– Alphabetic Principle
– Phonological Awareness
– Vocabulary
– Fluency
– Comprehension
– Shared Reading
– Shared Writing
– Reading and Writing Aloud
– CAFE Strategies
– Sight Word Wall

• Mini lesson
 Whole groups
 Shared Writing
 Introduces writing strategies
• Independent Writing
 “Inventive spelling”
 Working on individual goals
 Small groups and individual conferences
• Share Time

Rubric Score
Not evident
– Illegible
– Random or multiple topics addressed
– Does not engage in any type of writing

Writing Example
Rubric Score
Emerging
• Drawing
– Focuses on one topic
– Discernible setting and/or character
– No or limited detail
• Writing
– Attempts to form letters
– Separates writing from drawing
– Initial sounds may be represented in letter strings

Writing Example
Rubric Score
Developing
• Drawing
– Focuses on one topic
– Discernible setting and character with some detail
– OR strong detail is used in either character or setting
• Writing
– Attempts to form words through some letter sound relationships
– Some words may be decipherable
– Separates writing from drawing
– May copy words or use pattern sentences (I like…)

Writing Example
Rubric Score
Strong
• Drawing
– Focuses on one topic
– Clear discernible setting and character
– Multiple detail is used in both character and setting
• Writing
– Uses initial and final sounds in all words to create a complete thought
– Connection between drawing and writing on topic
– Spaces are used between words
– Two or more complete thoughts are written

The Daily 5 is a structured language arts framework that helps students develop the daily habits of reading, writing, and working with peers that will lead to a lifetime of independent literacy. The 5 elements that students participate in are: Read to Self, Read with Someone,
Listen to Reading, Word Work and Work on Writing. In our kindergarten classroom, the children will choose one of the five during three different rounds.

Read to Self
Students each have a book box full of “just right" books that they read from during read to self.
Read to Someone
Students can practice developing their fluency by reading to someone.
Work on Writing
Students work on original stories, lists, poems, letters, etc... during work on writing.
Word Work
Students use various manipulatives and materials to practice their sight words and word patterns.
Listen to Reading
Students use CD players, computers, and tape players to listen to fluent reading.

• CAFE is an acronym for Comprehension,
Accuracy, Fluency, and Expanding Vocabulary, and the system includes goal-setting with students in individual conferences.
• Developing small group instruction based on clusters of students with similar goals and targeting whole-class instruction based on emerging student needs and fine tuning one on one conferring.

Comprehension
I understand what I read
Strategies
~Parts of a book
~Check for understanding
~Make predictions
~Identify character emotions
~Connect to a story
~Back-up and reread
Retell a story
Accuracy
I can read the words
Strategies
~Use the pictures
~Get your mouth ready
~Think about what make sense
~Cross Check (Does it look right, sound right and make sense?)
~Slow check to the end
~Identify fiction and nonfiction
~Flip the sound
~Stretch and blend
~If I know ____then I know ______
Fluency
I can read accurately, with expression, and understand what I read
Strategies
~Voracious reader
~Recognize sight words
~Read punctuation
~Read like a storyteller
~Read "Just Right Books"
Expand Vocabulary
I know, find, and use interesting words
Strategies
~Listen for interesting words
Behaviors That Support Reading
*Get started right away *Stay in one spot *Work quietly *Read the whole time
*Increase stamina *Select and read good-fit books

• Will begin when your child has an appropriate foundation of pre-reading skills.
• Leveled fiction and nonfiction texts
• Books will come home in book bags to be read at home to family
• The books are property of Adkins and cost $10 each if lost or damaged

• Your child will learn new sight words each week.
• Please practice reading and writing these words with your child frequently.
• They will be assessed on these words throughout the year.
• Sight Words are listed on the newsletter weekly.

Math
• Problem Solving
– justifying solution, determining a solution, reasonableness, selecting correct tools
• Number and Operations
– counting, composing & decomposing numbers, simple addition & subtraction, subitizing
• Geometry
– 2D & 3D shapes
• Measurement
– weight, capacity, length, height, more & less
• Data Analysis
– Collect, sort, & organize data into two or three categories
• Personal Financial Literacy
– Identifying names of coins & how to earn income

•Introduction
•Pose the problem
•Investigate possible solutions
•Hands-on activities and games
•Manipulatives
•Small Groups
•Practice previous concepts
•Discussion
•Correcting misconceptions
•Discuss different solutions, strategies and methods
•Justify thinking

• Government (Rules and Laws)
• Celebrate Freedom Week (US
Constitution, the Texas pledge, &
US pledge)
• Geography (Maps, Globes &
Landforms)
• Holidays
• Customs and Traditions of people in the community
• Jobs
• Good Citizens (Stephen F. Austin &
George Washington)

• Research
• Properties of Objects
• Weather and Seasons
• Animal Parts
• Force and Motion
• Basic Needs of Animals and Plants
• Parts of Plants
• Healthy Behaviors & Dental Health
• Rocks and Soil
• Objects in the Sky

• What I Think I know
• What I Learned &
New Learning
(Research)
• What I Wonder

• Lunch is from 11:00-11:30
– Must check at the office to eat with your child at the reserved parent table
– You may eat with your child only
– Please continue to work with your child on independent eating skills.
• Recess is from 10:40-11:00
– Tennis shoes are the best footwear

• All important information, such as school wide notices, PTA event flyers, etc. will come home on Friday.
• Weekly newsletters will be emailed every Friday for the upcoming week.
• Email is the best way to contact us. We will not answer the phone during instruction.
• Check and empty the folder every day.

• You may send a birthday snack (cookies, brownies, cupcakes, donuts) to school with your child on their birthday.
• We will eat the snack during our normal snack time.
• No drinks, plates, napkins, or goodie bags should be sent.
• Please do not send birthday party invitations to be distributed at school UNLESS ALL children (boys and girls) in the class receive an invitation

• Pumpkin Patch on Tuesday, October 27 th
• Frank Buck Zoo on Friday, April 22 nd
• Background Check MUST be completed and approved to chaperone
• Chaperone Responsibilities
– No siblings if attending as a chaperone
– Will be responsible for a small group of children
• More information to come!

• Your child will need his/her backpack and folder every day.
• If there is a change in
TRANSPORTATION, a parent must send a note, email or call the office.
• Students may come to class at 7:35 and instruction begins at 7:50.
• Please send a healthy quick to eat snack
(nothing that requires utensils) everyday.
• Water, no juice, for snack.
• Your child may bring a water bottle to keep in the classroom.

– Sent home in GO folder on Monday

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Don’t forget to sign up tonight for your parent/teacher conference.
www.dentonisd.org