Kindergarten English Language Arts
13 units matched to the Prince Edward Island Curriculum. Kids see this subject as “Letters & Words”.
Learning focus
- Oral Language - Speaking & Listening. Students will speak and listen to explore, extend, clairfy, and reflect on their thoughts, ideas, feelings, and experiences.
- Reading and Viewing. Students will be expected to select, read, and view with understanding a range of literature, information, media, and visual texts.
- Writing and Representing. Students will be expected to use writing and other forms of representation to explore, clarify, and reflect on their thoughts, feelings, experiences, and learnings; and to use their imaginations.
Units
Unit 1
Listening & Talking
Practises what a good listener looks like, asking who, what and where questions, speaking in whole sentences, and choosing a voice and words that suit the listener. Take turns chatting with your child and ask them to say back what they heard.
Curriculum outcome: 1.2; 1.3; 1.5; 1.9 · listening well, asking who, what and where questions, and speaking in whole sentences
Unit 2
Talk & Listen
Chat about the day, ask your child to answer in a whole sentence, and let them ask you questions. Poems and rhymes are great practice too.
Curriculum outcome: 1.2; 1.5; 1.8 · taking turns, listening to others and sharing ideas in a group
Unit 3
Clap the Beat
Breaking words into syllables (ba-na-na) by clapping. Clap along out loud: one clap for each part you hear.
Curriculum outcome: 2.2 · clapping the parts of a word to count its syllables
Unit 4
Rhyme Time
Hearing rhymes (cat, hat) and spotting a word that doesn't rhyme. Rhyming games build the listening skills behind reading.
Curriculum outcome: 2.3 · hearing rhymes and spotting the word that does not rhyme
Unit 5
First Sounds
Hearing the first sound in a word (b in bus) and linking it to its letter. Say the words out loud together and stretch out the first sound.
Curriculum outcome: 2.4; 3.6; 4.8 · hearing the first sound in a word and linking it to its letter
Unit 6
Blend a Word
Listening for the sounds in a word, blending them to read it, and counting the sounds in words.
Curriculum outcome: 2.4; 3.6 · blending sounds to read a word and counting the sounds in it
Unit 7
Picture Clues
Using the picture and the first letter to read a word or a short sentence, a key early reading strategy.
Curriculum outcome: 3.4 · using pictures and first letters to work out a word or sentence
Unit 8
Sight Words
Recognizing common words such as the, see, can and my, plus colour and number words, by looking closely at their letters.
Curriculum outcome: 3.8; 4.9 · recognizing common sight words such as the, see, can and my
Unit 9
Book Detectives
How print works: telling letters, numbers, words and sentences apart, reading left to right and top to bottom, counting words, and what authors and illustrators do.
Curriculum outcome: 3.2; 3.13; 4.5; 4.11 · how print works: letters, words, spaces, reading direction, author and title
Unit 10
Think About a Book
Practises what readers do before, during and after a book: using the cover and what they already know to predict, making connections to their own lives, asking questions, seeing themselves in books, and noticing that people can respond differently to the same text.
Curriculum outcome: 3.10; 3.11; 3.12 · predicting, making connections and asking questions about books and other texts
Unit 11
Story Order
Putting events in order, and listening to short stories to tell what happened at the beginning, middle and end.
Curriculum outcome: 3.10 · retelling a story in order: beginning, middle and end
Unit 12
Letter Partners
Matching capital (big) letters with their lowercase (small) partners, including look-alikes such as b, d, p and q.
Curriculum outcome: 3.9; 4.7 · matching capital letters with their lowercase partners
Unit 13
Capitals, Periods & Planning
Practises capital letters for names, I and the start of a sentence, periods and exclamation marks, five- or six-word sentences, planning a piece of writing by drawing or talking, putting ideas in order, simple text forms such as lists, letters, stories and information, and changing a piece after feedback.
Curriculum outcome: 4.3; 4.7; 4.10 · capital letters, periods and short sentences, and planning what to write
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