Kindergarten Standards: Quarter 3

Reading Foundational Skills

K.RF.2.1
K.RF.2.4
K.RF.4.4
K.RF.2.3
K.RF.3.2
K.RF.3.3
K.RF.4.1
K.RF.3.1
K.RF.4.3
K.RF.5

I understand that print moves left to right across the page from
top to bottom.
I can name all uppercase and lowercase letters of the alphabet.
I can read quarter 1, quarter 2, and quarter 3 high-frequency
words by sight.
I understand that words are combined to form sentences.
I can point to individual words one by one when reading.
I can pronounce, blend, and segment words into syllables.
I can orally blend the beginning, middle, and end sounds in a
word.
I can use letter-sound knowledge to decode the sound of each
consonant.
I can identify and produce rhyming words.
I can identify the short sounds for the 5 major vowels (a, e, i, o, u)
I can read appropriate emergent-reader texts, maintaining an
appropriate pace and using self-correcting strategies when
reading.

Reading Informational Text/ Literature

K.RL.3.2
K.RL.1
K.RL.2.2
K.RL.2.3

I can tell what an author and illustrator does.

I can use pictures, stretching words, chunks, and one to one
matching as reading strategies to figure out unknown words.
I can actively engage in group activities with purpose and
understanding.
I can retell familiar stories, poems, or nursery rhymes (including
key details).
I can identify important elements of the text (e.g., characters,
settings, or events).

Writing/ Language Skills

K.W.3.3
K.W.6.2.
a
K.W.6.2.
c

I can draw a picture/ write to tell someone about a topic.

I can write my first and last name using an uppercase letter at the
beginning only (complete first name).
I can spell simple words phonetically, drawing on letter-sound
relationships.
I can use words and pictures to show the main idea and provide
K.W.3.2
information about a story read.
K.W.2.1
I can write all of my upper- and lowercase letters without a model.
K.W.6.1a I can write simple, complete sentences that include nouns and
&K.W.6b verbs.
I can identify adjectives and their opposites.

Speaking and Listening Skills

These standards are from Quarter 1, 2, and 3. The goal is for your
child to receive mastery in all of these standards by the end of
kindergarten.

Kindergarten Standards: Quarter 3

K.SL.1
K.RL.2.4
K.RL.3.2
K.SL.2.1

K.SL.4.3

I can listen actively and communicate effectively with a variety of

audiences and for different purposes.
I can ask questions to seek help, get information, or clarify
something that is not understood.
I can ask appropriate questions about what a speaker says.
I can participate in collaborative conversations about gradeappropriate topics and texts with peers and adults in large/small
groups.
I can give, restate, and follow two-step directions.

Counting and Cardinality

K.NS.1
K.NS.1
K.NS.4
K.NS.2
K.NS.2
K.NS.7

I can count to 100 by ones.

I can count to 100 by tens.
I can say the number name while counting.
I can recognize numbers 0-20.
I can write numbers 0-20 in order.
I can identify a group of objects as being greater than, less than,
or equal to another group of objects.

Operations and Algebraic Thinking

K.CA.1
K.CA.3
-

I can use objects, drawings, mental images, and sounds to

represent addition and subtraction within 10.
I can use objects, drawings, etc., to decompose numbers less than
or equal to 10 and record (e.g., 5=3+2 and 5=4+1)
I can fluently add within 5.

Measurement and Data

K.DA.1
K.CA.5

K.M.1

I can identify, sort, and classify objects by size, number, and other
attributes.
I can create, extend, and give a rule for simple repeating and
growing patterns with numbers and shapes.
I can make comparisons of the length, capacity, weight, and
temperature of objects, and recognize which object is shorter,
longer, taller, lighter, heavier, warmer, cooler, or holds more.

Geometry
K.G.2

K.G.1

K.G.2

I can identify, name, and describe 2-D shapes (squares, circles,

triangles, rectangles, hexagons) in different sizes and directions.
I can describe the position of objects and geometric shapes using
the words inside, outside, between, above, below, near, far, under,
over, up, down, behind, in front of, next to, to the left of, and to
the right of.
I can identify and name 3-D shapes (sphere, cube, pyramid,
rectangular prism, cone).

These standards are from Quarter 1, 2, and 3. The goal is for your
child to receive mastery in all of these standards by the end of
kindergarten.