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 takes time to develop and may take the full 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.

• Count, pronounce, blend, and segment syllables in spoken words.

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

• Produces the most common sounds of individual consonants.

• Produces sounds of individual vowels.

• Reads Kindergarten high-frequency words by sight.

• Apply grade-level phonics skills to decode words.

• Reads and understands grade level text with ease, self-correcting as needed. 

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

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

• With help, applies background knowledge and comprehension strategies to understand grade-level complex fiction and nonfiction texts through listening. 

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

• With help, applies background knowledge and comprehension strategies to understand grade-level complex fiction and nonfiction texts through listening.

HANDWRITING 

• Prints all lowercase letters.

• Prints all uppercase letters.

• Prints first name.

• Prints last name.

• Prints numerals 0-9.

WRITING/COMPOSITION

• Writes to express an opinion with reasons.

• Writes informational pieces that introduce a topic and provide details.

• Writes narratives that includes an event, details, and an ending.

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

• Uses end punctuation marks correctly.

• 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, or drawings.                             

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

• Solves 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-dimensional shapes.

• 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.

• Uses listening skills in the classroom.

SCIENCE

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

• Describes the effect of sunlight on Earth's surface.

• Describes what animals and plants need to survive.

• Tells how people impact the environment.

• Explains basic weather patterns.