Academic Expectations for Kindergarten Beginning of Year Academic Expectations

1. Academic Expectations for Kindergarten • Beginning of Year Academic Expectations • All kindergarten students will be assessed with in the first few weeks of school. The following are minimum expectations for the beginning of the year. • · Students are able to identify 15 uppercase letters • · Students are able to identify 15 lowercase letters • · Students are able to produce 10 letter sounds • · Students are able to write their name using primarily lowercase letters • · Students are able to read a simple book with repeated text (Level A) • · Students are able to draw a detailed picture that represents a story • · Students are able describe what is happening in their story • · Students are able to count a group of objects by ones up to 7 • · Students are able to identify numerals 1-10 • End of Year Academic Expectations • By the end of the year students should have mastered the following task. • · Students are able to identify all uppercase letters • · Students are able to identify all lowercase letters • · Students are able to produce all letter sounds • · Students are able to read and write 25 sight words • · Students are able to write a simple story using: • · spaces between words • · Capitalize “I”, beginning of sentences and names • · Ending punctuation • · Correctly formed letters • · Words and pictures match • · Words that are spelled the way they sound (was-“wuz”) • · Students can write, recognize, and count numbers to 20 • · Students can count numbers to 20 • · Students able to count on from an original set of objects • · Students are able to model addition and subtraction using objects • · Students are able to identify, create and extend patterns • · Students are able to recognize and describe shapes