RSU 5 Standards and Performance Indicators
Kindergarten
Habits of Work
Respect
- Respect: respect for the ideas, feelings, and property of others
Preparedness
- Preparedness: timeliness, organization, homework completion
Engagement
- Engagement: participation, interpersonal involvement, group-work
Determination
- Determination: ability to self-assess; persistence, effective use of feedback
Reading
Foundational Skills
Print Concepts
- Understands basic features of print: left-right, spaces, text-voice match
- Recognizes and names all capital/ lowercase letters of the alphabet
Phonemic Awareness
- Demonstrates understanding of syllables
- Isolates and pronounces initial, medial, and final sounds (phonemes)
- Recognizes and produces rhyming words
- Produces all consonant sounds
- With prompting, applies long and short vowel sounds when decoding words
Phonics and Word Recognition
- Reads grade-appropriate high-frequency words by sight (e.g., the, a, to)
Fluency
- Reads with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension
Writing Production
- Handwrites with appropriate alignment and size, form, neatness and spacing
Spelling
- Spells grade level patterns
Narrative Reading
Comprehends Stories
- Use pictures and story details to describe setting and events
- Retell stories, including key details, and understands central message
- Uses key details to describe characters, settings, and major events in a story
- Actively engages in group reading activities with purpose and understanding
- With prompting, compares/contrasts adventures of characters in stories
Informational Reading
Comprehends Informational Text
- With prompting, asks/answers questions about key details
- With prompting, identifies the main topic and retells key details
- With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about unknown words
- With prompting, compares/contrasts two texts on the same topic
Writing
Narrative Writing
Structure
- Tells, draws, and writes a story
Development
- Elaborates writing by showing who was there, what they did, and how they felt
Conventions
- Writes letters for sounds, uses word wall words, and puts spaces between words
Informational Writing
Structure
- Writes about a topic with a beginning and end.
Development
- Elaborates important things about the topic.
Conventions
- Writes letters for sounds, uses word wall words, and puts spaces between words
Opinion Writing
Structure
- Writes, tells and draws likes and dislikes about a topic
Development
- The page reflects all the writers thoughts with details in pictures and words
Conventions
- Writes letters for sounds, uses word wall words, and puts spaces between words
Speaking and Listening
Comprehension and Collaboration
- Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about kindergarten topics and texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups.
- Confirm understanding of a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media by asking and answering questions about key details and requesting clarification if something is not understood.
- Ask and answer questions in order to seek help, get information, or clarify something that is not understood.
Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas
- Describe familiar people, places, things, and events and, with prompting and support, provide additional detail.
- Add drawings or other visual displays to descriptions as desired to provide additional detail.
Math
Counting and Cardinality
- Count to 100 by ones and tens; represent numbers to 20 in writing
- Count to determine number and compare numbers
Operations and Algebraic Thinking
- Understand addition and subtraction
Number and Operations in Base Ten
- Gain foundations for place value (working with numbers 11-19)
Measurement and Data
- Describe and compare measurable attributes
- Classify objects and count the number of objects in each category.
Geometry
- Identify and describe 2 dimensional and 3 dimensional shapes (squares, circles, triangles, rectangles, hexagons, cubes, cones, cylinders, and spheres)
- Describe the relative position of these shapes.
Communication and Reasoning
- Demonstrates Standards for Mathematical Practices
Science
Demonstrates Understanding of Science Content
Demonstrates Scientific Practices
Social Studies
Demonstrates understanding of social studies content
Applies social studies processes, knowledge and skills
Music
- Singing
- Playing Instruments
- Steady Beat
- Listening
Physical Education
- Participates in physical fitness activities
- Demonstrates a variety of movement and balance skills
- Identifies rules for physical education activities
Art
- Demonstrates understanding of art concepts
- Demonstrates creative problem solving
- Demonstrates art skills
Technology
- Demonstrates understanding of concepts taught