Curriculum Map
Curriculum Mapping For Teacher Kristin’s Kindergarten Class
Word Study: Phonics, Spelling, Vocabulary
➣ Recognizes upper and lowercase letters
➣ Sorts letters, pictures and words
➣ Develops phonological awareness:
rhyming, initial and final consonants sounds, short vowel sounds, and word families
➣ Understands syllables
➣ Develops sight word vocabulary
➣ Uses developmental spelling
➣ Engages in multi-sensory learning
Listening & Speaking
➣ Follows verbal multi-step instructions
➣ Listens actively during stories and group discussions
➣ Develops comprehension skills in stories read aloud:
predicting, sequencing, inferring, and summarizing
➣ Makes text-to-life and text-to-text connections
➣ Recites rhymes, poems, and songs
➣ Develops vocabulary
➣ Learns about and compares authors and illustrators
➣ Develops an understanding of Fairy Tales
including cultural variations
➣ Participates in dramatic play, storytelling, skits, and presentations
Reading
➣ Isolates letter sounds within words
➣ Uses pictures cues, text patterns, and decoding to read sentences
➣ Participates in story mapping
to examine setting, characters, problems, solutions, and recurring themes
➣ Contributes to Venn diagrams comparing and contrasting stories
➣ Reads familiar words from the job chart and calendar
➣ Recognizes environmental print
➣ Develops sight word vocabulary
➣ Makes text-to-self and text-to-text connections
Writer's Workshop
➣ Puts ideas on paper with pictures and words
➣ Writes words by isolating the beginning, middle, and final sounds
➣ Writes sentences
➣ Plans stories and stretches them across multiple pages
➣ Adds more details and pictures to stories
➣ Shares stories with peers and responds to peer feedback
➣ Focuses on a small moment in writing about a real life experience
➣ Writes informational texts
Handwriting
➣ Maintains good posture when:
writing, placing the paper, and holding the pencil using a pincer grip
➣ Forms letters with correct:
proportion, spacing, stroke order, and stroke direction
➣ Writes upper and lowercase letters
➣ Writes numbers
[Resources]
Fundations
Wilson Language Basics
Phonemic Awareness Curriculum 2022
Heggerty
Wordly Wise 3000 Curriculum
Systematic Academic Vocabulary Development, by Chreyl Dresser, Educators Publishing Service, curriculum
Words Their Way, Letter and Picture Sorts for Emergent Spellers
by Donald R. Bear, Marcia Invernizzi, Francine Johnston, and Shane Templeton, Pearson Education, Inc., lessons
Writer’s Workshop
Units of Study Lessons by Lucy Calkins, lessons
Fiction and nonfiction book sets
(Scholastic I Can Read, National Geographic Kids)
Counting & Cardinality
➣ Know number names and write and recite the count sequence
➣ Apply one-to-one correspondence to count the number of objects
➣ Apply the concept of magnitude to compare numbers and quantities
Numbers and Operations In Base Ten
➣ Use place-value to compose and decompose numbers up to 19
Operations and Algebraic Thinking
➣ Extend the concepts of putting together and taking apart to add and subtract within 10
Geometry
➣ Identify and describe two- and three-dimensional shapes
➣ Analyze, compare, create, and compose two- and three-dimensional shapes
Measurement and Data
➣ Describe and compare attributes of length, area, weight, and capacity of everyday objects
➣ Classify objects and count the number of objects in each category
[Resources]
Big Ideas Math
Big Ideas Learning
Group Guidance
Friendship Skills
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Healthy Communication Skills
Friendship Skills
Peacebuilding
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Resolving Conflicts
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Decision Making & Social Problem Solving
Peacebuilding
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Resolving Conflicts
Feelings and Emotions
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Safety
Feelings and Emotions
Wellness
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Nutrition
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Mindfulness
Wellness
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Nutrition
Community Involvement
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Career Development
Community Involvement
[Resources]
Pollyanna K-8 Racial Literacy Curriculum
Monique Vogelsang
Health and Wellness Textbooks
by Meeks and Heit
Little Spot Series
by Diane Alber
Wanna Play Friendship Skills
by Ruth Herron Ross & Beth Roberts-Pacchione
