Standards
This web quest is aligned with the following National Standards.
Key Ideas and Details
With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
With prompting and support, retell familiar stories, including key details.
With prompting and support, identify characters, settings, and major events in a story.
Integration of knowledge and detailsWith 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).
Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity
Actively engage in group reading activities with purpose and understanding.
Print Concepts
1. Demonstrate understanding of the organization and basic features of print.
a. Follow words from left to right, top to bottom, and page by page.
b. Recognize that spoken words are represented in written language by specific sequences of letters.
c. Understand that words are separated by spaces in print.
Phonological Awareness
2. Demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds (phonemes).
a. Blend and segment onsets and rimes of single-syllable spoken words.
b. Isolate and pronounce the initial, medial vowel, and final sounds (phonemes) in three-phoneme (consonent-vowel-consonant, or CVC) words.* (This does not include CVCs ending with /l/, /r/, or /x/.)
c. Add or substitute individual sounds (phonemes) in simple, one-syllable words to make new words.
Phonics and Word Recognition
Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.
a. Demonstrate basic knowledge of one-to-one letter-sound correspondences by producing the primary or many of the most frequent sound for each consonant.
b. Associate the long and short sounds with common spellings (graphemes) for the five major vowels.
c. Read common high-frequency words by sight
Fluency
Read emergent-reader texts with purpose and understanding.
Writing Standards
Text Types and Purposes
1. Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and 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.
2. Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to compose informative/explanatory texts in which they name what they are writing about and supply some information about the topic.
Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and 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.
With guidance and support from adults, explore a variety of digital tools to produce and publish writing, including in collaboration with peers.
Participate in shared research and writing projects (e.g., explore a number of books by a favorite author and express opinions about them).
Listening and Speaking Standards
Comprehension and Collaboration
1. Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about kindergarten topics and texts with peers in small and larger groups.
a. Follow agreed-upon rules for discussins (e.g. listening to others and taking turns speaking about the topics and texts under discussion.)
b. Continue a conversation through multiple exchanges.
c. Describe familiar people, places, things, and events and, with prompting and support, provide additional detail.
d. Add drawings or other visual displays to descriptions as desired to provide additional detail.
Conventions of Standard English
1. Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.
a. Print many upper- and lowercase letters.
b. Use frequently occurring nouns and verbs.
c. Form regular plural nouns orally by adding /s/or /es/ (e.g., dog, dogs, wish, wishes
d. Understand and use question wordse. Use the most frequently occurring prepositionsf. Produce and expand complete sentences in shared language activities.
Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing. a. Capitalize the first word in a sentence and the pronoun I b. Recognize and name end punctuation c. Write a letter or letters for most consonant and short-vowel sounds (phonemes).