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Kindergarten 19 TAC §110.2 90 student expectations 10 activities

Kindergarten Reading & Writing

Kindergarten reading is about sounds and stories. Your child learns that spoken words are made of sounds, that letters stand for those sounds, and that print carries meaning. Read-alouds do the heavy lifting: talking about characters, where a story happens, and what problem gets solved builds comprehension long before independent reading.

Practice activities

📖Sounds, Letters, and BooksClap syllables, spell simple words by their sounds, know your sight words, hold a book the right way, and use pictures and picture dictionaries to learn new words.
🦁Sound SafariBeginning sounds and rhymes.
🔊Sound PlayWords in a sentence, syllables, and putting sounds together to make words.
🚀Typing Rocket: LettersFind each letter on the keyboard to fuel the rocket: home row first, then every letter, then big and small letters.
🧺Word Catch: Letter SoundsCatch the letter that starts the picture word, and match big and small letters.
🧪Letter Sound LabSound out short words, change one letter to make a new word, spell simple words, and know letters from words.
🤝Reading TogetherWith a grown-up: why we read, questions, predictions, pictures in your mind, connections, clues, the big idea, and telling about a book with words, pictures, and evidence.
📖Read It TogetherRetell a story, hear the rhyme in a nursery rhyme, use titles and pictures, follow steps, and start sentences right.
📚Story PartsCharacters, setting, problem, and ending. Read the little stories aloud together.
🖍️Authors and WritersKinds of stories, what a persuasive text wants, planning and fixing our own writing, sentences, naming words, action words, and finding out about a topic.

The learning path

One stop per unit. Filled stops have practice activities today.

1Developing and sustaining foundational language skills: listening, speaking, discussion, and thinking--oral language. Th2Developing and sustaining foundational language skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking--beginning r3Developing and sustaining foundational language skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking--vocabulary.4Developing and sustaining foundational language skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking--self-sustai5Comprehension skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts. The student uses metacog6Response skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts. The student responds to an in7Multiple genres: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts--literary elements. The studen8Multiple genres: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts--genres. The student recognize9Author's purpose and craft: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts. The student uses c10Composition: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts--writing process. The student uses11Composition: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts--genres. The student uses genre ch12Inquiry and research: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts. The student engages in b

Units and standards preview

The knowledge-and-skills strands below are the state's, reproduced from English Language Arts and Reading, Kindergarten, Adopted 2017. Open a unit to read each student expectation and jump to the activities that practice it.

1Developing and sustaining foundational language skills: listening, speaking, discussion, and thinking--oral language. The student develops oral language through listening, speaking, and discussion.0/5 practiced
  1. (A) listen actively and ask questions to understand information and answer questions using multi-word responses;
    19 TAC 110.2(b)(1)(A)
  2. (B) restate and follow oral directions that involve a short, related sequence of actions;
    19 TAC 110.2(b)(1)(B)
  3. (C) share information and ideas by speaking audibly and clearly using the conventions of language;
    19 TAC 110.2(b)(1)(C)
  4. + 2 more expectations for members
2Developing and sustaining foundational language skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking--beginning reading and writing. The student develops word structure knowledge through phonological awareness, print concepts, phonics, and morphology to communicate, decode, and spell.26/27 practiced
  1. (A) demonstrate phonological awareness by:
    19 TAC 110.2(b)(2)(A)
    📖 Sounds, Letters, and Books
  2. (A.i) identifying and producing rhyming words;
    19 TAC 110.2(b)(2)(A)(i)
    🦁 Sound Safari
  3. (A.ii) recognizing spoken alliteration or groups of words that begin with the same spoken onset or initial sound;
    19 TAC 110.2(b)(2)(A)(ii)
    🦁 Sound Safari
  4. + 24 more expectations for members

10 more units, 90 expectations, 10 activities

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How to help at home

Read aloud every day and stop to ask: who is this about, where are they, what went wrong?
Play with sounds in the car: rhyming words, first sounds, clapping syllables.
Let your child see you write: a grocery list, a note, a text. Talk about the letters as you go.

Source: Texas Education Agency, Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills, 19 TAC §110.2. Curriculum text on this site is reproduced from the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills as published by the Texas Education Agency and codified in Title 19 of the Texas Administrative Code. Baccare is an independent product of Brigade Management, Inc. and is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by the Texas Education Agency, the State Board of Education, or the Texas Secretary of State. Sources and attribution.

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Course details

  • GradeKindergarten
  • SubjectReading & Writing
  • Standard19 TAC §110.2
  • Units12
  • Expectations90
  • Activities10
  • PriceFree to play
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