“A Exemplary District”
Medina Valley Independent School District
8449 FM 471 S Castroville, Texas 78009 830-931-2243 830-931-4050 FAX
In Kindergarten Language Arts, your child will have an opportunity to:
LISTENING/SPEAKING. Students will:
Listen
to information, rhymes, songs, conversations, and stories
Listen and talk
about experiences, customs, and cultures
Make
announcements, give directions, and make introductions
Act out plays,
poems, and stories
Clearly request,
retell, and/or describe stories and experiences
Listen
responsively to contemporary and classic stories and other texts read
aloud
READING. Students will:
Recognize that print represents spoken language and conveys meaning,
such as their own name, and signs such as Exit and Danger
Recognize upper
and lower case letters in print and understand that print represents
language
Manipulate sounds in spoken works (phonemic awareness)
Decode simple
words using letter-sound knowledge
Identify words
that name persons, places or things and words that name actions
Learn new
vocabulary words through selections read aloud
Retell or act
our important events in a story
Gather important
information and ask relevant questions
WRITING. Students will:
Write their own name and each letter of the alphabet
Write messages
using their knowledge of letters and sounds
Record or
dictate questions, ideas, and stories
Write labels,
notes, and captions for illustrations, possessions, charts, and centers
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