Kindergarten Instructional Guide

25-26 Literacy Block Kindergarten 150 minute Block

Class Configuration

Literacy Component

Range of Time

Standards and Components for Focus of Instruction

Standards

Components

95 Phonics Core Program ●​ Phonological Awareness

20-25 Minutes

​ Foundations

●​ Phonics ●​ Spelling ●​ Handwriting ●​ Decodable

•​ Reading K.R. 2-4

Whole Group Cooperative

Wonders ●​ Interactive Read Aloud ●​ Shared Read ●​ Literature Anthology Wonders ●​ Writing about the text ●​ Grammar ●​ Extended Writing ●​ Paired Text ●​ Vocabulary

●​ Speaking and Listening K.SL. 1-3 ●​ Reading K.R. 4-9

Groups & Partners

55-60 minutes

Language, Reading, & Writing

20-30 minutes

●​ Writing Standards K.W. 1-5

Wonders

o​ Leveled Readers o​ Decodables ●​ 95% Phonics Core Review ●​ 95% Phonological Awareness Kit

Skills Based Instruction

●​ Skills for frontloading, reviewing or extending

Small Groups

30-45 minutes

●​ KPALS ●​ ERI Kit ●​ Early Literacy Software