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Kindergarten Common Core I Can Statements

This document outlines "I Can" statements for kindergarten students in English/Language Arts and math based on Common Core State Standards at Monarch Elementary. It includes statements about what students can do in reading literature and informational texts, foundational reading skills, writing, speaking and listening, language, and math concepts like counting, operations, measurement, geometry and more. The document provides a detailed overview of learning objectives for kindergarteners across core subject areas.

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Kindergarten Common Core I Can Statements

This document outlines "I Can" statements for kindergarten students in English/Language Arts and math based on Common Core State Standards at Monarch Elementary. It includes statements about what students can do in reading literature and informational texts, foundational reading skills, writing, speaking and listening, language, and math concepts like counting, operations, measurement, geometry and more. The document provides a detailed overview of learning objectives for kindergarteners across core subject areas.

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Monarch Elementary

Kindergarten English/Language Arts and Math Common Core State Standards

I Can Statements

Kindergarten I Can Statements for Reading and Writing


Reading for Literature

I can ask and answer questions about key details in a text.


I can retell what I read, using key details.
I can tell you about characters, settings and the main parts of the story.
I can ask and answer questions about words I dont know in the text.
I can recognize different types of texts, including stories, poems, fantasy and real texts.
I can name the author, illustrator and tell you what each one does to help tell the story.
I can describe the relationship between the pictures and the story.
I can compare and contrast what happens to the characters in the story.
I can read stories in a group and use what I already know to connect to the text and use the pictures and situations to
make predictions about the story.

Reading for Informational Texts

I can ask and answer questions about key details in a text.


I can retell what I read, using key details and tell you what the story is mostly about.
I can tell you about the connection between two characters, events, ideas or pieces of information in a story.
I can ask and answer questions about words I dont know in the story.
I know how to find the front and back cover of a book and where the title page is.
I can tell you who wrote the story and who did the pictures and how they worked together to make the story.
I can tell you how the pictures and the story are connected.
I can tell you reasons why the writer said a certain thing in the story.
I can tell you what is different and the same in two stories on the same thing.
I can read stories in a group and use what I already know to connect to the text and use the pictures and situations to
make predictions about the story.

Reading Foundational Skills

I can follow words from left to right, top to bottom, and page to page.
I know that the words we say can be written with letters in a certain way.
I know that words need to have spaces between them in a sentence.
I know all the names of the upper and lower case letters.
I know what a rhyming word is and can make up rhyming words.
I can count, say, blend, and separate syllables in words that I say.
I can blend and separate onsets and rimes of words with one syllable.
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Monarch Elementary

Kindergarten English/Language Arts and Math Common Core State Standards

I Can Statements

I can blend two or three sounds into words that I know


I can isolate and say the beginning, middle, and ending sounds in a word.
I can change a sound in a word to make a new word.
I can make the sound of each letter.
I know that vowels have both long and short sounds and can show you how they are spelled.
I know all of my sight words.
I can tell the difference between similar words by the way they are spelled.
I can read books by myself and know what the story is about.

Writing

I can tell you what I think about a book by writing about it, telling you about it, or drawing a picture about it.
I can tell you what I am writing about and tell you some information about what I am writing and make a story that
informs or explains something by writing about it, telling you about it, or drawing a picture about it.
I can put a story together about one thing, or a couple of things that happened and tell you about the things in order
and tell you how I felt about by writing about it, telling you about it, or drawing a picture about it.
I can answer questions and suggestions from my friends about how to make my writing better.
I can use different tools to help me publish my writing, including working with my friends, and the computer.
I can work with my friends to write or to do research.
I can remember information about something I did, or gather information to answer a question.

Speaking and Listening

I can talk about kindergarten things with grown-ups and other children.
I can follow the rules when I talk about things.
I can go back and continue a conversation we had earlier.
I can show that I learned something in a story or from someone by talking about it and answering questions about what I
learned.
I can follow one and two step directions.
I can ask and answer questions to get help, learn something, or to clear something up.
I can describe people, places, things and events with some details.
I can add drawings or other things to give more details to what I talk about.
I can speak loud and clear and tell you what I am thinking and feeling.

Monarch Elementary

Kindergarten English/Language Arts and Math Common Core State Standards

I Can Statements

Language

I can print upper and lower case letters.


I can use nouns and verbs when writing or speaking.
I can make a noun into a plural noun by adding /s/ when I say it.
I understand question words and know how to use them (5W & H)
I can use prepositions correctly.
I can speak and write using complex sentences.
I know when to capitalize a word.
I know what punctuation to put at the end of a sentence.
I can write the letter(s) for most of the sounds.
I can sound out words and write them.
I can tell the meaning of a word when you use it in a different way
I can use what I know about words as a clue to figure out new words.
I can sort objects into categories.
I can show you that I understand certain words by saying the opposite word.
I can find real-life connections between words and what they are used for.
I can tell the difference between action words that are talking about the same thing.
I can use words and phrases that I learned from reading, listening to stories, and talking with others.

Kindergarten I Can Statements for Math


Counting and Cardinality
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I can count to 100 by ones and tens.


I can count forward from any number, not just 1.
I can write my numbers up to 20.
I know that numbers are connected to how many things you have.
A. When I count something, I know that each number goes with one and only one amount.
B. I know that the last number that I say tells me how many things I counted.
C. I know that each number is 1 bigger than the number before.
5. I can count items to tell you how many, up to 20 things, if they are lined up. If they are mixed up, I can tell you how
many up to 10 things.
6. I can tell you if a group of things is more, less, or the same as another group.
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Kindergarten English/Language Arts and Math Common Core State Standards

7. I can compare two numbers between 1 and 10.

I Can Statements

Operations and Algebraic Thinking


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I can add and subtract in many different ways.


I can add and subtract word problems up to 10.
I can break down a number, up to 10, into pairs in more than one way.
I can find the missing number that will add up to 10.
I can add and subtract up to 5.

Number and Operations in Base Ten

1. I can break apart and put together numbers between 11 and 19 using ten frames.

Measurement and Data

1. I can describe an object by its attributes such as length and weight.


2. I can compare two objects by an attribute and see which one is more or less than the other and tell you about the
differences.
3. I can group objects into categories, count the objects in the group, and sort the groups by how many.
4. I can show you that I understand about time.
A. I know the days of the week.
B. I know the time I do everyday things.

Geometry
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I can tell you about objects around me by describing what their shapes are and where they are.
I can name shapes no matter their size or direction.
I can tell you about flat and solid shapes
I can compare flat and solid shapes by using my words to tell about what is the same, different, parts and other
common things.
5. I can build a model of a shape from the world by building it from objects and drawing it.
6. I can build a large shape from smaller shapes.

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