Ascension School

          Chesterfield, MO

Kindergarten Curriculum

Reading/Language Arts 

                    GOALS: 

The students of Ascension School will: 

·                    Apply the concept of vowels and consonants

·                    Associate upper & lower case letters with sound, name & formation

·                    Associate pictures with written words

·                    Enhance listening skills

·                    Apply left-to-right directionality

·                    Interpret music

·                    Utilize word attack skills

·                    Recognize patterns within words

·                    Recognize and apply concept of relative size

·                    Trace and write manuscript letters and words

·                    Identify and understand grammar concepts

·                    Show appreciation for literature

·                    Identify grade-level sight words

·                    Apply auditory identification of letters

·                    Utilize concept of auditory and visual sequence

·                    Speak in complete, coherent sentences

·                    Distinguish conversation in the written word

·                    Retell a story

·                    Make inferences

·                    Utilize listening skills

·                    Identify the concept of shapes, sizes

·                    Identify punctuation

·                    Identify letters with corresponding sounds

Reading / Language Arts

CONTENT: 

·                    grade-level sight words

·                    reading comprehension

·                    phonetic awareness

·                    directionality

·                    letters, words, spaces between words

·                    types of literature (fiction, fairy tales, non-fiction)

·                    rhyming words

·                    inferences

·                    book concepts

·                    conversation

·                    retelling stories

·                    sentences and sentence structure

·                    conversation

·                    punctuation marks:  period, comma, question mark

·                    expressive language

·                    receptive language

·                    word attack

·                    oral reading

·                    sequences

·                    pictures and their meanings

·                    listening

·                    sentences-speaking  and writing