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.
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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
(A) listen actively and ask questions to understand information and answer questions using multi-word responses;
19 TAC 110.2(b)(1)(A)
(B) restate and follow oral directions that involve a short, related sequence of actions;
19 TAC 110.2(b)(1)(B)
(C) share information and ideas by speaking audibly and clearly using the conventions of language;
19 TAC 110.2(b)(1)(C)
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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.3/27 practiced
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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.