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