Quarter 3 Standards
These are the
standards your child will be graded on in Quarter 3.
Please let me know
if you have any questions.
English Language Arts
Kindergarten Reading Foundational
Skills
Isolate and pronounce the initial, medial vowel,
and final sounds in three-phoneme
(CVC) words.
Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.
Associate the long and short sounds with common spellings for the 5 major vowels.
Read high-frequency sight words by sight (e.g., the, of, to, you, she, my, is, are, do, does, etc.)
Read emergent level texts with purpose and understanding.
Kindergarten Reading Informational Text
With prompting & support, identify the main idea and retell key details of a
text.
With prompting & support, describe the connection between 2 individuals, events, ideas, or
pieces of information in a text.
Name the author
and illustrator and be able to describe the role of each.
With prompting & support, describe the relationship between illustrations and the text in which they appear (e.g., what person, place, thing, or idea the illustration represents).
With prompting & support, identify the reasons an author gives to support points in a text.
With prompting & support, identify basic similarities and differences between
two texts of the same topic.
Kindergarten Reading Literature
Kindergarten Writing
Use a combination of
drawing, dictating, and writing to compose opinion pieces.With guidance & support, respond to questions and suggestions from peers to add details to strengthen writing as needed.
With guidance & support, explore a variety of digital tools to produce and publish
writing.
Participate in shared
research and writing projects
(e.g., explore a number of books by a favorite author and express opinions
about them).
With guidance & support, recall information from experiences or gather information from provided sources to answer a question.
Kindergarten Language
Form regular plural nouns orally by adding /s/ or /es/ (e.g., dogs, wishes).
Capitalize the first word in a sentence and the pronoun I.
Write a letter or letters for most consonant and short vowel sounds.
Produce & expand complete
sentences in shared language activities.
With guidance and support, explore word relationships and
nuances in word meanings. Identify
real-life connections between words and their use (e.g., note places at school
that are colorful).
Use words and phrases acquired through conversations,
reading and being read to, and responding to texts.
Kindergarten Speaking & Listening
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.
Describe familiar
people, places, things, and events. With prompting & support, provide
additional details.
Add drawings or visual displays to descriptions as needed to provide additional details.
Math
Counting and Cardinality
Count to 100 by tens
and ones. Q3: Rote count to 70; count by 10’s to 100.
Geometry
Describe objects in
the environment using names of shapes, and describe the relative positions of
these objects using terms such as: above,
below, beside, in front of, behind, and next to.
Correctly name shapes
regardless of orientation or overall size.
Identify shapes as
2-D (flat) or 3-D (solid).
Model shapes in the
world by building shapes from components (e.g., sticks and clay) and drawing
shapes.
Compose simple shapes
to form larger shapes. For example: “Can
you join these two triangles with full sides touching to make a rectangle?”
Operations & Algebraic Thinking
Represent addition
and subtraction with objects,
fingers, mental images, drawings, sounds, acting out, verbal explanations,
expressions, or equations.
Solve addition and
subtraction word problems. Add and
subtract within 10.
Decompose (break
apart) numbers less than or equal to 10 into pairs in more than one way. (For example: 5 = 2 + 3 and 5 = 4 + 1)
For any number from
1-9, find the number that makes 10 when added to the given number.
Fluently add and subtract within 5.
Please work with your child to reinforce the concepts we are
teaching in school.
As always, thank you for your support!
As always, thank you for your support!
Ms. O’Donnell
