Northampton County Schools Kindergarten Curriculum Map 2012 – 2013
Timeframe Needed for Completion:
Grading Period: 2nd Nine Weeks
Subject:Language Arts
Grade Level:Kindergarten
Unit Title:Finding Friends/By the Sea/Stick to It
Big Idea/Themes: Friends/Sea Life/Perseverance
Understandings:
 Student s will learn the characteristics of a good friend.
 Students will compare sea life to life on land.
 Students will learn the meaning of perseverance.
Language Arts
Essential Questions:
 What does it mean to be a friend?
 Why is life by the sea so interesting?
 What does it take to reach a goal?
Reading Foundations
Phonics and Word
Recognition
3. Know and apply
grade-level phonics and
word analysis skills in
decoding words.
a.Demonstrate basic
knowledge of one-to-one
letter-sound
correspondence by
producing the primary or
many of the most
frequent sound for each
consonant.
Literature
Key Ideas and Details
2. With prompting and
support, retell familiar
stories, including key
details.
Integration of
Knowledge and Ideas
7. With prompting and
support, describe the
relationship between
illustrations and the
story in which they
appear (e.g., what
moment in a story an
illustration depicts).
Vocabulary:
Perseverance
maps
Ocean
erosion
Goals
commitment
water
Informational Texts
friendship
globes
Speaking/Listening
Integration of
Presentation of
Knowledge and Ideas knowledge and ideas
7. With prompting and
support, describe the
relationship between
illustrations and the
text in which they
appear (e.g., what
person, place, thing, or
idea in the text an
illustration depicts).
5. Add drawings or
other visual displays to
descriptions as desired
to provide additional
detail.
Assessment Tasks:
 Teacher observations
 Reading 3D Next
 Formal/Informal (Weekly)
Writing
Language
Text Types and
Purposes
Vocabulary
Acquisition and Use
1.Use writing to
compose opinion pieces
in which they tell a
reader the topic or the
name of the book they
are writing about and
state an opinion or
preference about the
topic or book (e.g., My
favorite book is…).
4. Determine or
clarify the meaning of
unknown and
multiple-meaning
words and phrases
based on kindergarten
reading and content.
(show less)
a.Identify new
meanings for familiar
words and apply them
accurately (e.g.,
knowing duck is a bird
and learning the verb
to duck).
Text Types and
Purposes
2. Use writing to
Northampton County Schools Kindergarten Curriculum Map 2012 – 2013
compose informative/
explanatory texts in
which they name what
they are writing about
and supply some
information about the
topic.
Text Types and
Purposes
3. Use writing to
narrate a single event or
several loosely linked
events, tell about the
events in the order in
which they occurred,
and provide a reaction
to what happened.
Social Studies
K.G.1.2 Use globes and maps to locate water features.
K.G.1.3 Identify physical features ( mountains, rivers, oceans, hills, lakes).
Vocabulary
Acquisition and Use
5. With guidance and
support from adults,
explore word
relationships and
nuances in word
meanings.
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a.Demonstrate
understanding of
frequently occurring
verbs and adjectives
by relating them to
their opposites
(antonyms).
b.Identify real-life
connections between
words and their use
(e.g., note places at
school that are
colorful).
c.Distinguish shades
of meaning among
verbs describing the
same general action
(e.g., walk, march,
strut, prance) by acting
out the meanings.
Science
K.P.1.1 Compare the relative position of various objects observed in the
classroom and outside using position words such as: in, front of, behind,
Northampton County Schools Kindergarten Curriculum Map 2012 – 2013
between, on top of, under, above, below and beside.
K.P.2.1 Classify objects by observable physical properties (including size, color,
shape, texture, weight and flexibility.)
K.E.1.1 Infer that change is something that happens to many things in the
environment based on observations made using one or more of their senses.