THINGS YOUR CHILD NEEDS TO KNOW BY THE END OF KINDERGARTEN
Kindergarten speakers and listeners need to:
- Follow agreed-upon rules for discussion
- Speak audibly and express thoughts, feelings, and ideas clearly
Kindergarten readers need to:
- Understand key details of a text
- Identify characters, setting, and major events in a story
- Retell familiar stories
- Understand the purpose of an author and illustrator
- Read emergent-level texts with purpose and understanding
- Understand Concepts of Print
- Recognize and produce rhyming words
- Know and apply grade-level phonic skills (blending and segmenting) and analysis in decoding words
- Read common high-frequency words by sight (there are 38)
Kindergarten writers need to:
- Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to create narrative, informational, and opinionated writing pieces.
- Participate in shared research and writing projects
- Demonstrate understanding of writing conventions-using correct grammar, using punctuation, capitalizing the first word in a sentence and the pronoun “I”
Spell simple words phonetically, using knowledge of sound-letter relationships
Kindergarten mathematicians need to:
- Count to 100 by ones and tens
- Write numbers from 0-20. Represent a number of objects with a written number 0-20
- Compare numbers (>,<,=)
- Solve addition and subtraction word problems, and add and subtract within 10 (using objects or drawings to represent the problem)
- Work with numbers 11-19 to gain foundations for place value
- Describe and compare measure attributes (length or weight)
- Identify and describe shapes (squares, circles, triangles, rectangles, hexagons, cubes, cones, cylinders, and spheres