Elementary Elementary Language Arts Grade K
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Number of Credits
1.0
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Estimated Completion Time
32-36 weeks
Suggested Prerequisites
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Learn to read with Penelope the Pirate! In this course, students will go on a reading adventure where they’ll learn new letters and sounds and how to put them together to make words. Students will go on an alphabet safari, play games, read along with interactive storybooks, and even record themselves sounding out words, as they discover a whole new world through reading.Module One: Jumpstart to Kindergarten
-Letters, words, and sounds
-Concepts of print
-Long and short vowel sounds in words
-Different parts of a book
-Upper- and lowercase letters
-Pictures to represent a topic
-Printing letters
Module Two: Building Foundations
-Concepts of print
-Syllables
-Letters and sounds
-Grade-level sight words
-Printing letters
-Blending and segmenting syllables
-Story elements: character, setting, and events
-Presenting information orally
-Naming words
-Unknown word
-Drawing about a topic
Module Three: Making Connections
-Concepts of print
-Letters and sounds
-Grade-level sight words
-Unknown words
-Key details, main topic
-Rhyming words
-Printing letters
-Verbs
-Beginning sounds
-Narrative writing
Module Four: Sharing Solutions
-Letters and sounds
-Grade-level sight words
-Pictures adding meaning to printed words
-Letter printing
-Rhyming words and rhyme in a poem
-Context clues
-Author and illusrator
-Present information orally
-Nouns and verbs
-Opinion writing
Module Five: Sharing Solutions
-Concepts of print
-Blending and segmenting syllables
-Letters and sounds
-Grade-level sight words
-Descriptive words
-Context clues
-Author and illustrator
-Rhyming words
-Plural nouns
-Fact and opinion
-Expository writing
Module Six: Relationships
-Blending and segmenting syllables
-Letters and sounds
-Grade-level sight words
-Interrogatives to ask questions
-Rhyming words
-Adjectives
-Compare and contrast characters' experiences
-Letter printing
-Present information orally
-Narrative writing
Module Seven: Celebration of Diversity
-Letters and sounds
-Grade-level sight words
-Unknown words
-Vocabulary
-CVC words
-Fact and opinion
-Descriptive words
-Onset and rime
-Proper nouns
-Present information orally
-Opinion writing
Module Eight: Ambition
-Letters and sounds
-Grade-level sight words
-Middle sound
-Onset and rime
-CVC words
-Story elements: character, setting, and events
-Present information orally
-Narrative writing
Module Nine: Dedication
-Letters and sounds
-Grade-level sight words
-Middle sound
-Context clues
-Unknown words
-Main topic and key details
-Retelling a text
-Presenting information orally
-Onset and rime
-CVC words
-Plural nouns
-Expository writing
Module Ten: Adventures
-Letters and sounds
-Onset and rime
-Grade-level sight words
-Context clues
-Compare and contrast
-Blending and segmenting sounds
-CVC words
-Verbs
-Multimedia element
-Opinion writing
Module Eleven: Explanations
-Blending and segmenting syllables
-CVC words
-Grade-level sight words
-Fact and opinion
-Present information orally
-Multimedia element
-Prediction of the topic of a text
-Expository writing
-Grammar, punctuation, capitalization, grade-level spelling
Module Twelve: Making Choices
-Add and delete phonemes
-CVC words
-Grade-level sight words
-Story elements: character, setting, and events
-Compare and contrast
-Grammar, punctuation, capitalization, grade-level spelling
-Narrative writing
Module Thirteen: Innovation
-Substitute phonemes
-CVC words
-Grade-level sight words
-Topic and key details
-Context clues
-Vocabulary
-Grammar, punctuation, capitalization, grade-level spelling
-Possessives
-Expository writing
-Present information orally