KINDERGARTEN

Benchmark Advance/Adelante will be used for the Kindergarten Literacy curriculum. Highlights of the Benchmark program:

- Captivating books engage each student in critical thinking and communication.

- Designed for Florida’s new B.E.S.T. standards.

- Includes Florida “Exploring the Arts” and Florida Civics and Social Studies Library and trade books.

- Integrates Science, Social Studies, and Literary topics.

- Accommodates students with special needs.

- Digital and print components.

YOUR CHILD WILL EXPLORE THE WORLD THROUGH TEXT BY:

- Identifying front cover, back cover and title page of a book.

- Moving top to bottom and left to right on the printed page when reading; then returning to the beginning of the next line.

- Identifying all upper- and lowercase letters of the alphabet. - Identifying the beginning, middle and last sound in words.

- Demonstrating knowledge of the most frequent sound for each consonant and the five major vowels.

- Reading Kindergarten high frequency words with automaticity.

- Writing many letters correctly.

IN READING AND WRITING, YOUR CHILD WILL BE ABLE TO:

- Describe the characters, setting and events in a story.

- Explain the roles of the author and illustrator of a story.

- Use titles, headings and illustrations to predict and confirm the topic of texts.

- Identify the topic of and multiple details in a text.

- Identify and explain words in a text.

- Retell a text out loud.

- Use drawings, spoken words and/or writing to express an opinion, provide facts about a topic or tell a story.

- Identifying and produce rhyming words.