Oercommons.org: Grade Kindergarten
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ELA
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School-Home Link Reading Kit
FreeReading Intervention A
Common Core Curriculum:
Kindergarten ELA: Listening
and Learning Strand
L.K.1a, L.K.2c,L.K.4a, L.K.5a RF.K.1a,
RF.K.1b, RF.K.1c, R.K.1d, RF.K.2a,
RF.K.2bRF.K.2c, RF.K.2d, RF.K.2e,
RF.K.3a, RF.K.3,
RF.K.2a, RF.K.2b, RF.K.2c, RF.K.2d,
RF.K.2e
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SL.K.2
SL.K.3
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SL.K.4
SL.K.5
SL.K.6
Literacy.SL.K.1a
Literacy.SL.K.1b
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Resource provides teachers with supporting materials that can be used to
engage parents as partners in the education of their child. Teachers send
home the Home Links Parent/Family letter with simple directions and
downloadable materials after a lesson. Activities focus on Foundational
Skills standards (e.g. phonological awareness, letter naming, phonics) as
well as Language standards (vocabulary). Writing focuses on letter
formation and copying words. Ease of use for both teachers and parents.
This site provides links to scripted intervention lessons in early reading
skills. Lessons explicitly teach the skills through engaging activities that
can be done with minimal materials and prep. Resource can be used to
support a Response to Intervention support program.
Resources included are from the New York State Common Core curriculum;
includes anthologies as well as accompanying lesson plans that can be
downloaded and used to supplement current curriculum. Downloadable
lessons integrate ELA listening and speaking skills with science and social
studies content. Topics include literature, rhymes, fables as well as social
studies and science themes. Also included are materials needed for
lessons including Flip books and image cards.
Lesson Plans also include:
Different levels of comprehension questions from literacy to
evaluative.
Vocabulary
Listening and echoing activities
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The Very Hungry Teacher
Teaching Reading K-2: A
Library of Classroom
Practices (videos)
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W.K.3
W.K.5
W.K.8
RL.K.2
RL.K.3
Focus on teaching reading using various
methodologies
Garden Helpers
W.K.2
RI.K.10
RI.K.1
RI.K.2
Hear It, Spell It, See It
RF.K.3c
K.RFS.1.1
This resource provides an outline of lessons that can be used to support
writing in the classroom beginning with the pre-writing process where
students are asked to create a flow map of the story and then create their
own version of the Hungry Caterpillar. Although the lesson specifically
identifies this as a grade 1 lesson, teachers can use this as a lesson to
model the writing process. Teachers will also need to enhance lessons in
order to explicitly address the kindergarten standards (e.g. use questioning
that focuses on identifying literary elements or to recall sequence of events
in the story).
Depending on the students level of writing ability, students might need
scaffolding support where they write their own story using the story map.
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This video library features 12 half-hour videos that focus on the primary
grade classroom. Teachers highlighted on video demonstrate various
reading strategies. A few of the videos focus on the classroom where ELL
students make-up the classroom population. Videos can be used as part of
a grade level’s professional development session to begin discussion on
best practices.
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This resource focuses on listening comprehension based on non-fiction
texts and completing a performance task related to plants and gardening.
Students write an expository report/book on what they learned during the
unit on plants. Performance tasks play a key role in high stakes testing so
this is a great exposure for students. Explicit directions make it easy for
teachers to implement this integrated unit.
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This is an activity to help children develop visual recognition of basic sight
word vocabulary at the kindergarten Dolch sight word level ( I, am, can, like,
it, is). This simple, quick activity uses the power Point program to display
sight words in context.. Students are then asked to write down the words in
their journals. Lesson has students reading sight word in context first. Sight
word might need to be explicitly taught prior to presentation on Power Point
to ensure students recognize the focus sight word. Teachers can use the
format and write their own sentences that utilize the focus sight word on a
board and have students follow the same instructional sequence.
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Conversations, Questions, and
Answers for a Beginning
Teacher (see below)
Multiple ELA standards
Resource is an article that talks about how a Kindergarten teacher begins
her career with support. The resources aligned to the CCSS can be found
on the left side menu- click on “Lesson Plans”, then scroll down to the “Hot
Topics and Special Collections” section and click on “English Language
Learners” for lesson plans that align to the CCSS. Although the lessons are
identified as grade 1 lessons, many can be adapted to meet the
Kindergarten ELA standards.
CC Tasks: Plants Are All
Around Us! (Grade PK)
Common Core Curriculum:
Kindergarten & Grade 1 ELA:
Skills Strand
Multiple ELA standards (dependent on
lesson selected among the list)
W.K.2, W.K.7, W.K.8, W.K.8
RI.K.1, RI.K.10
Multiple ELA standards (dependent on
lesson selected among the list)
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MCREL
http://www2.mcrel.org/lessonplans/lang/index.asp
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Suggested lesson links:
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Keys to Success for English
Language Learners
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Multiple ELA standards (dependent on
lesson selected among the list)
The Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig
A Planting We Will Go
Animal Adjectives
Fairy Tales
Resource article provides strategies to use when working with English
Language Learners. ELA Lessons plans and other resources address all
learners through a variety of strategies.
Easy to use lessons that focus on plants. Although it states that lessons are
better suited for smaller groups, these lessons can be done with a whole
class. The unit was designed for the preschool level so for Kindergarten,
lessons can be adapted to incorporate more independent expository writing
where students can record their observations or recall and record
information learned through group research and read alouds.
Users will need to go through the various links to view the units and
lessons available. Included on this site are a variety of resources that cover
a multitude of topics including language arts, science and social studies
themes. Anthologies, texts, flip books and other resources provide all the
materials needed to implement the lessons. Workbook available on site
provide standard worksheets that can be used for practice.
Resources developed by the Mid-continent Research for Education and
Learning (McREL. A compendium of content standards and benchmarks for
K-12 education
in both searchable and browsable formats. Resources, including lesson
plans align to the Common Core State Standards.