• Kindergarten ELA Skills Checklist

     

    The information included on this checklist is assessed on a continuous record of growth. This includes daily class participation, teacher observation, and oral/written activities and formal assessments.

    By January, students should be able to:

    • recognize all 26 capital letters in mixed order
    • recognize all 26 lower case letters in mixed order
    • associate consonant sounds with correct letters 
    • recognize sight words
    • print letters appropriately
    • apply knowledge of letter sounds to written expression
    • space words correctly when writing
    • hear rhyming words
    • produce rhyming words

     Sight words – I, a, my, go, to, like, the, and, in, at, it, he, me, is, we, you,               

                        she, come, this, here, on, was, am, saw, for, where, do, look

     

    By June, students should be able to:
    • maintain and continue with above skills
    • recognize all capital letters in mixed order
    • recognize all lower case letters in mixed order
    • recognize all sight words
    • print all letters appropriately
    • apply knowledge of all  letter sounds to written expression
    • associate vowel sounds with correct letters
    • show awareness of proper capitalization
    • show awareness of ending punctuation
    • write 2 or 3 sentences about a topic

    Sight words – All of the previous words plus the following:

                       his, of, said, that, one, see, what, two, him, with, but, up, out, they, have,

                       down, want, who, her, there, are, good, little, give, all, so, as, be, then