Kindergarten Practice Book Contents Start Smart We Are Special Unit 2 Friends Alphabet Poster. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Week 1: Learning About Friends Alphabet Writing Cues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Phonics: /s/s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Week 1: Look Around You Comprehension: Character. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Respond to the Big Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 High-Frequency Word: like. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Phonemic Awareness: /s/. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 High-Frequency Word: I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Letter Recognition: Aa–Dd. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Phonics: Blending s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Letter Recognition: Ee–Hh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Week 2: What Is a Friend? High-Frequency Word: I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Phonics: /p/p. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Week 2: Kindergarteners Can Comprehension: Compare and Contrast. . . . . . . 48 Respond to the Big Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 High-Frequency Word: a. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Phonemic Awareness: /p/ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 High-Frequency Word: can. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Letter Recognition: Ii–Nn. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Phonics: Blending p. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 Letter Recognition: Oo–Rr . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Week 3: Getting Along High-Frequency Word: can. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Phonics: /s/s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 Week 3: We Make Music Comprehension: Character. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 Respond to the Big Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 High-Frequency Words: like, a . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 High-Frequency Words: I, can . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Phonics: /p/p. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 Letter Recognition: Ss–Xx . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Phonics: Blending s, p. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 Phonemic Awareness: /s/, /p/ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 Letter Recognition: Yy–Zz. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 High-Frequency Words: I, can . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Phonics: /s/s, /p/p . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 Unit 1 Families Unit 3 Transportation Week 1: My Family and Me Week 1: Getting Around Town Phonics: /m/m . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Phonics: /t/t . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 Comprehension: Make Predictions . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Comprehension: Make Predictions . . . . . . . . . . . 62 High-Frequency Word: we . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 High-Frequency Word: see . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 Phonemic Awareness: /m/. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Phonemic Awareness: /t/. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 Phonics: /m/m . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Phonics: Blending at . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 Week 2: Families Get Together Week 2: Traveling Far and Near Phonics: /a/a. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Phonics: /i/i. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 Comprehension: Setting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Comprehension: Classify and Categorize. . . . . . 68 High-Frequency Word: the . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 High-Frequency Word: go. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 Phonemic Awareness: /a/ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Phonemic Awareness: /i/. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 Phonics: Blending am . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Phonics: Blending it. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 Week 3: Families Change Week 3: Wheels All Around Phonics: /m/m . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .33 Phonics: /t/t . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 Comprehension: Make Predictions . . . . . . . . . . . .34 Comprehension: Character, Plot . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 High-Frequency Words: we, the. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .35 High-Frequency Words: see, go . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 Phonics: /a/a. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .37 Phonics: /i/i. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 Phonics: Blending am . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .38 Phonics: Blending it, at . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 Review Phonics: /m/m, /a/a. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .39 Review Phonics: /t/t, /i/i . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 PK_PW_TOC_193627.indd 2 3/14/06 2:23:45 PM Unit 2 Friends Unit 4 Food Unit 6 Neighborhood Week 1: Learning About Friends Week 1: Where Food Comes From Week 1: Our Neighborhood Phonics: /s/s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Phonics: /n/n. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 Phonics: /h/h. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121 Comprehension: Character. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Comprehension: Sequence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82 Comprehension: Main Idea and Details . . . . . . . 122 High-Frequency Word: like. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 High-Frequency Word: to . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 High-Frequency Word: are . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123 Phonemic Awareness: /s/. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Phonemic Awareness: /n/ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85 Phonemic Awareness: /h/ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125 Phonics: Blending s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Phonics: Blending n. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86 Phonics: Blending h. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126 Week 2: What Is a Friend? Week 2: What’s For Dinner? Week 2: People and Places Phonics: /p/p. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Phonics: /k/c. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 Phonics: /d/d. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127 Comprehension: Compare and Contrast. . . . . . . 48 Comprehension: Make Inferences. . . . . . . . . . . . 88 Comprehension: Main Idea and Details . . . . . . . 128 High-Frequency Word: a. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 High-Frequency Word: have . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 High-Frequency Words: for, you . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129 Phonemic Awareness: /p/ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Phonemic Awareness: /k/ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91 Phonics: /r/r. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131 Phonics: Blending p. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 Phonics: Blending c. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92 Phonics: Blending r . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132 Week 3: Getting Along Week 3: Food Traditions Week 3: Neighborhood Workers Phonics: /s/s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 Phonics: /n/n. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93 Phonics: /h/h. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133 Comprehension: Character. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 Comprehension: Make Inferences. . . . . . . . . . . . 94 Comprehension: Retell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134 High-Frequency Words: like, a . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 High-Frequency Words: to, have . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 High-Frequency Words: are, for, you. . . . . . . . . . 135 Phonics: /p/p. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 Phonics: /k/c. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 Phonics: /d/d, /r/r . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137 Phonics: Blending s, p. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 Phonics: Blending n, c. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98 Phonics: Blending am, ap, an. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138 Phonemic Awareness: /s/, /p/ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 Review Phonics: /n/n, /k/c. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 Review Phonics: /h/h, /d/d, /r/r, /f/f, /o/o, /k/c. . . . 139 Phonics: /s/s, /p/p . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 Unit 3 Transportation Unit 5 Animals Unit 7 Weather Week 1: Getting Around Town Week 1: Animals We Know Week 1: Kinds of Weather Phonics: /t/t . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 Phonics: /o/o. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 Phonics: /e/e. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141 Comprehension: Make Predictions . . . . . . . . . . . 62 Comprehension: Make Predictions . . . . . . . . . . . 102 Comprehension: Main Idea and Details . . . . . . . 142 High-Frequency Word: see . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 High-Frequency Word: is. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 High-Frequency Words: this, do. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143 Phonemic Awareness: /t/. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 Phonemic Awareness: /o/ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 Phonemic Awareness: /e/ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145 Phonics: Blending at . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 Phonics: Blending o. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 Phonics: Blending e. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146 Week 2: Traveling Far and Near Week 2: How Animals Grow and Change Week 2: Seasons Phonics: /i/i. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 Phonics: /f/f . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 Phonics: /b/b. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147 Comprehension: Classify and Categorize. . . . . . 68 Comprehension: Classify and Categorize. . . . . . 108 Comprehension: Setting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148 High-Frequency Word: go. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 High-Frequency Word: play . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109 High-Frequency Words: and, what . . . . . . . . . . . 149 Phonemic Awareness: /i/. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 Phonemic Awareness: /f/. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111 Phonics: /l/l. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151 Phonics: Blending it. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 Phonics: Blending f . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112 Phonics: Blending b, l . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152 Week 3: Wheels All Around Week 3: Animal Homes Week 3: How Weather Affects Us Phonics: /t/t . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 Phonics: /o/o. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113 Phonics: /e/e. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153 Comprehension: Character, Plot . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 Comprehension: Plot, Character . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114 Comprehension: Fantasy and Reality . . . . . . . . . 154 High-Frequency Words: see, go . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 High-Frequency Words: is, play . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115 High-Frequency Words: this, do, and, what . . . . 155 Phonics: /i/i. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 Phonics: /f/f . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 Phonics: /b/b, /l/l. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157 Phonics: Blending it, at . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 Phonics: Blending f, o . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118 Phonics: Blending ip, it, id . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158 Review Phonics: /t/t, /i/i . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 Review Phonics: /o/o, /f/f . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119 Review Phonics: /e/e, /b/b, /l/l. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159 PK_PW_TOC_193627.indd 3 3/14/06 2:23:47 PM Unit 8 Plants Unit 10 I Know A Lot! Week 1: How Trees Grow Week 1: Show What You Know Phonics: /k/k. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161 Phonics: /j/j. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201 Comprehension: Sequence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162 Comprehension: Use Illustrations . . . . . . . . . . . . 202 High-Frequency Words: little, said. . . . . . . . . . . . 163 High-Frequency Words: with, my . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203 Phonemic Awareness: /k/ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165 Phonics: /kw/qu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205 Phonics: Blending ck. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166 Phonics: Blending j, qu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206 Week 2: Seeds and Plants Week 2: Art All Around Phonics: /u/u. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167 Phonics: /y/y . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207 Comprehension: Retell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168 Comprehension: Cause and Effect. . . . . . . . . . . . 208 High-Frequency Words: here, was. . . . . . . . . . . . 169 High-Frequency Words: me, where . . . . . . . . . . . 209 Phonemic Awareness: /u/ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171 Phonics: /z/z . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211 Phonics: Blending u. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172 Phonics: Blending z. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212 Week 3: What’s In My Garden? Week 3: Let’s Count Down! Phonics: /k/k. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173 Phonics: /j/j, /kw/qu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213 Comprehension: Draw Conclusions. . . . . . . . . . . 174 Comprehension: Setting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214 High-Frequency Words: little, said, High-Frequency Words: with, my, here, was. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175 me, where. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215 Phonics: /u/u. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177 Phonics: /y/y, /z/z . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217 Phonics: Blending ick . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178 Phonics: Blending up, ut, un . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218 Review Phonics: /i/i, /u/u, /k/k, /k/ck. . . . . . . . . . . 179 Review Phonics: Rhyming Words . . . . . . . . . . . . 219 Unit 9 Amazing Creatures Week 1: Interesting Insects Phonics: /g/g. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181 Comprehension: Classify and Categorize. . . . . . 182 High-Frequency Words: she, he . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183 Phonics: /w/w . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185 Phonics: Blending w . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186 Week 2: The Amazing Ocean Phonics: /ks/x . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187 Comprehension: Compare and Contrast. . . . . . . 188 High-Frequency Words: has, look . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189 Phonics: /v/v . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191 Phonics: Blending x, v. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192 Week 3: Animals Now and Then Phonics: /g/g, /w/w. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193 Comprehension: Fantasy and Reality . . . . . . . . . 194 High-Frequency Words: she, he, has, look. . . . . . 195 Phonics: /ks/x, /v/v . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197 Phonics: Blending ed, en. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198 Phonemic Awareness: /g/, /w/. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199 PK_PW_TOC_193627.indd 4 3/14/06 2:23:49 PM Name The Alphabet (cid:20)(cid:46) (cid:21)(cid:47) (cid:22)(cid:48) (cid:23)(cid:49) (cid:24)(cid:50) (cid:25)(cid:51) (cid:26)(cid:52) (cid:27)(cid:53) (cid:28)(cid:54) (cid:29)(cid:55) (cid:30)(cid:56) (cid:31)(cid:57) (cid:32)(cid:58) (cid:33)(cid:59) (cid:34)(cid:60) (cid:35)(cid:61) (cid:36)(cid:62) (cid:37)(cid:63) (cid:38)(cid:64) (cid:39)(cid:65) (cid:40)(cid:66) (cid:41)(cid:67) (cid:42)(cid:68) (cid:43)(cid:69) Hill w- a Gr c M n/ a mill (cid:44)(cid:70) (cid:45)(cid:71) c a M © 1 PPKK__PPWW__UUSSSS__WW11__119933662277..iinndddd 11 55//2266//0055 22::5522::2200 PPMM Name A a B b C c D d A a B b C c D d A a B b C c D d A a B b C c D d E e F f G g H h E e F f G g H h Ee F f G g H h E e F f G g H h I i J j K k L l I i J j K k L l I i J j K k L l I i J j K k L l M m N n O o Pp M m N n O o Pp M m N n O o Pp M m N n O o Pp Q q R r S s T t Q q R r S s T t Q q R r S s T t Q q R r S s T t U u V v W w U u V v W w U u V v W w U u V v W w Hill w- a Gr c M n/ a X x Y y Z z mill X x Y y Z z ac X x Y y Z z M X x Y y Z z © 2 PPKK__PPWW__UUSSSS__WW11__119933662277..iinndddd 22 55//2266//0055 22::5522::3344 PPMM Name Hill w- a Gr c M n/ a mill c a M © Respond to the Big Book: Animals in the Park: An ABC Book At Home: Name the animals. Then draw another animal from the story. Ask your child to tell a story about the animals. Start Smart: We Are Special • Week 1 3 PK_PW_USS_W1_193627.indd 3 2/28/06 2:08:37 PM Name I . I . I . I . Hill w- a Gr c M n/ a mill c a M © High-Frequency Word: I At Home: Read the sentences: I draw. I read. I run. I eat. Ask your child to read the sentences aloud. 4 Start Smart: We Are Special • Week 1 PPKK__PPWW__UUSSSS__WW11__119933662277..iinndddd 44 55//2266//0055 22::5522::4499 PPMM Name Aa Bb Cc Dd Ee Ff Gg Hh Ii Jj Kk Ll Mm Nn Oo Pp Qq Rr Ss Tt Uu Vv Ww Xx Yy Zz A B C D a b c d Hill w- a Gr c M n/ a mill c a M © Letter Recognition: Aa - Dd At Home: Name each letter. Draw a line to connect the capital and Ask your child to point to lowercase forms of the same letter. and name each letter. Start Smart: We Are Special • Week 1 5 PPKK__PPWW__UUSSSS__WW11__119933662277..iinndddd 55 11//2277//0077 88::2233::2266 PPMM Name Aa Bb Cc Dd Ee Ff Gg Hh Ii Jj Kk Ll Mm Nn Oo Pp Qq Rr Ss Tt Uu Vv Ww Xx Yy Zz E F G H e f g h Hill w- a Gr c M n/ a mill c a M © Letter Recognition: Ee - Hh At Home: Name each letter. Draw a line to connect the capital and Ask your child to point to lowercase forms of the same letter. and name each letter. 6 Start Smart: We Are Special • Week 1 PPKK__PPWW__UUSSSS__WW11__119933662277..iinndddd 66 11//2277//0077 88::2233::3355 PPMM