• Read 80-100 Kindergarten Sight Words (see OCPS sight word list link).
  
  
• Identify all uppercase and lowercase letters.
  
  
• Identify all letters and their sounds.
  
  
• Read at Fountas and Pinnell Level D.
  
  
• Follow 2-step oral directions (turn off the light and shut the door, etc.).
  
  
• Write his/her first and last name correctly with capital and lowercase letters (Sam, not SAM).
  
  
• Write a simple sentence that begins with a capital, ends with a period, has spaces in between words, and has a detailed illustration to match.
  
  

• Read ALL Kindergarten Sight Words and 80-100 First Grade Sight Words (see OCPS sight word list link).

• Read at Fountas and Pinnell Level I or J.
  
  
• Read fluently (60 correct words per minute).
  
  
• Demonstrate knowledge of the concept of print and how it is organized and read.
  
  
• Demonstrate the ability to separate and identify sounds in words (phonemic awareness).
  
  
• Demonstrate the knowledge of the alphabetic principle and applies grade-level phonics skills to read text.
  
  
• Demonstrate the ability to read grade-level text orally with accuracy, appropriate fluency (rate) and expression.
  
  
• Develop grade-appropriate vocabulary.
  
  
• Identify, analyze, and apply knowledge of the elements of a variety of fiction, nonfiction, informational, and/or expository texts.
  
  
• Show mastery of all Reading Literature (RL), Reading Informational (RI) and Reading Foundational (RF) Florida State Standards.
  
  
• Use pre-writing strategies independently (such as brainstorming, graphic organizers such as circle maps and tree maps, etc.).
  
  
• Participate in the writing process through whole group, small group, and independent writing
  Create Informative/Expository, Narrative and Opinion pieces of writing.
  
  
• Use appropriate spacing between letters, words, and sentences.
  
  
• Apply listening and speaking strategies.
  
  
• Show mastery of all Foundational Skills, Reading, Communication, and Vocabulary of the Florida B.E.S.T. Standards.

• Read a Variety of Texts: Build an at-home library of children’s stories, non-fiction texts, magazines, recipes, comics, etc.
  
  
• Choose Appropriate Books: Help your child pick books that are not too hard but not too easy.
  
  
• Read to Your Child Every Day: Model good reading strategies to your child by reading a few minutes each day.
  
  
• Have Your Child Read to You Every Day: Spend 15-20 minutes listening to your child read to you before they are tired.
  
  
• Talk About It: Ask your child questions about what they read.
  
  
• Have them retell the story in their own words including a description of the characters and setting and what happens in the book (beginning, middle, end, problem, solution).
  
  
• Practice Text Tracking: If your child is an early reader, encourage them to point to each word.
  
  
• Reread Favorite Books: Repeat favorite books over and over to build reading fluency.
  
  
• Reading Apps: Download reading apps for your device.
  
  
• Practice Decoding Strategies: If your child is having trouble figuring out a word, remind them of the following strategies:
  • Eagle Eye-Look at the pictures for clues.
  • Lips the Fish-Get your lips ready and say the first sound.
  • Stretchy Snake-Stretch out the sounds and then shrink them back together.
  • Chunky Monkey-Look for chunks in the word that you know and then blend the words together.
  • Skippy Frog-Skip the word and then go back and re-read.
  • Tryin’ Lion-Try it again.
  • Helpful Kangaroo-Ask for help!

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Click the button below to access the Florida B.E.S.T. ELA standards.

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• Identify and read numbers from 0-20.
  
  
• Accurately count up to 20 objects.
  
  
• Count orally to 100.
  
  
• Know basic Addition and Subtraction facts through 10.
  
  
• Know basic two-dimensional shapes.
  
  
• Skip count by 10’s.
  
  
• Show mastery of all Kindergarten Florida Standards and Next Generation Sunshine State Standards.

• Model addition and subtraction situations using a variety of strategies.
  
  
• Identify, describe, and apply addition and subtraction as inverse operations.
  
  
• Create and use increasingly sophisticated strategies, and use properties such as commutative, associative and additive identity, to add whole numbers.
  
  
• Use counting strategies, number patterns, and models as a means for solving basic addition and subtraction fact problems.
  
  
• Compare and order whole numbers at least to 100.
  
  
• Represent two-digit numbers in terms of tens and ones.
  
  
• Orders counting numbers, compare their relative magnitudes (size) and represent numbers on a number line.
  
  
• Use appropriate vocabulary to compare shapes.
  
  
• Compose (join) and decompose (take apart) plane and solid figures.
  
  
• Compare and order objects according to descriptors.
  
  
• Use mathematical reasoning and beginning understanding of tens and ones.
  
  
• Solve routine and non-routine problems by acting them out, using manipulatives, and drawing diagrams.
  
  
• Show mastery of all B.E.S.T. standards in the areas of Number Sense and Operations, Fractions, Algebraic Reasoning, Measurement, Geometric Reasoning, and Data Analysis and Probability.
  
  

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