Welcome to Kindergarten 2B
2014-2015
Literacy
Literacy is held each morning after Circle Time and Jolly Phonics. The students spend their time in literacy learning the key elements needed to read and write. Below you can find information on what we will be covering each month in literacy class.
Content:
1. Writing
2. Group Discussions
3. Illustrate Story Structure
4. Character Traits
5. Sound Blends-oo, ow, ou, er, ir, ur
Objectives:
1.Retell the order of important events in a story.
2. Recall story characters and character traits.
3. Participate in group discussion.
4. Identify and categorize words that name places and animals
Books Used:
I’m A Writer
K2 Workbook Semester 1
Week-by Week Phonics Homework Book
Jolly Grammar Book 1
February
Theme: Fairy Tales
January
Theme: Plants
Content:
1. Sentences and questions
2. Writing/Reading
3. Group Discussions
4. Story Structure
5. Opposites
6.Develop Vocabulary
Objectives:
1. Draw conclusions from facts presented in a story
2.Write to record ideas and reflections
3. Describe how illustrations contribute to a text
4. Develop vocabulary to understand a story
5. Learn vocabulary of opposites
Books Used:
I’m A Writer
Jolly Grammar Book 1
K2 Workbook Semester 1/2
Week-by Week Phonics Homework Book
Content:
1. Sentences and questions.
2. Group Discussions
3. Illustrate Story Structure
Objectives:
1.Use reading strategies with connecting context.
2. Make contributions in a group discussion
3. Use captions for illustrations
4. Understand simple story structure: beginning, middle, end
5. Read a sentence containing high frequency words
Books Used:
I’m A Writer
K2 Workbook Semester 1
Week-by Week Phonics Homework Book
Jolly Grammar Book 1
December
Theme: Christmas
November
Theme: Under The Sea
Content:
1. Punctuation
2. Develop sentences and questions
3. Sound blends "sh" "ch" "ng"
4. Rhyming words
5. High Frequency word: 'Where'
Objectives:
1. Recognize how readers use punctuation to comprehend.
3. Put sentences in sequential order.
4. Identify and print words with sound blends.
5. Produce rhyming words
6. Read a sentence containing HFWs.
Books Used:
I’m A Writer
Jolly Phonics Pupil 3/Jolly Grammar Book 1
K2 Workbook Semester 1
Week-by Week Phonics Homework Book
Content:
1. Sentences with short vowel words.
2. Develop sentences and questions
3. Sound Blends
Objectives:
1.Able to know and identify the differences between letters, words, and sentences.
2. Able to read, comprehend, and respond appropriately to questions
3. Identify and print words with sound blends "sh" and "ch"
4. HFW: Why? Who? What?
Books Used:
I’m A Writer
Jolly Phonics Pupil 3/Jolly Grammar Book 1
K2 Workbook Semester 1
Week-by Week Phonics Homework Book
October
Theme: Halloween
September
Theme: Animals and Insects
Content:
1. Short Vowels
2. Short Vowel Words
3. Short vowel sentences with animal words - cat and dog
4. Rhyming words
5. Positional Words
3. High Frequency word: 'Have'
Objectives:
1. Identify & print beginning, ending, middle sounds, read and print short vowel words through phonetic sounds.
3. Recognize HFW: "Have"
4. Produce & identify rhyming words.
Books Used:
I’m A Writer
Jolly Phonics Pupil 3/Jolly Grammar Book 1
K2 Workbook Semester 1
Week-by Week Phonics Homework Book
Content:
1. Uppercase and lowercase alphabet.
2. Short vowel letters/words
3. High Frequency word: 'where?'
4. Positional Words
Objectives:
1.Print all letters
2. Identify & print beginning, ending, middle sounds, read and print short vowel words through phonetic sounds.
3. Recognize HFW: "Where?"
4. Give oral directions containing Positional words – in, on
Books Used:
I’m A Writer
Jolly Phonics Pupil 3/Jolly Grammar Book 1
K2 Workbook Semester 1
Week-by Week Phonics Homework Book
Additional Notes:
*Initial Student Assessments