Language Arts Curriculum Overview

Language Arts Kindergarten

• Recognizing and writing letters
• Using letter-sound associations
• Distinguishing between conventions of print e.g.,
• front and back of book, top and bottom of page,
• and left to right directionality
• Finger pointing accurately
• Finding target words
• Predicting outcomes

  Grade K Reading Related Web Sites

  • Open Court -Resources to support the Open Court Reading Program for students and teachers
  • Houghton Mifflin Reading/Language Arts Center
  • Children's Literature Web Guide

• Experience
  • Big books
  • Concept books (ABC, number)
  • Picture storybooks
  • Poetry, nursery rhymes, songs
  • Predictable books
  • Books representing a variety of ethnic and cultural groups

Grade K Literature Related Web Sites

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  • Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site
  • Children's Literature Web Guide
  • The Napping House
  • Nursery Rhymes - large print - illustrated
  • Tales To Tell Choose from rhymes and nonsense, fables, animal stories, and many other kinds of stories by category, for adventures of all sorts, along with reading practice.
  • CyberGuides: Teacher Guides and Student Activities - Standards-based, web-delivered units on childrens' literature for grades K-12.
  • Little Explorers From "aardvark" to "zoologist," little Net surfers can click their way through the alphabet. Each letter of Little Explorers' dictionary has dozens of illustrated entries, most of them linked to external sites.

WRITING

• Illustrating a story
• Retelling a story
• Dictating a story
• Writing a phrase
• Prewriting and drafting
• Begin development of research skills: find specific information within a source

  Writing Related Web Sites

  • Fairy Tale Cyber Dictionary Project - Classes create pictures and sentences for a fairy tale then share them through the Internet.
  • Cafe Hawthorne - a district 97 showcase of student writings.
  • Bat Magnet Poem Board - This is just like the "real" magnetic poetry board.  You can also change the available words to create poetry about things other than bats!

Spelling Handwriting

• Learn manuscript