Kindergarten Instructional Guide

26-27 Math Block

Kindergarten

80 minutes

Numeracy Component

Components of Instruction

Range of Time Class Configuration

Focus of Instruction

Building Fact Fluency (BFF) Kit

• Image Talk • Tool Talk.

• Number Talk • 3-Act Math

Whole Group Cooperative Groups Partners

Automaticity and Conceptual Understanding

Build understanding of numbers, relationships, and operations through reasoning, visualization, and flexible strategies

• Anchor Problems • Contextualized Problems • Fact Fluency Games

Number Sense

10 min.

Amplify Desmos Math

• Warm-Up

- Fluency Builder - Unit Story - Strategy Highlight - Invitation to Lesson Tasks

Activate prior knowledge and spark mathematical thinking to connect and prepare for the lesson's big ideas and concepts

Invitation to Learn

5 min.

Whole Group

• 1-2 Lesson Activities - Launch - Monitor - Connect • Lesson Synthesis

Cooperative Groups Partners Whole Group

Engage in challenging tasks while intentionally reinforcing foundational skills that connect to core disciplinary ideas

Concept/Skill Development

20-25 min.

Core Learning

Synthesize

5 min.

Whole Group Consolidate and refine lesson ideas

Check for Understanding

Assess what students know and what they are still learning Engage in collaborative play to strengthen understanding of lesson's key skills and concepts Provide opportunities to apply skills and concepts, reinforcing learning, building fluency, and deepening conceptual understanding through meaningful applications

• Show What You Know

5 min.

Independent

Pairs Cooperative Groups

Strengthen Skills • Center Kit Games

15 min.

• Daily Practice Problems • Additional Practice •. Spiral Review

Practice

Skill Application

5-10 min.

Partners

Amplify Desmos Math

• Support

Skill-Based Instruction - Mini Lesson - Personalized Learning - Center Activity • Strengthen - Center Activity - Personalized Learning - Mini Lesson Center Activity • Stretch: Math Adventures - Extension Activity - Center Activity - Personalized Learning *Special Education math IEP services should be provided during Practice and Skill- Based Instruction times. Differentiation 15 min.

Support learning by frontloading, reviewing, and extending essential skills

Small Groups

Revised 3/3/26