Grade Kindergarten - English Language Arts (2021)

Discover and Explore

Clarify and Extend

Use Strategies and Cues

Respond to Texts

Express ideas and develop understanding

Experiment with language and forms

Express preferences

Set goals

Consider the ideas of others

Combine ideas

Extend understanding

Use prior knowledge

Use comprehension strategies

Use textual cues

Use phonics and structural analysis

Use references

Experience various texts

Construct meaning from texts

Appreciate the artistry of texts

share personal experiences prompted by oral, print and other media texts

talk about ideas, experiences and familiar events

talk and represent to explore, express and share stories, ideas and experiences

talk about favourite oral, print and other media texts

talk about own reading and writing experiences

listen to experiences and feelings shared by others

connect related ideas and information

express interest in new ideas and experiences

connect oral language with print and pictures

understand that stories, information and personal experiences can be recorded in pictures and print and can be listened to, read or viewed

expect print and pictures to have meaning and to be related to each other in print and other media texts

understand that print and books are organized in predictable ways

begin to use language prediction skills when stories are read aloud

ask questions and make comments during listening and reading activities

recall events and characters in familiar stories read aloud by others

read own first name, environmental print and symbols, words that have personal significance and some words in texts

attend to print cues when stories are read aloud

begin to identify some individual words in texts that have been read aloud

begin to make connections among sounds, letters, words, pictures and meaning

identify and generate rhyming words in oral language

hear and identify sounds in words

associate sounds with consonants that appear at the beginning of personally significant words

recite the letters of the alphabet in order

copy scribed words and print texts to assist with writing

participate in shared listening, reading and viewing experiences, using oral, print and other media texts from a variety of cultural traditions and genres, such as picture books, fairy tales, rhymes, stories, photographs, illustrations and video programs

listen and view attentively

identify favourite stories and books

relate aspects of oral, print and other media texts to personal feelings and experiences

talk about and represent the actions of characters portrayed in oral, print and other media texts

talk about experiences similar or related to those in oral, print and other media texts

experiment with sounds, words, word patterns, rhymes and rhythms