Below are the Mastery Learning Targets, or priorities for all kindergarten students to be successful when they advance to first grade. Mastery (M) of these skills means the student has met the grade-level standard and is independently performing on grade level. Mastery may take time to reach, as foundational skills progress throughout the school year.

READING

• Follows words from left to right, line to line and page by page.

• Recognizes and names all upper and lowercase letters.

• Identifies and produces words that rhyme.

• Blends and segments syllables in spoken words.

• Pronounces letter sounds orally at the beginning, middle and ending of words.

• Produces sounds of individual consonants in words.

• Produces sounds of individual vowels in words.

• Reads Kindergarten sight words.

• Recognizes the lesson learned by using key details in a story. 

• Recalls characters, settings, and major events to understand a story. 

• Recognizes the central idea by using key details in a nonfiction story. 

• Prints all lower case letters.

• Prints all uppercase letters.

• Prints first name.

• Prints last name.

• Writes an opinion including reasons with teacher support. 

• Creates an informational piece that has a topic and supporting details with teacher support.  (Can be written in pictures and/or words)

• Uses proper capitalization for the first word in sentences and the pronoun I.

• Names punctuation marks.

• Uses letter sounds to spell when writing.   

MATH

• Counts forward by ones to 100.

• Counts forward by 10s to 100.

• Counts backwards from 30 by ones.

• Counts forward beginning from a given number.

• Writes numerals from 0-20.

• Counts up to 20 objects arranged in different ways.   

• Compares two numbers between 1 and 10 presented as written numerals.

• Adds numbers within 10 using objects, fingers, or drawings.

• Subtracts numbers within 10 using objects, fingers, and drawings.                             

• Solves addition and subtraction word problems within 10 using objects or drawings.

• Decomposes numbers less than or equal to 10.

• Adds and subtracts within 5.

• Composes and decomposes numbers 11-19.

• Describes the measurable attributes of objects.

• Compares two and three dimensional shapes.

SOCIAL STUDIES

• Asks questions about their community.

• Talks or writes about their community.

• Talks or writes about life in their community, history, geography, and/or economy (Goods/Services or Supply/Demand)

• Addresses a solution to a problem in the classroom.

• Gives examples of ways to be a good citizen or successful student.

• Applies knowledge of good citizenship.

SCIENCE

• Compares the basic forces of push/pull using simple investigations.

• Describes what animals and plants need to survive.

• Explains basic weather patterns.