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"Spang Gang" Web Program

Kindergarten

California Standards Alignment

...helping parents and teachers teach, practice and test with the best (and most current) internet tools available!!

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CONCEPTS ABOUT PRINT

READING

1.0  WORD ANALYSIS, FLUENCY AND SYSTEMATIC VOCABULARY DEVELOPMENT

K1.1  Identify the front cover, back cover and title page of a book

Teach

listing parts of a book

Oswego locate parts

Learning the different parts of the book

Practice

Quia

Assess

Who am I? test

K1.Follow words from left to right and top to bottom on the printed page

Teach

How we read from left to right

Practice

Headin' South song and story

Little Street story

Metamorphasis song and story

Woodpecker Knocking

The Old Gumby cat

And the Caboose Said

Assess

K1.3  Understand that printed materials provide information

 

   
K1.Recognize that sentences in print are made up of separate words

 

   

K1.5  Distinguish letters from words

Teach

Teaches shapes of letters, how to write and tells name of each letter

Uppercase fun letters turn into animals at the zoo

 

Practice

Coloring Pages

Building letters

Keyboard letter practice

Big Comfy Couch lower case letter match

Letter and color Matching

Assess

Alphabet Letter Puzzle

Alphabet Word Puzzle

Kangaroo Confusion

Game 2 -- match lower to upper

Alphabet Garden by Little Fingers

ABC Adventure

K1.Recognize and name all uppercase and lowercase letters of the alphabet

 

PHONEMIC AWARENESS

K1.7  Track (move sequentially form sound to sound) and represent the number,

sameness/ difference,and order of two and three isolated phonemes

(e.g., /f, s, th/, /j, d, j/)

Practice

Letter Blends

Clifford's Letter matching

Assess

K1.Track (move sequentially from sound to sound) and represent changes

in simple syllables and words with two and three sounds as one sound is added,

substituted, omitted, shifted, or repeated (e.g., VCCV, CVC)

Practice

Words and Pictures games

Crankophone

Assess

Match same sounds and words with this memory game

K1.9  Blend vowel-consonant sounds orally to make words or syllables

Practice

Blending sounds to make words

Assess

Phonics Word Builder

K1.10  Identify and produce rhyming words in response to an oral prompt

Teach

Foxy Dancer's rhymes

RhymeBot rhyming lesson

Add a Beginning

Practice

Digby *click "Rhymes"

*click Gus and Inky's Underwater adventure

*click Rhyme Time

Assess

Reggie loves to Rhyme

The Cream Cake Mystery game

K1.11  Distinguish orally stated one-syllable words and separate into beginning or ending sounds

Practice

*click Wild World Round Up

Digby Mole's word games

Assess

Beginning sounds by Little Fingers

Phonics fighter

K1.12  Track auditorily each word in a sentence and each syllable in a word

Teach
Word Hunt

Practice

Clifford Interactive Storybooks

Assess
K1.13  Count the number of sounds in syllables and syllables in words

Teach

Practice

Syllable factory

Word Jumbler - count the Syllables game

Clap and Count Practice

Assess

Syllable factory

Syllable test

\DECODING AND WORD RECOGNITION

K1.14  Match all consonant and short-vowel sounds to appropriate letters

Teach

Starfall A-Z

Practice

Leo loves to spell!

Assess

Letter - Sound Matching Game

K1.15  Read simple one-syllable and high frequency words (ie., sight words)

Practice

Color Word match

Animal Word Match

Shape Word Match

Assess

Word machine

Drag and Drop Game

match pictures with 3 letter words

Word Drop

K1.16  Understand that as letters of words change, so do the sounds

        (i.e. the alphabetic principle)

Practice

Assess

Sassy Seals

VOCABULARY AND CONCEPT DEVELOPMENT

K1.17  Identify and sort common words in basic categories

(colors, shapes, foods)

Practice

Sorting Objects

Catch the color words

Zoe's Pet shelter

Assess

What's the Word?

Scroll down for color word test

K1.18  Describe common objects in both general and specific language.
Teach
Practice

Assess

 

 

COMPREHENSION AND ANALYSIS OF

GRADE LEVEL APPROPRIATE TEXT

2.0  READING COMPREHENSION

K2.1.2 Locate the title, table of contents, name of author, and name of illustrator
Teach

Practice

Assess

K2.2  Use pictures and context to make predictions about story content
Teach

Practice

TIger Aki animated storybooks and games

Assess
K2.3  Connect to life experiences the information and events in texts
Teach

Practice

Assess

K2.4  Retell familiar stories

Practice

Assess

K2.5  Ask and answer questions about essential elements of a text
Teach

Practice

Assess

NARRATIVE ANALYSIS OF GRADE LEVEL

APPROPRIATE TEXT

3.0  LITERARY RESPONSE AND ANALYSIS

K3.1  Distinguish fantasy from realistic text

Teach

Tina's World

Practice

 

Assess

K3.2  Identify types of everyday print materials

(e.g., storybooks, poems, signs, labels)

Teach

Practice

Assess
K3.3  Identify characters, settings and important events
Teach

Practice

Assess

Writing Strategies  and Penmanship

Language- Writing and Speaking

K1.1  Use letters and phonetically spelled words to write about experiences,

stories, people, objects, or events.

Teach

Practice

Assess

 

K1. Write consonant-vowel-consonant words (i.e., demonstrate the

alphabetic principle).

Teach

Practice

GameQuarium CVC Games

Fuzzy Lion Ears

CvC Match

Assess

K1.3  Write by moving from left to right and from top to bottom.

Teach

 

Practice

 

Assess

 

K1.Write uppercase and lowercase letters of the alphabet independently,

attending to the form and proper spacing of the letters.

Teach

ABC Literacy Center

Lower case

Between the Lions letter writing

Practice

Alphabet Practice Pad

open a 2nd window in your browser and watch letters form to practice

Assess

Sentence Structure and Spelling

 

1.0  Written and Oral English Language Conventions

K1.1  Recognize and use complete, coherent sentences when speaking.

Teach

Practice

Letter Blends

Assess

K1.Spell independently by using pre-phonetic knowledge, sounds of the

alphabet, and knowledge of letter names.

Teach

Practice

Assess

3 Letter Word Match

4 Letter Word Match

Missing Letters

1.0  Listening and Speaking

K1.Understand and follow one-and two-step oral directions.
Teach

Practice

 

Assess
K1.Share information and ideas, speaking audibly in complete, coherent sentences.

Teach

Practice

Assess

 

2.0  Speaking Applications

(Genres and Their Characteristics)

K2.1  Describe people, places, things (e.g., size, color, shape), locations, and actions.
Teach

Practice

 

Assess
K2.Recite short poems, rhymes, and songs.

Teach

Practice

Assess

 

K2.3  Relate an experience or creative story in a logical sequence

Teach

 

Practice

 

Assess

 

Number  Sense

MATH

1.0 Students understand the relationship between numbers and quantities

(i.e., that a set of objects has the same number of objects in

different situations regardless of its position or arrangement

 

K1.1  Compare two or more sets of objects (up to ten objects in each group)

and identify which set is equal to, more than, or less than the other.

Teach

 

Practice

Miro on the Move - find the missing number to 10

Assess

Same or Different

K1.2 Count, recognize, represent, name, and order a number of objects

(up to 30).

Teach

Storybook teach counting 1-5

DuckShoot count 1-10

Count Us In Peacock game

Putting Kids on the Bus

Number Train

Count your Chickens with Curious George

Practice

Count Your Chickens to 10

How many?

Snakes and ladders (up to 100) 2-player game

Match number to word representation

Leap Frog counting

Bear Dice Game

Assess

The Counting Game

Count Us In Game 3

Sequencing numbers to 10 by Kidport

Learning Planet - up to 100- choose count by 1's

Mend the numbers square - choose number to 100

Count along to 100

Space Hopscotch Jump forward and back to 30

K1.3  Know that the larger numbers describe sets with more objects

in them than the smaller numbers have.

Teach

"Count us in" Sheep Game

Base 10 Blocks

 

Practice

Go Go Carts - level 1

Miffy "Who has More" game

 

Assess

Same or Different by Kidport

 

2.0 Students understand and describe simple additions and subtractions:

 

3.0 Students use estimation strategies in computation and problem

solving that involve numbers that use the ones and tens places:

K3.1  Recognize when an estimate is reasonable.

Practice

Base 10 Blocks

Cannon Math

Assess

Algebra and Functions

1.0 Students sort and classify objects:

K1.Compare two or more sets of objects (up to ten objects in each group)

and identify which set is equal to, more than, or less than the other.

Teach

Practice

Can you Balance?

Assess

Carnival Countdown

Measurement and Geometry

1.0 Students understand the concept of time and units to measure it;

they understand that objects have properties, such as length, weight,

and capacity, and that comparisons may be made by referring to

K1.1  Compare the length, weight, and capacity of objects by making direct

comparisons with reference objects (e.g., note which object is shorter,

longer, taller, lighter, heavier, or holds more).

Practice

Rank people from tallest to shortest

Elmo Limbo

Apple Picking

Assess

Which has more?

Taller or Shorter

Sleuths on the Move

K1.Demonstrate an understanding of concepts of time (e.g., morning,

afternoon, evening, today, yesterday, tomorrow, week, year) and tools

that measure time (e.g., clock, calendar)

Teach

Put numbers on a clock

Practice

Practice seasons and other reasoning with Daniel Cook

Assess

K1.Name the days of the week

Practice

 

Assess

K1.Identify the time (to the nearest hour) of everyday events

(e.g., lunch time is 12 o'clock; bedtime is 8 o'clock at night).

Practice

Telling time Quizzes

Assess

Match clocks to the hour

2.0 Students identify common objects in their environment and describe the features

K2.1  Identify and describe common geometric objects (e.g., circle, triangle,

square, rectangle, cube, sphere, cone).

Teach

Practice

Matching Shapes by Kidport

Assess

Buzzing with Shapes 2 player game

Put it on the Shelf

First Grade Quiz

K2.2  Compare familiar plane and solid objects by common attributes

(e.g., position, shape, size, roundness, number of corners)

Teach
Practice

Assess

 

Statistics, Data Analysis, and Probability

1.0 Students collect information about objects and events in their

environment:

K1.Pose information questions; collect data; and record the results

using objects,pictures, and picture graphs

Teach

Bar Graph Scaler

Practice

Bobby Bear - test probability

Assess

 

K1.2  Identify, describe, and extend simple patterns (such as circles or triangles)

by referring to their shapes, sizes, or colors.

Practice

Cookie Monster "Check out Cookie' Game

Assess

What comes Next?

Mathematical Reasoning

K1.0  Students make decisions about how to set up a problem
K1.Determine the approach, materials, and strategies to be used

Teach

Feed Gnocci

Practice

Assess

 

K1.2  Use tools and strategies, such as manipulatives or sketches,

to model problems

Teach
Practice Assess

2.0  Students solve problems in reasonable ways and justify their reasoning

K2.1 Explain the reasoning used with concrete objects and/or pictorial representations.

Practice

Assess

 

K2.2  Make precise calculations and check the validity of the results in the

context of the problem.

Teach

Practice Assess

 

 

Last Updated: May 29, 2007