Kindergarten Reading Foundational Skills Resources for Teachers

Kindergarten ELA Domain: Reading Foundational Skills

In this first domain, Kindergarten students will build upon the skills and lessons they learned in eSpark Learning’s Pre-K ELA curriculum. They’ll continue engaging with stories, words, sounds, and letters of the alphabet. eSpark Learning supports students and teachers throughout the learning journey, providing standards-aligned activities and resources that are fun, engaging, and streamline learning in the classroom. Here’s a closer look at each standard within the Kindergarten Reading Foundational Skills domain:

K.RF.1.a

Read Stories

In this standard, students will learn the basics of reading stories by following words left to right, top to bottom, and page by page.

K.RF.1.c

Read Stories

Next, students will focus specifically on the spaces in print that separate words.

K.RF.1.d

Upper and Lowercase Letters

Finally, students will analyze patterns and relationships using two given rules. First, they’ll identify apparent relationships between corresponding terms. From there, students will form and graph ordered pairs on a coordinate plane.

K.RF.2.a

Words That Rhyme

In this standard, students will continue to learn about and identify rhyming words.

K.RF.2.b

Count Syllables

Kindergarten students will focus on syllables in words, learning how to count and pronounce them.

K.RF.2.d

Letters Make Words

Students will focus on consonant-vowel-consonant words, learning to isolate and pronounce each sound.

K.RF.2.e

Word Families

In this standard, students will learn to add or change individual sounds in one-syllable words to make new ones.

K.RF.3.a

Letter Sounds

Students will learn the basics of one-to-one letter sounds.

K.RF.3.c

Sight Words

Students will continue to build their skills in reading by learning to recognize the most common high-frequency words by sight.

K.RF.3.d

Word Families

Finally, students will learn to tell the difference between similarly spelled words through sounds and letters.

Reading Foundational Skills is one of four domains included in the Kindergarten ELA standards. Students can expect to learn concepts like:

Understanding the basics of reading a story
Recognizing and identifying all upper and lowercase letters of the alphabet
Identifying and producing words that rhyme
Recognizing and counting syllables
Reading common high-frequency words

With the help of eSpark Learning’s standards-aligned resources, students can learn 1.5 times faster than their peers. Through engaging activities, videos, songs, and games, teachers can feel more confident in their curriculum and ensure students are well on their way to achieving the goals and expectations outlined by the Common Core.

Teachers can also monitor students’ progress through eSpark, tracking their individual performance for each activity. With this knowledge, teachers can fine-tune their lessons and curriculum as they see fit, providing more individualized learning where needed. Below is a more detailed breakdown of each Common Core standard and corresponding activities to help students learn: