ELA Scope and Sequence
Grade Kindergarten
Lesson
Text/Resources
Writing Focus
Concepts
Welcome to Kindergarten:
Journey of Nursery Rhymes/Songs
Journey from A to Z.
What Makes a Family?
Building With Dad
Poetry: “Frère Jacques”
Mechanics, Illustration
paired with Dictation,
Oral Storytelling
Rhyming Words
Letters A through Z
Mechanics, Illustration
paired with Dictation,
Oral Storytelling
Nouns (People) and
Beginning Sounds
2
How Do Dinosaurs Go to School?
Friends at School
“My School bus”
Mechanics, Illustration
paired with Dictation,
Oral Storytelling
Nouns (Places), Words in
Oral Sentences and
Beginning Sounds
3
Please, Puppy, Please
I Have a Pet!
“Different Kind of Dogs”
Everybody Works
Pizza at Sally’s
“The Elves and the Shoemaker”
“The Lion and the Mouse”
The Handiest things in the World
The Little Red Hen
Stone Soup
My Five Senses
Listen, Listen
Poems About Senses
Mice Squeak, We Speak
Amelia’s Show-and-Tell Fiesta
The Fort Worth Zoo
Narrative
Nouns (Animals and
Things)
Narrative
Action Verbs, Words in Oral
Sentences and Beginning
Sounds
Narrative
Action Verbs, Words in Oral
Sentences and Beginning
sounds
Informative
Sensory Words and Blend &
Segment Onset/Rime
Informative
Sensory Words and Blend &
Segment
8
Move!
Jonathan and His Mommy
Informative
Adjectives (Color), Blend
and Segment Onset/Rime,
9
What Do Wheels Do All Day?
Good Morning, Digger
“Wheels Long Ago and Today”
Informative
Adjectives (Number Words)
and Blend Phonemes
10
Novel Unit 1: Exploring Fables
The Ant and the Grasshopper
The Hare and the Tortoise
Jump into January
Every Season
“Holidays All Year Long”
Text Analysis
Expository Writing
Adjectives for Size and
Shape, Blend Phonemes
Characters Traits, and
Features of a Fable
Narrative Writing
Sentence Parts (Subject) and
Blend Phonemes
Narrative
Sentence Parts (verb),
Blend Phonemes, Final
Sound
1
4
5
6
7
11
12
Snow
Storm is Coming!
“How Water Changes”
What Do You Do With a Tail Like
This?
A Zebra’s World
Poetry: Insects
Turtle Splash!
Home for Tiger, Home for a Bear
“Where Animals Live”
Narrative
Complete Sentences,
Capitalization, Punctuation,
Blending Phonemes,
isolating middle sound
Narrative
Verbs in past Tense,
blending phonemes,
isolating middle sound
15
Novel Unit 2: Things in the Sky
Cloudette
What a Beautiful Sky!
Text Analysis
Expository Writing
Statements, blending
phonemes, isolating middle
sound, non-fiction vs.
fiction, figurative language
16
What is Science?
Dear Mr. Blueberry
“Benjamin Franklin, Inventor”
From Caterpillar to Butterfly
It is the Wind
“Anansi and Grasshopper”
Opinion Writing
Proper Nouns (Places,
People, and Pets) and Blend
& Segment Phonemes
Opinion Writing
Proper Nouns (Places,
People, and Pets) and Blend
& Segment Phonemes
18
Atlantic
One-Dog Canoe
Poems about the Sea
Opinion Writing
Verbs in Future Tense and
Blend & Segment Phonemes
19
Sheep Take a Hike
Nicky and the Rainy Day
“The Three Billy Goats Gruff”
“The Builder and the Oni”
Novel Unit 3: Rhyming OR Author
Appreciation Unit
Opinion Writing
Verbs, Adding Phonemes,
Rhyming, Themes,
Nonsense Words, and
Author’s Purpose
Text Analysis
Expository Writing
Author’s Purpose, Blend and
Segment Phonemes
21
Zin! Zin! Zin! A Violin
Simon and Molly plus Hester
Poems about Friends
Informative Writing
Pronouns (He, She, We),
Blend & Segment Phonemes
22
Leo the Late Bloomer
A Tiger Grows Up
“What Can a Baby Animal Do?”
Informative Writing
Pronouns (They, it, I), Blend
& Segment Phonemes and
Substitute Phonemes
23
Zinnia’s Flower Garden
Oscar and the Frog
“Growing Sunflowers”
Chameleon, Chameleon
Red Eyes or Blue Feathers
“Amazing Animal Bodies”
Informative Writing
Proper Nouns (Days &
Months), Blend & Segment
Phonemes Substitute
Phonemes
Informative Writing
Questions (Capitalization
and Punctuation) Blend &
Segment Phonemes and
Substitute Phonemes
25
Bread Comes to Life
Pie in the Sky
“From Apple Tree to Store”
Expository Writing
26
Kitten’s First Full Moon
Curious George Makes Pancakes
Poetry: Moon and Stars
Opinion
Exclamations
(Capitalization and
Punctuation), Blend &
Segment Phonemes and
Substitute Phonemes
Subject Verb Agreement,
Substitute Phonemes
13
14
17
20
24
27
One of Three
Someone Bigger
“Cross-Country Trip”
Opinion
Subject Verb Agreement,
Substitute Phonemes
28
You Can Do It, Curious George!
The Little Engine that Could
Poems About Things You Can Do
Look at Us
Baby Brains
“The Three Little Pigs”
Opinion
Subject- Verb Agreement
Substitute Phonemes
Opinion
Prepositions (for, to, with)
and Track Syllables
Miss Bindergarten Celebrates the Last
Day of Kindergarten
Pet Show!
“Schools Then and Now”
IFL Anchor Unit : Exploring Characters
Opinion
Prepositions (in, on, out, off,
by) and Track Syllables
Review Lessons 31-34 (Optional)
 Stories Repeated
Review High Frequency Words
Review/Continue Decoding Practice
Review Narrative,
Opinion, Poems,
Informative
29
30
Review
Text Analysis
Long Vowel-silent “e”
*Subject to change based on calendar year and classroom needs.