Kindergarten
Kindergarten English Language Arts
8 units and 58 learning lessons. This is the outline a Kindergarten student works through in English Language Arts — the lessons themselves are taught inside OHM School, adapted to how each child is doing.
About this outline: the listed lessons are part of the available learning path. A lesson appearing here does not mean its standards mapping or assessment evidence has completed educator review. See the evidence and review methodology.
Kindergarten English Language Arts
OHM School · Kindergarten
English Language Arts
8 units · 58 lessons
It opens with Concepts of Print and closes with Speaking, Listening, and Language.
All units
All units
Lessons
Unit 1 of 8
Concepts of Print
4 lessons
Lessons
- 1How Books Work
- 2Words Are Made of Letters
- 3Spaces Between Words
- 4Reading Left to Right, Top to Bottom
Unit 2 of 8
Phonological Awareness
7 lessons
Lessons
- 1Rhyming Words
- 2Counting Syllables
- 3Blending Sounds
- 4Segmenting Sounds
- 5Beginning and Ending Sounds
- 6Onset and Rime
- 7Changing Sounds to Make New Words
Unit 3 of 8
Letter-Sound Correspondence
7 lessons
Lessons
- 1Alphabet Recognition
- 2Beginning Consonant Sounds
- 3Short Vowel Sounds
- 4Long Vowel Sounds
- 5Letters That Look Alike
- 6CVC Word Building
- 7Decodable Books
Unit 4 of 8
Sight Words
4 lessons
Lessons
- 1Sight Words -- Set 1
- 2Sight Words -- Set 2
- 3Reading Sight Word Sentences
- 4Reading Emergent-Reader Books
Unit 5 of 8
Listening to Stories
9 lessons
Lessons
- 1Questions About Stories
- 2Retelling a Story
- 3Characters, Setting, and Events
- 4Unknown Words in Stories
- 5Storybooks and Poems
- 6Authors and Illustrators
- 7Pictures and the Story
- 8Comparing Characters' Adventures
- 9Reading Together with Purpose
Unit 6 of 8
Learning from Informational Books
8 lessons
Lessons
- 1Questions About Facts
- 2Main Topic and Details
- 3Connecting Ideas
- 4New Words in Nonfiction
- 5Pictures and Facts
- 6Reasons an Author Gives
- 7Same Topic, Two Books
- 8Reading Nonfiction Together
Unit 7 of 8
Handwriting and Writing
9 lessons
Lessons
- 1Letter Formation -- Uppercase
- 2Letter Formation -- Lowercase
- 3Writing Your Name
- 4Drawing and Writing Opinions
- 5Drawing and Writing to Teach
- 6Telling a Story in Order
- 7Adding Details with Help
- 8Writing with Digital Tools
- 9Class Research Projects
Unit 8 of 8
Speaking, Listening, and Language
10 lessons
Lessons
- 1Taking Turns in Conversation
- 2Asking Questions to Understand
- 3Describing People and Places
- 4Speaking Clearly
- 5Nouns and Verbs
- 6Question Words and Prepositions
- 7Capitals and End Marks
- 8Sorting Words into Categories
- 9Opposites and Word Meanings
- 10Using New Words
How it is taught
The whole subject, in the order a child meets it.
- What is covered8 units and 58 lessons, every one of them in the book above: this is the whole of English Language Arts in Kindergarten, not a sample.
- Taught in orderA lesson unlocks when the one before it is mastered, and review is scheduled from what the child has actually shown rather than on a fixed timetable.
- Kept currentThese titles are read from the live curriculum, so what is in this book is what a Kindergarten student would work through today.
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