English Language Arts Kindergarten (2023)
Lesson Plans

Reading (K.R)

Students will learn to proficiently read and comprehend grade level literature and informational text, including seminal U.S. documents of historical and literary significance, at the high end of the grade level text complexity band, with scaffolding as needed. *Standard R.4 includes an asterisk to refer educators back to the Text Complexity Grade Bands and Associated Lexile Ranges in the introduction of the standards.

Standard K.R.7:

Identify the characters, settings, and important events in a story (RL) or pieces of information in a text. (RI)

• Camp Paws and Claws & Farm Animals
  This 3-day activity reinforces what students have learned about animals. The activities focus on farm animals: cows, pigs, hens and ducks.
• Creating Question and Answer Books through Guided Research
  This series of activities is designed to teach research strategies. Students use KWL charts to guide their inquiry and publish their results in a collaborative question and answer book.
• Digging Up Details on Worms: Using the Language of Science in an Inquiry Study
  This lesson, in which students research worms in order to create a classroom habitat, incorporates reading and writing across content areas as well as science activities.
• Fairy Tale Maps
  Students will begin to understand the concept of maps by describing the path that Little Red Riding Hood took on the way to Grandma's house.
• Identifying Characters in Kindergarten
  Over the course of a few days,  students will learn to identify characters from stories.  Students will identify a character from a book they have read.  They will draw their character, take a picture of their drawing, and create a post in Adobe Creative Cloud Express on their character.  They will then get to present their post in small groups.  
• Kindergarten Lesson Ideas: Code & Go Mouse
  This is a list of potential ideas based off a specific technology. None of these ideas are fully developed lessons. Please make changes and adaptations as necessary for the students in your class.

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