Language Arts

Houghton Mifflin Reading:

The Kindergarten language arts program delivers just what you need to start emerging readers on an exciting journey toward literacy. The language arts component consists of 10 different themes each lasting three weeks. Each theme revolves around a particular theme such as “Look at Us,” “We’re a Family,” and so on. Click here for online support for ideas, links, and help with Houghton Mifflin Reading.

The following are the resources needed for the Kindergarten yearlong curriculum plan.

Big Book Read Aloud
Provides daily opportunities for developing comprehension skills and reading strategies through modeled instruction. The Content Area Link in each Big Book connects the story to other curriculum areas.

Alphafriends
26 delightful alphabet characters that teach phonemic awareness and phonics. Each Alphafriend brings the shape and sound of the letter to life.

Letter, Word and Picture Cards
A comprehensive set of Letter Cards, Word Cards and Picture Cards that provide manipulatives for word-and sentence building.

On My Way Practice Readers
These little books give young readers additional practice with phonics skills and high frequency words within these original stories.

Phonics Library
These engaging original selections for beginning and early readers, target phonics skills and known high frequency words.

Student Practice Book
The Practice Book contains activities for application and reinforcement of phonemic awareness, letter identification, phonics, handwriting, and comprehension skills. Formats in the Student Practice Book align with program assessments, state standards, and standardized tests.

Word and Picture Books
These quick stories for use at home are ideal for practicing phonics and high frequency words.

Higglety Pigglety: A Big Book of Rhymes
Favorite rhymes, songs, and chants help children develop oral language and phonemic awareness.

Nursery Rhymes for Kindergarten
This book is a supplement to the Houghton Mifflin series and is used to start the beginning stages of reading. Repetition and rhyming words are one of the foundational skills needed to start an emerging reader.

My Kindergarten Book of Poems
Your child will be encouraged to memorize most of the poems in this book. Poetry is a perfect vehicle for teaching children about the workings of language and the workings of the world around them. Poetry is by nature meant to read aloud, and as such is a powerful tool for building children’s phonemic awareness-that is, their ability to pick out and manipulate the sounds in spoken words. As you share the poems in this book with you child point out word families, syllables, beginning and ending consonants, long and short vowels and other aspects of language. Beyond introducing the workings of language, poetry opens up children’s imaginations and hearts, helping them look at their familiar world in a new way.

Resource Packets
Teacher reproduced material that supplement the letter of the week. A lot of great ideas and reproducible materials that reinforce each letter and sound. These are located in the Kindergarten Grade Level Drawer. (GLD)

Trade Books
Aside from the “Big Book Read Alouds,” your child should read, or be read to, for minimum of 20 minutes daily. Each theme has suggested tradebooks that will connect, enhance and enrich the core curriculum theme being presented. These books are not required reading, however, it is very important that you supplement the core curriculum. VOCS has made a conscientious effort to procure tradebooks listed on the grids for our library. Core Literature books have been purchased in large quantities and are marked by an asterisk on the grid.

Handwriting
VOCS offers Zaner-Bloser Handwriting: Level K and D’Nealian Handwriting

 

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