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:
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.
Read Stories
Next, students will focus specifically on the spaces in print that separate words.
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.
Words That Rhyme
In this standard, students will continue to learn about and identify rhyming words.
Count Syllables
Kindergarten students will focus on syllables in words, learning how to count and pronounce them.
Letters Make Words
Students will focus on consonant-vowel-consonant words, learning to isolate and pronounce each sound.
Word Families
In this standard, students will learn to add or change individual sounds in one-syllable words to make new ones.
Letter Sounds
Students will learn the basics of one-to-one letter sounds.
Sight Words
Students will continue to build their skills in reading by learning to recognize the most common high-frequency words by sight.
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:
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:
Read Stories
Follow words from left to right, top to bottom, and page by page.
Through stories, read-aloud videos, and learning songs, students will become more engaged with storytelling and understand the basic principles of following text.
Read Stories
Understand that words are separated by spaces in print.
Engaging read-along stories like My Pet Llamacorn help students continue to read stories word-by-word and page-by-page.
Upper and Lowercase Letters
Recognize and name all upper and lowercase letters of the alphabet.
In one of several engaging activities, students will take a trip to the dog park to help Deacon find all of his lost toys by identifying letters of the alphabet.
Words That Rhyme
Recognize and produce rhyming words.
The classic Seasame Street gang is here to help! Students can board a train with Grover to play Rhyme Time, picking up different train cars with words that rhyme.
Count Syllables
Count, pronounce, blend, and segment syllables in spoken words.
After several instructional videos, students can jump into games like Jumping Syllables, where they help Austin jump on the trampoline to count and sound out syllables.
Letters Make Words
Isolate and pronounce the initial, medial vowel, and final sounds (phonemes) in three-phoneme (consonant-vowel-consonant, or CVC) words. (This does not include CVCs ending with /l/, /r/, or /x/.)
In one of several games for this standard, students will enter a construction zone to help build words based on letter sounds.
Word Families
Add or substitute individual sounds (phonemes) in simple, one-syllable words to make new words.
In one of several activities, students can go water sliding with Cat and Rabbit by identifying the sounds and letters of one-syllable words.
Letter Sounds
Demonstrate basic knowledge of one-to-one letter-sound correspondences by producing the primary or many of the most frequent sound for each consonant.
Through interactive and engaging games, students will practice creating words based on letter sounds and pictures.
Word Families
Distinguish between similarly spelled words by identifying the sounds of the letters that differ.
Students will sing along with Jack Hartmann to ‘workout with the word families.’
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