The kindergarten Integrated Language Arts curriculum encompasses
many areas of language, which together support growth
in oral, written, and visual communication. Our ILA
studies are incorporated into all subject areas. They include:
- Listening
- Find meaning in conversations and discussions
- Follow directions
- Understand and enjoy stories
- Process new curriculum content
- Respond appropriately
- Relate personal experience and prior knowledge
- Hear letter sounds
- Speaking
- Converse and convey ideas
- Tell stories
- Role-play
- Respond to literature
- Present or share work
- Ask or answer questions
- Sing
- Reading
- Sustain interest in reading activities
- Understand and interpret stories
- Make predictions
- Construct meaning
- Decode words and apply reading strategies
- Respond to stories
- Select books for a purpose
- Writing
- Sustain interest in writing activities
- Write for a purpose
- Apply conventions of print (technical writing)
- Letter formation
- Sentence formation
- Punctuation
- Grammar
- Stretch spelling
- Express ideas and opinions (communicate meaning)
- Read and edit writing
- Viewing
- Find meaning in illustrations and photographs
- View visual media (videos, DVDs, computer programs) for a variety of purposes
- Interpret environmental symbols
- Analyze real and pretend illustrations and media propaganda
- Visually Representing
- Interpret and share information through various art forms
- Consider audience and purpose of assignment
The six components of our ILA program include valuable skills
that are important to develop in kindergarten. The language
arts are used simultaneously and are linked throughout
our daily activities.
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