Curriculum

Children will be able to use conventional spelling for words with common spelling patterns and for frequently occurring irregular words.** For example, they might spell words like "cat," "dog," and "happy" correctly, as well as irregular words like "said" and "was."

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 able to use frequently occurring adjectives** in their writing and speaking, for example, describing a dog as "big," "friendly," or "playful."

Children will be able to use frequently occurring conjunctions** such as "and," "but," "or," "so," and "because" to connect ideas in sentences, for instance, saying "I want to play outside, but it is raining."

Children will be able to use determiners** (e.g., articles like "a" and "the," and demonstratives like "this" and "that") in their sentences. For example, they might say, "I see the dog" or "This is my favorite book."

Children will be able to use frequently occurring prepositions** (e.g., during, beyond, toward) in their speaking and writing. For example, they might say, "The cat is under the table" or "We will play beyond the park."

Children will be able to produce and expand complete simple and compound declarative, interrogative, imperative, and exclamatory sentences** in response to prompts. For example, they might respond to a prompt by saying, "I like ice cream" (declarative), "Do you like ice cream?" (interrogative), "Please pass the ice cream" (imperative), or "Wow, that ice cream looks delicious!" (exclamatory).

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 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 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!"