Kindergarten: Unit 1 “I Can” Statements



Kindergarten: Unit 1 “I Can” Statements

Checkpoints toward Mastery of the Standards

RL.K.5

I can identify a storybook and a nursery rhyme.

I can sort familiar storybooks and nursery rhymes into their genres.

I can identify a poem.

I can sort storybooks, nursery rhymes, and poems into their genres.

I can identify informational text (nonfiction).

I can sort storybooks, nursery rhymes, poems, and informational text into their genres.

I can identify realistic fiction.

I can sort storybooks, nursery rhymes, poems, informational text, and realistic fiction into their genres.

RL.K.6

I can name (point to) the author of a book.*

I can explain what an author does.*

I can name (point to) the illustrator of a book.*

I can explain what an illustrator does.*

RI.K.4

I can answer questions about words that I have never heard before using pictures and words around it (context clues).*

I can ask questions about words that I have never heard before using pictures and words around it (context clues).*

RI.K.10

I can sit still and listen to a text/article in a group setting.

I can listen to others ask questions about the text/article.

I can answer questions from the teacher or from another student about the text/article.

I can ask questions to help me understand the text/article.

I can participate in group reading.

I can explain the purpose for reading.

I can explain that I understand what is being read.

W.K.1

I can recognize what an opinion is.

I can draw a picture to explain my thoughts about a story or topic.

I can dictate or write a sentence or sentences to explain my thoughts about a story or topic.

I can write a simple sentence or sentences to explain my thoughts about a story or text/article.

I can draw, tell, and write the topic or the name of the book.

I can draw, tell, and write my opinion about a topic or a book.

RF.K.1a

I can show that I can hold a book the right way.

I can follow words from top to bottom, left to right, and page by page in the text/article.

I can follow the words in print.

RF.K.1b

I can tell the difference between a letter and a number or another object or symbol.

I can recognize that certain groups of sounds or letters make up words.

I can create words by putting together sounds from left to right.

RF.K.1c

I can point to the spaces between words.

RF.K.1d

I can tell the difference between upper and lower case letters.

I can name all upper case letters of the alphabet.

I can name all lower case letters of the alphabet.

I can combine letters to make words.

I can use words to make sentences.

RF.K.2a

I can recognize rhyming words.

I can match rhyming words.

I can tell two or more words that rhyme.

RF.K.3a

I can point to and say the sound that each letter makes.

RF.K.3b

I can point to and say short sounds of vowels.

I can point to and say long sounds of vowels.

L.K.1a

I can write most uppercase and lowercase letters that have been introduced.

L.K.2c

I can write a letter or letters for most sounds.

L.K.2d

I can put letters and sounds together to make simple words.

L.K.5a

I can put objects that are alike in a group and tell how they are alike.**

I can pull out objects that are different from a group and tell how they are different.**

I can put common objects into groups.**

L.K.6

I can use words and groups of words (phrases) that I have heard someone say.

I can use words and groups of words (phrases) that I have read in a book.

I can use words and groups of words (phrases) that I have heard from someone reading a book aloud.

I can use words and groups of words when responding to texts.

SL.K.1a

I can sit still and look at a person who is speaking or reading.

I can respect others by waiting to speak until they are finished.

SL.K.1b

I can listen to others speak and add to what they are talking about by taking turns and keeping the conversation going.

* With prompting and support

** With guidance and support

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