Grade K Skill Guide

           WSSU GRADE K SKILL GUIDE v.9.16.15   (Downloadable PDF click here)

READING
Identifies key ideas of text
Identify characters, setting and major events in a story with prompting and support
Retell familiar stories, including key details, with prompting and support
Ask and answer questions about key details of text with prompting and support
Compares relationships or actions from text
Compare and contrast adventures and experiences of characters in familiar stories with prompting and
Identify basic similarities and differences in texts with prompting and support
Knows and applies phonics and decoding when reading
Ask and answer questions about unknown words in a text with prompting and support
Recognize and name all upper and lowercase letters
Recognize and produce rhyming words
Produce the primary sound for each consonant
Associate the long and short sounds for the five major vowels
Follow words from left to right, top to bottom and page by page
Isolate and pronounce the initial, medial vowel and final sounds in CVC words. (cat, dog)
Decode words with short vowels
Read common high-frequency words
Read emergent reader texts with purpose and understanding (level D)
Identifies and understands text features
Recognize common types of text
Identify parts of a book (cover, title page, etc.)
Name the author and illustrator of a text and define the role of each
WRITING
Can write on a topic using descriptive details to support main idea
Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to compose opinion pieces
Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to compose informative/explanatory pieces
Uses appropriate mechanics in writing
Print many upper and lower case letters using correct formation, size, and spacing
Capitalize the first word in a sentence and the pronoun “I”
Recognize and name end punctuation (.!?)
Spell simple words phonetically, drawing on knowledge of sound-letter relationships
Use a variety of digital tools to produce and publish writing
MATHEMATICS
Knows number names
Write numerals from 0-20
Read numerals from 0-20
Can count appropriately for grade level
Count to 100 by ones
Count to 100 by tens
Count forward by ones from any given number
Count backward by ones from 20
Can tell the number of objects
Count each object and know the last number said is how many there are in a group
Move the same objects around and know that I have the same number
Compares numbers
Count by ones and know that the next number I say is one more
Tell if one group of objects is greater than, less than or equal to another group of objects
Understands addition as putting together and adding to
Use a strategy to solve addition problems and communicate about my strategy
Decompose numbers from 0-10
Make combinations of 5
Make combinations of 10
Understands subtraction as taking apart and taking from
Use a strategy to solve subtraction problems and communicate about my strategy
Can identify and describe shapes
Identify and describe basic shapes
Compose simple shapes
Identify shapes as two-dimensional or three dimensional
Student is able to describe and compare measureable attributes
Describe measurable attributes of objects such as length or weight
Compare two objects and see which has more or less of a measurable attribute (weight or length)
Sort objects into categories/groups
Count and compare items in groups
KINDERGARTEN SKILLS THAT ARE INTRODUCED ONLY
Recognize common types of text
Identify parts of a book (cover, title page, etc.)
Name the author and illustrator of a text and define the role of each
Count backward by ones from 20
Record my thinking by using different ways (objects, drawing, equations, etc.) and communicate thinking
Show how many tens and ones are in a number 11-19 (using object or drawings)