Curriculum

Children will demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking. For example, during a classroom presentation, they might correctly use past tense verbs or plural nouns in their spoken sentences.

Children will be able to demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.** For example, they will write sentences that correctly use capital letters at the beginning and proper punctuation at the end, such as "I love to read!"

Children will be able to sort words into categories to gain a sense of the concepts the categories represent.** For example, they might group words like "red," "blue," and "green" under the category of "colors," or "shirt," "pants," and "hat" under the category of "clothing."

Children will be able to print all upper- and lowercase letters. For example, they might write the alphabet, showing correct formation of letters like "A," "b," "C," and "d" in both uppercase and lowercase.

Children will be able to capitalize dates and names of people.** For example, they might write, "My birthday is on April 5," and "I met Emily at the park."

Children will be able to use common, proper, and possessive nouns. For example, they might write sentences using "dog" as a common noun, "Sarah" as a proper noun, and "Sarah's book" as a possessive noun.

Children will be able to use end punctuation for sentences.** For example, completing a sentence like "I have a dog" with a period, or using a question mark for "Do you have a pet?" and an exclamation point for "That is amazing!"

Children will be able to use singular and plural nouns with matching verbs in basic sentences, such as "He hops" for singular and "We hop" for plural.

Children will be able to use commas in dates and to separate single words in a series.** For example, they will write sentences like "We have a party on July 4, 2023," and "I like apples, bananas, and oranges."

Children will be ale to use personal, possessive, and indefinite pronouns, for example, using "I" in a sentence like "I have a cat" and "their" in "They have their toys."