in order to seek help, get information, or clarify something that is not understood.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.RW:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Speaking and Listening
Performance Standard: ELA.K.RW.B:Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.33
Description: Describe familiar people, places, things, and events and, with prompting and support, provide additional detail.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.RW:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Speaking and Listening
Performance Standard: ELA.K.RW.B:Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.35
Description: Speak audibly and express thoughts, feelings, and ideas clearly.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: Social Studies
Strand: SS.K:West Virginia Social Studies - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: H.SS.K:History
Standard: SS.K.16
Description: Investigate the past and explore the differences in other people, times and cultures through stories of people, heroes, pictures, songs, holidays, customs, traditions or legends.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
Student Objectives
Lesson 156
Identify beaches and islands as landforms
Describe the physical characteristics of an island
Compare and contrast dirt and sand
Identify the long sounds of a, e, i, o, and u
Review phonograms with long vowels
Read compound words
Write compound words
Lesson 157
State that Native Americans played an important part in American history
Affirm that Native Americans lived in America before Columbus arrived
Explain how Native American artifacts help us understand history
Identify some Native American historical sites
Identify the beginning sounds in words
Practice rhyming words
Copy a poem
Lesson 158
Identify several United States National Parks, including the Smoky Mountains National Park
Name some wild animals found in Cades Cove
Identify words with sh, ch, th, and wh
Identify the two small words that make up a compound word
Read compound words
Write compound words
Lesson 159
Identify a colonial site
Identify the historical significance of colonial sites
State the importance of samplers in the life of young colonial girls
State that the most important reason to learn to read is to read the Bible
Read a Bible verse
Review long and short vowel sounds
Read long and short vowel words
Read high-frequency words
Write all the lowercase letters of the alphabet
Lesson 160
Interpret detail in pictures
Interpret descriptive sentences
Read simple sentences
Identify key details in a text
Identify rhyming words
Lessons
Lesson 156: Sandy Trails
Lesson 157: Native American Trails
Lesson 158: Hiking Trails
Lesson 159: History Trails
Lesson 160: Raindrops and Other Poems
Learning Center - Building Sentences
Snack of the Week - Picnic
Show and Tell - Encourage the students to bring something they have gotten on vacation
Science
At the Shore
Nature Bracelet
Language Arts
Phonics and English Skills
Sing the Sounds
Read Word Families
Grammar
Compound Words
High Frequency Words
Phonics
Phonics Chapter Book: The Fishing Trip
Phonics Fun: Word Families
Phonics Fun: Tic-Tac-Toe
Phonics Fun: Eating with Bears
Phonics Fun: What Comes Next?
Activities
Catch a Word
High-Frequency Word Sentences
I Am Going....
Motor Skills
Fishing Relay
Racing
Forest Animals
Gallop Along
Arts and Crafts
Sea Creatures
Papoose Pocket
Circle Bear
Build a Town
Illustrating Poetry
Write Now!
Write Now! pp. 159-163
Heritage Studies
Native American Heritage
National Parks
Colonial History
Sing a Song
Ten Little Indians
Biblical Integration Concepts
God is great, and God is good
God created me and all things
The Bible is God's Word, and it is true
I learn in order to serve God and others
Biblical Integration Strategies
Tell the students the story of the Wise and Foolish Builders from Matthew 7:24-27
Set up appropriate Learning Centers with biblical worldview content
Encourage students to actively participate in the reading process
Use phonics stories to practice new skills and foster comprehension
Use colorful pictures and songs to increase interest and reinforce information
Utilize reading groups to foster differentiated instruction
When teaching handwriting, focus on the posture, pencil hold, and paper slant
Help students learn to focus on one specific topic
Encourage independent writing
Include dictation of a class story
Post Bible verses appropriate to the lesson around the classroom
Unit 7: Review Lessons
(updated 1/2/24)
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Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.ELF:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Early Learning Foundations
Performance Standard: ELA.K.ELF.B:Phonics and Word Recognition
Standard: ELA.K.II
Description: Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words. •Demonstrate basic knowledge of one-to-one letter-sound correspondences by producing the primary or many of the most frequent sound for each consonant. •Associate the long and short sounds with common spellings (graphemes) for the five major vowels. •Read common high-frequency words by sight (e.g., the, of, to, you, she, my, is, are, do, does). •Distinguish between similarly spelled words by identifying the sounds of the letters that differ.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.ELF:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Early Learning Foundations
Performance Standard: ELA.K.ELF.C:Handwriting
Standard: ELA.K.III
Description: Print upper- and lowercase letters
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.ELF:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Early Learning Foundations
Description: Demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds (phonemes). •Recognize and produce rhyming words. •Count, pronounce, blend, and segment syllables in spoken words. •Blend and segment onsets and rimes of single-syllable spoken words. •Isolate and pronounce the initial, medial vowel, and final sounds (phonemes) in three-phoneme (consonant-vowel-consonant, or CVC) words. (This does not include CVCs ending with /l/, /r/, or /x/.) •Add or substitute individual sounds (phonemes) in simple, one-syllable words to make new words.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.ELF:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Early Learning Foundations
Performance Standard: ELA.K.ELF.E:Print concepts
Standard: ELA.K.V
Description: Demonstrate understanding of the organization and basic features of print. •Follow words from left to right, top to bottom, and page by page. •Recognize that spoken words are represented in written language by specific sequences of letters. •Understand that words are separated by spaces in print. •Recognize and name all upper- and lowercase letters of the alphabet.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.B:Craft and Structure
Standard: ELA.K.9
Description: With prompting and support, name the author and illustrator of a story and define the role of each in telling the story.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.B:Craft and Structure
Standard: ELA.K.11
Description: With prompting and support, identify the front cover, back cover, and title page of a book.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.L:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Language
Performance Standard: ELA.K.L.A:Conventions of Standard English
Standard: ELA.K.36
Description: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking. •Print many upper- and lowercase letters. •Use frequently occurring nouns and verbs. •Form regular plural nouns orally by adding /s/ or /es/ (e.g., dog, dogs; wish, wishes). •Understand and use question words (interrogatives) (e.g., who, what, where, when, why, how). •Use the most frequently occurring prepositions (e.g., to, from, in, out, on, off, for, of, by, with). •Produce and expand complete sentences in shared language activities.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.L:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Language
Performance Standard: ELA.K.L.A:Conventions of Standard English
Standard: ELA.K.37
Description: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing. •Capitalize the first word in a sentence and the pronoun I. •Recognize and name end punctuation. •Write a letter or letters for most consonant and short-vowel sounds (phonemes). •Spell simple words phonetically, drawing on knowledge of sound-letter relationships.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.ELF:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Early Learning Foundations
Performance Standard: ELA.K.ELF.A:Fluency
Standard: ELA.K.I
Description: Read emergent-reader texts with purpose and understanding.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.A:Key Ideas and Details
Standard: ELA.K.1
Description: With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.A:Key Ideas and Details
Standard: ELA.K.2
Description: With prompting and support, retell familiar stories, including key details.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.A:Key Ideas and Details
Standard: ELA.K.4
Description: With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.A:Key Ideas and Details
Standard: ELA.K.5
Description: With prompting and support, identify the main topic and retell key details of a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.A:Key Ideas and Details
Standard: ELA.K.6
Description: With prompting and support, describe the connection between two individuals, events, ideas, or pieces of information in a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.B:Craft and Structure
Standard: ELA.K.7
Description: With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about unknown words in a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.B:Craft and Structure
Standard: ELA.K.8
Description: With prompting and support, recognize common types of texts (e.g., storybooks, poems).
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.B:Craft and Structure
Standard: ELA.K.10
Description: With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about unknown words in a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.B:Craft and Structure
Standard: ELA.K.12
Description: With prompting and support, name the author and illustrator of a text and define the role of each in presenting the ideas or information in a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.C:Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.13
Description: With prompting and support, describe the relationship between illustrations and the story in which they appear (e.g., what moment in a story an illustration depicts).
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.C:Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.14
Description: With prompting and support, compare and contrast the adventures and experiences of characters in familiar stories.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.C:Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.15
Description: With prompting and support, describe the relationship between illustrations and the text in which they appear (e.g., what person, place, thing, or idea in the text an illustration depicts).
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.C:Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.16
Description: With prompting and support, identify the reasons an author gives to support points in a text.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.C:Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.17
Description: With prompting and support, identify basic similarities in and differences between two texts on the same topic (e.g., in illustrations, descriptions, or procedures).
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.D:Range of Reading and Text Complexity
Standard: ELA.K.18
Description: Actively engage in group reading activities with purpose and understanding.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.R:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Reading
Performance Standard: ELA.K.R.D:Range of Reading and Text Complexity
Standard: ELA.K.19
Description: Actively engage in group reading activities with purpose and understanding.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.W:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Writing
Performance Standard: ELA.K.W.A:Text Types and Purposes
Standard: ELA.K.22
Description: Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to narrate a single event or several loosely linked events, tell about the events in the order in which they occurred, and provide a reaction to what happened.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.W:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Writing
Performance Standard: ELA.K.W.C:Research to Build and Present Knowledge
Standard: ELA.K.27
Description: With guidance and support from adults, recall information from experiences or gather information from provided sources to answer a question.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.RW:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Speaking and Listening
Performance Standard: ELA.K.RW.A:Comprehension and Collaboration
Standard: ELA.K.30
Description: Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about kindergarten topics and texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups. •Follow agreed-upon rules for discussions (e.g., listening to others and taking turns speaking about the topics and texts under discussion). •Continue a conversation through multiple exchanges.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.RW:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Speaking and Listening
Performance Standard: ELA.K.RW.A:Comprehension and Collaboration
Standard: ELA.K.31
Description: Confirm understanding of a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media by asking and answering questions about key details and requesting clarification if something is not understood.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.RW:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Speaking and Listening
Performance Standard: ELA.K.RW.A:Comprehension and Collaboration
Standard: ELA.K.32
Description: Ask and answer questions in order to seek help, get information, or clarify something that is not understood.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.RW:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Speaking and Listening
Performance Standard: ELA.K.RW.B:Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.33
Description: Describe familiar people, places, things, and events and, with prompting and support, provide additional detail.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.RW:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Speaking and Listening
Performance Standard: ELA.K.RW.B:Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.34
Description: Add drawings or other visual displays to descriptions as desired to provide additional detail.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.RW:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Speaking and Listening
Performance Standard: ELA.K.RW.B:Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard: ELA.K.35
Description: Speak audibly and express thoughts, feelings, and ideas clearly.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.L:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Language
Performance Standard: ELA.K.L.C:Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
Standard: ELA.K.39
Description: Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on kindergarten reading and content. •Identify new meanings for familiar words and apply them accurately (e.g., knowing duck is a bird and learning the verb to duck). •Introduce the most frequently occurring inflections and affixes (e.g., -ed, -s, re-, un-, pre-, -ful, -less) as a clue to the meaning of an unknown word.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.L:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Language
Performance Standard: ELA.K.L.C:Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
Standard: ELA.K.40
Description: With guidance and support from adults, explore word relationships and nuances in word meanings. •Sort common objects into categories (e.g., shapes, foods) to gain a sense of the concepts the categories represent. •Demonstrate understanding of frequently occurring verbs and adjectives by relating them to their opposites (antonyms). •Identify real-life connections between words and their use (e.g., note places at school that are colorful). •Distinguish shades of meaning among verbs describing the same general action (e.g., walk, march, strut, prance) by acting out the meanings.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Strand: ELA.K.L:English Language Arts: Kindergarten: Language
Performance Standard: ELA.K.L.C:Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
Standard: ELA.K.41
Description: Use words and phrases acquired through conversations, reading and being read to, and responding to texts.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
K Language Development (inactive)
K Reading
X
Subject Area: Social Studies
Strand: SS.K:West Virginia Social Studies - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: C.SS.K:Civics
Standard: SS.K.1
Description: Develop an understanding of citizenship and patriotism through a variety of experiences (e.g., appropriate behavior, sharing, taking turns, volunteering, being honest and demonstrating responsibility for materials and personal belongings).
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Social Studies
Strand: SS.K:West Virginia Social Studies - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: C.SS.K:Civics
Standard: SS.K.2
Description: Participate in role play to resolve disputes, and demonstrate tolerance and acceptance of others and their ideas.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Social Studies
Strand: SS.K:West Virginia Social Studies - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: C.SS.K:Civics
Standard: SS.K.3
Description: Investigate the need for rules in their environment, create a set of classroom rules, and explore the consequences for not following the rules.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Social Studies
Strand: SS.K:West Virginia Social Studies - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: C.SS.K:Civics
Standard: SS.K.4
Description: Investigate the leadership roles within their families, classrooms and schools and demonstrate their understanding through activities such as role play and classroom jobs.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Social Studies
Strand: SS.K:West Virginia Social Studies - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: E.SS.K:Economics
Standard: SS.K.5
Description: Investigate occupations within the school and local community.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Social Studies
Strand: SS.K:West Virginia Social Studies - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: E.SS.K:Economics
Standard: SS.K.6
Description: Discover the basic needs of people (e.g., shelter, food, clothing, etc.) and give examples of each.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Social Studies
Strand: SS.K:West Virginia Social Studies - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: E.SS.K:Economics
Standard: SS.K.7
Description: Investigate the exchange of goods and services (e.g., money, bartering, trading, etc.).
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Social Studies
Strand: SS.K:West Virginia Social Studies - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: E.SS.K:Economics
Standard: SS.K.8
Description: Distinguish between wants and needs.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Social Studies
Strand: SS.K:West Virginia Social Studies - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: G.SS.K:Geography
Standard: SS.K.11
Description: Compare and contrast the ways humans adapt based on seasons and weather.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Social Studies
Strand: SS.K:West Virginia Social Studies - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: H.SS.K:History
Standard: SS.K.14
Description: Illustrate personal history (e.g., first and last name, birthday, age, guardian's name, and other personal data).
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Social Studies
Strand: SS.K:West Virginia Social Studies - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: H.SS.K:History
Standard: SS.K.16
Description: Investigate the past and explore the differences in other people, times and cultures through stories of people, heroes, pictures, songs, holidays, customs, traditions or legends.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Social Studies
Strand: SS.K:West Virginia Social Studies - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: H.SS.K:History
Standard: SS.K.17
Description: Explore time, places, people and events in relationship to student's own life (e.g., family trees, pictures, stories, etc.).
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
X
Subject Area: Social Studies
Strand: SS.K:West Virginia Social Studies - Kindergarten
Performance Standard: WV.SS.K:WV History
Standard: SS.K.18
Description: Investigate state symbols, celebrations, holidays and prominent West Virginians.
Attached Courses:
K ELA (Focus on Fives)
Objectives
The student will be able to:
State ways that people celebrate Labor Day
Compose a sentence about the job a student's parent has
Explain from Genesis 2 that God made us to work
Associate honoring working people with the celebration of Labor Day
Practice letters and sounds
Summarize the voyage taken by Columbus and his crew
State that Columbus's discovery of land happened in 1492
Explain why Columbus Day is important
Read short-vowel word families
Practice high-frequency words
Practice handwriting letters
Define veteran
Explain the importance of Veterans Day
Compose a thank-you letter to a veteran
Explain why the Pilgrims came to America
Identify the Mayflower as the ship on which the Pilgrims sailed to the New World
Explain why the Pilgrims held a Thanksgiving feast
Dramatize the first Thanksgiving
Dress like a Pilgrim or Native American
Compose a prayer of thanksgiving to God
State why we celebrate Christmas
Use role-play to act out the Christmas story
Practice proper pencil hold
Name the three gifts that wise men gave to Jesus
State why people give gifts at Christmas
List some Christmas traditions
Create a Christmas card
Name familiar Christmas songs and carols
Sing Christmas songs and carols
Participate in caroling
Practice letters and sounds
Read short-vowel word families
Read the high-frequency word Jesus
Practice handwriting letters
Relate biblical truth to life
Gain a knowledge of Bible times and places
Read aloud with expression
Review classroom procedures
Practice reading familiar high-frequency and word family words
Compose a sentence to add to a story
Explain the importance of recycling
Explain recycling as a way of caring for the resources God has given
Practice recycling by disposing of trash and recyclables correctly
Associate the birthday of Martin Luther King Jr. with the celebration of Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Recall the contributions of Martin Luther King Jr. to U.S. history
State that God loves all people
Relate the love of God for all people to how people should treat one another
State facts about groundhogs
Explain why people celebrate Groundhog Day
Complete a groundhog craft
List ways God shows His love to us
Celebrate Valentine's Day
Identify the Washington Monument as the tallest monument in Washington D.C.
Explain why the Washington Monument was built
Associate George Washington's birthday with the celebration of Presidents' Day
Identify colors
Match color words
Read color words
Read simple sentences with the aid of a rebus
Interpret descriptive sentences
Relate the true Easter story according to the Bible
State the importance of Christ's death, burial, and resurrection
Practice letters and sounds
Read word families
List several common Easter traditions
Evaluate current Easter traditions based on the true Easter story
Define memorial
Explain why Memorial Day is important
Compare and contrast Memorial Day with Veterans Day
Lessons
Lesson 161: Labor Day
Lesson 162: Columbus Day
Lesson 163: Veterans Day
Lesson 164: Pilgrims
Lesson 165: I Am Thankful
Lesson 166: The Christmas Story
Lesson 167: The Wise Men
Lesson 168: Christmas Traditions
Lesson 169: Christmas Songs and Carols
Lesson 170: Christmas Bells
Lesson 171: Reading Review
Lesson 172: Recycling
Lesson 173: Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Lesson 174: Groundhog Day
Lesson 175: Valentine's Day
Lesson 176: President's Day
Lesson 177: Colors
Lesson 178: Easter Story
Lesson 179: Easter Traditions
Lesson 180: Memorial Day
Heritage Studies
A Day for Workers
The Discovery of a New Land
A Day to Celebrate Heroes
A Journey to Freedom
The Mayflower
I Am Thankful
The Christmas Story
Travelers from the East
Family Traditions
Caroling
Recycling
Martin Luther King Jr.
Groundhogs
Valentine's Day
Honoring the Presidents
Jesus' Death, Burial, and Resurrection
Traditions
Remembering the Fallen
Language Arts
Phonics and English Skills Review
Letter and Sound Review
Review Word Families
Handwriting
Posture
Alphabetical Jobs
Thank-You Cards
Thanksgiving
Feather Writing
Christmas Stars
Name the Ornament
Vocabulary & Punctuation
Christmas Acrostic
Tic-Tac-Toe
Describing Peanuts
High-Frequency Sentences
If I Were President
Color by Word
Matching Uppercase and Lowercase
Marshmallow Chicks
Arts and Crafts
When I Grow Up
Ship Art
American Flag
Pinecone Turkeys
Thanksgiving Dinner
Pompom Christmas Tree
Cookie Cutter Fun
Sugar Cookies
Christmas Cards
Paper Chains
Christmas Memories
Recycled Bookmarks
Alabama Flag
Valentines
The President's Car
Color Collage
Easter Picture
Easter Eggs
Stars and Stripes
Science
Columbus's Voyage
Alabama Farming
Groundhogs
Color Cookies
Egg Sculptures
Patriotic Pompoms
Motor Skills
What I Want to Be
Scavenger Hunt
Parade
Duck, Duck, Turkey
Turkey Waddle
Bouncing Presents
Mitten-Munch Relay
Candy-Cane Fishing Relay
Christmas Sensory Bins
Sorting Jingle Bells
Paper Salad
Newspaper Snowballs
Corn, Corn, Peanut
Shadow Tag
Heart Tic-Tac-Toe
Presidents on Coins
Match the Color
Color Sorting
Easter Egg Hunt
Patriotic Streamers
Write Now!
Write Now pp. 164-175
Sing a Song
Familiar Thanksgiving songs
Christmas Carols
Long Ago at Christmas
Favorite Christmas Carols
Ring the Bells
Jesus Loves Me
Easter Songs
Literature
Phonics Practice
Phonics Stories
Class Read-Aloud
Partner Read
Composition
Biblical Integration Concepts
God is great, and God is good
God created me and all things
The Bible is God's Word, and it is true
I learn in order to serve God and others
Biblical Integration Strategies
Read Genesis 2:7, 15, 19-20 aloud and guide a discussion about how God made us to work
Read 1 Samuel 18:6-7; explain to the students that in Bible times, soldiers were honored for defending their lands
Read Luke 2:1-20 again, emphasizing the reason Jesus came to earth
Read Luke 23:50-24:10 aloud and tell of the story of the death, burial, and resurrection of Christ
Read about the Resurrection in Mark 16:1-6
Read Joshua 4:4-7; guide a discussion about the memorial that the tribes of Israel set up to remind future generations of what God did for His people; point out that the memorial signified God's power and might
Use these review lessons when appropriate throughout the year
Assign practice pages to reinforce the theme and learning goals
Have students work in partners to improve oral reading skills
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