Kindergarten Report Overview

The Kindergarten materials meet the expectations for alignment to standards and research-based practices for foundational skills instruction. Materials contain isolated, systematic, and explicit instruction for all 26 upper- and lowercase letters, and the Pacing Guide indicates the order in which letters are introduced. Students have frequent opportunities to identify, locate, and name all 26 upper- and lowercase letters. Materials provide explicit instruction and practice for all students regarding the organization of print concepts. Materials include routines and hand motions for the teacher to model phonological awareness concepts and provide ample opportunities for students to practice each new sound and sound pattern through multisensory and multimodal learning opportunities. The lessons provide teachers with systematic and repeated instruction for students to hear, say, encode, and read each newly taught grade-level phonics pattern. Materials contain systematic and explicit instruction of high-frequency words and provide students with multiple and varied opportunities over the course of the year to learn, practice, and apply word analysis strategies through interactive activities. Materialsprovide systematic, explicit instruction and practice in fluency by focusing on accuracy and automaticity in decoding. Materials provide a Teacher Guide that includes a Scope and Sequence and Lesson Pacing Guide, along with instructional routines and lesson targets, in addition to offering two flexible pathways to support teaching and learning. Materials contain a clear, evidence-based explanation for the expected hierarchy for teaching phonological awareness skills and research based on The Science of Reading and Scarborough’s Reading Rope. Materials delineate a scope and sequence with a cohesive, intentional sequence of phonics instruction and practice to build toward application of skills, including a clear research-based explanation for the order of phonics instruction. Materials regularly and systematically provide various assessment opportunities for students to demonstrate progress toward mastery of print concepts, including a summative assessment for every module, formative daily assessments for phonological awareness in the form of Exit Tickets, and cumulative reviews. The Common Core State Standards for each Lesson, summative Module Assessments, and formative assessment Exit tickets are noted in the Standards box on the digital platform. The digital materials enhance student learning through teacher resources, printable sound-spelling cards, Foldable Decodable and Passages, Articulation Videos, See and Sing Videos, and Interactive activities. The digital materials include opportunities for teachers to personalize learning for all students using adaptive or other technological innovations.