Kindergarten Common Core State Standards

to be Covered
Subject Area

Reading
&
Literature

Writing

First Semester

Second Semester

Reading- Print Concepts;

Recognize spoken words correspond
to printed words
Recognizes and names upper and
lower case letters
Phonological Awareness:
Understanding of spoken words,
syllables and sounds
Decode grade level words
Associate sounds with letters
Literature- Key Ideas and Details:
Literature- Key Ideas and Details:
Retell familiar stories
Ask and answer questions about key
details in a text
Identify characters and setting
Craft and Structure:
Ask and answer questions about
unknown words in a text
Identify common types of text and
parts of a book
Name and define the roles of a
texts author and illustrator
Integration of Knowledge and Ideas:
Using pictures and titles to make
predictions about texts
Compare and contrast texts on the
same topic and characters in
familiar stories
Text Types and Purposes:
Text Types and Purposes:
Write for different purposes
Write for different purposes
(narrative, informative, opinion)
Production an Distribution of Writing;
Production an Distribution of Writing;
Add details
Add details
Explore and use digital tools to
produce and publish writing
Research to Build and Present
Knowledge:
Participate in group projects
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Speaking and
Listening

Cont.
Speaking and
Listening

Math

Comprehension and Collaboration:

Participate and collaborate in small
and larger groups
Conform understanding of a text
read aloud by asking/answering
questions
Ask and respond to questions
Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas:
Describe familiar people, places,
things and events
Describe visual display with
appropriate details
Express ideas clearly
Speak audibly
Conventions of Standard English:
Use appropriate grammar when
speaking
Counting and Cardinality:
Count to 100 by ones and tens
Count forward beginning from a
given number
Count to answer how many
Identify whether the number of
objects in a group is greater than,
less than, or equal to the number
of objects in another group
Represent a number of objects with
a written numeral 0-20
Write numbers from 0-20
Understand the relationship
between numbers and quantities
Operations and Algebraic Thinking:
Addition

Geometry:
Describe objects in the environment
using names of shapes
Describe positions of objects using
positional terms such as above,

Operations and Algebraic Thinking:

Addition
Subtraction
Decompose numbers less than 10
into pairs in more than one way
(5=2+3, 5=4+1)
Geometry
Identify shapes as twodimensional (flat) or threedimensional (solid)
Analyze and compare 2-D and
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below, beside, in front of, behind

Model shapes in the world by
building shapes from
components(e.g. sticks and clay)
and drawing shapes
Compose simple shapes to form
larger shapes(e.g. joining two
triangles with full sides touching to
make a rectangle)

Measurement and Data:

Compare and order objects
according to attributes

Science

Cont.
Science

Earth and Space Science:

Report & describe weather changes
from day to day & over seasons
Scientific Inquiry:
Use senses to make observations
Collect data about living and nonliving things
Nature of Science:
Identify different types of
technologies in the classroom that
are related between subjects
Organisms and the Environment:
Identify similarities and differences
between plants and animals
Structure and Function in Organisms:
Identify similarities and differences
between living and non-living things

Historical Understanding:
Explain change and continuity over
time using visual aids
Political Science/Civics: Governance,
Democracy and Interaction:

3-D shapes

Number and Operations in Base Ten:

Compose and decompose
numbers- understand that these
numbers are composed of ten
ones and one, two, three, etc,
ones

Earth and Space Science:

Identify different types of
celestial objects seen in day and
night sky
Scientific Inquiry:
Use senses to make observations
Asks questions about the world
Collect data about living and
non-living things
Organisms and the Environment:
Identify similarities an differences
between plants and animals
Structure and Function in Organisms:
Identify differences between
lining and non-living things
Nature of Matter & Energy:
Classify and compare objects by
attributes
Forces an Motion:
Identify that objects will fall
Diversity, Genetics, and Evolution:
Identify how offspring are very
much but not exactly like parents
Political Science/Civics: Participation and
Citizenship:
Describe his or her rights and
demonstrate responsibilities of self
in classroom, school, and
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Social Studies

Health

Identify rules that apply in different

settings and the consequences
Historical Understanding:
Describe historically significant
events and observances in
American history
Geography: World in Spatial Terms:
Identify location and physical
characteristics represented on maps
and globes
Economics: Resources, Markets, and
Government:
Explain peoples basic needs and
how they fulfill them
Differentiate buyers and sellers
Describe appropriate ways to express
feelings
Use effective and appropriate ways to
express feelings, wants, and needs
Explain the benefits of exercise

neighborhood settings
Cultural Anthropology: Systems,
Dynamics, and Inquiry:
Explain how and why people from
different cultures observe
different holidays/celebrations
Geography: World in Spatial Terms:
Use terms to describe relative
location and use positional words

Describe how to be a good friend

and responsible family member
Describe barriers and situations that
are safe, risky, or harmful to self and
others
Describe the benefits associated with
personal cleanliness

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