Nine Weeks Skills

First Nine Weeks

Language Arts:

-Demonstrate understanding of the organization and basic features of print.

-Recognize and name all upper and lowercase letters of the alphabet.

-Read common high-frequency words by sight. --With prompting and support, identify characters in a story.

-Recognize common types of text (fiction/nonfiction).

-Segment syllables in spoken words.

-Recognize rhyming words.

-Write first name.

Math:

-Count to 20 by ones.

-Write numbers 0-5. Represent a number of objects with a written numeral 0-5.

-Count and work with numbers 0-5, using one to-one correspondence.

-Work with numbers up to 5 in a line, circle, and scattered to answer, “How many?”.

-Decompose numbers up to 5 into pairs in more than one way.

-Sort objects into given categories with 10 or less and compare group sizes.

Second Nine Weeks

Language Arts:

-Write last name.

-Know various text features (title page, table of contents, glossary, etc.).

-Produce rhyming words.

-Define the role of author and illustrator in a text.

-With prompting and support, identify the setting in a story.

-Demonstrate basic knowledge of one-to-one letter sound, by producing the primary sound of each given consonant.

-Demonstrate understanding of frequently occurring verbs and adjectives by relating them to their opposites.

-Isolate and pronounce the initial sounds in consonant-vowel-consonant words.

-With prompting and support, use a drawing to tell about a topic (opinion, informative, and narrative).

Math:

-Count to 60 by ones.

-Count backward from 10.

-Count to 100 by 10’s.

-Write numbers 0-10. Represent a number of objects with a written numeral 0-10.

-Understand the relationship between numbers and quantities for values 0-10 (includes one-to-one correspondence and recognizing that the last number name said tells the number of objects counted).

-Work with numbers 0-10 in a line, array, and circle to answer, “How many?”.

-Recognize that each successive number name refers to a quantity that is one greater.

-Describe shapes in the environment by their position such as above, below, beside, in front of, behind, between, and next to.

-Correctly name two and three-dimensional shapes regardless of orientation or size.

-Identify shapes as two-dimensional or three-dimensional.

-Describe similarities and differences between the shapes.

-Describe measurable attributes of objects, such as length or weight.

-Directly compare two objects with a measurable attribute, to see which object has more of/less of the attribute, and describe the difference.

Third Nine Weeks

Language Arts:

-Add or substitute individual sounds in simple, one syllable words to make new words.

-Isolate and pronounce the final sounds in consonant-vowel-consonants words.

-Associate the long and short sounds for the five major vowels.

-Recognize and name end punctuation.

-With prompting and support, use a combination of drawing and labeling to tell about a topic (opinion, informative, and narrative).

-Print upper and lower case letters.

-With prompting and support, identify the major events in a story.

-With prompting and support, describe the relationship between illustrations and the text in which they appear.

Math:

-Count to 80 by ones.

-Count to 100 by 5’s.

-Identify whether the number of objects in one group is greater than, less than, or equal to the number of objects in another group.

-Compare two numbers up to 10 presented as written numerals, using the terms, greater than, less than, or equal to.

-Decompose numbers up to 10 into pairs in more than one way.

-Represent addition and subtraction with objects, fingers, mental images, drawings, sounds, acting out situations, verbal.

-Add and subtract within 10 to solve contextual problems using objects or drawings to represent the problem.

Fourth Nine Weeks

Language Arts:

-With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text (literary and informational).

-Isolate and pronounce the medial vowel in consonant-vowel-consonant words.

-Spell simple words phonetically, drawing on knowledge of letter sound relationships.

-Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills to decode words.

-Retell familiar text with key details.

-Compare and contrast familiar texts.

-Capitalize the first word in a sentence and the pronoun, I.

-With prompting and support, use a combination of drawing, dictation, and writing to tell about a topic (opinion, informative, and narrative).

-Write the letter for each given sound.

-Decode CVC words.

Math:

-Count to 100 by ones.

-Count forward from a given number up to 100. -Write numbers 0-20. Represent a number of objects within a written numeral 0-20.

-Count and work with numbers 0-20 (includes one-to-one correspondence).

-Work with numbers 0-20 in a line, scattered, array, and a circle to answer, “How many?”.

-Model shapes in the world by drawing 2D shapes and building 3D shapes.

-Compose larger shapes, using simple shapes and identify smaller shapes within larger shapes.

-For any number 1-9, find the number that makes 10 when added to a given number.

-Fluently add within 10 using mental strategies.

-Fluently subtract within 10 using mental strategies.

-Compose and decompose numbers from 11-19 into ten ones and some more ones.

-Identify the penny, nickel, dime, and quarter and recognize the value of each.