Description:  Beginning in kindergarten, English Language Arts instruction focuses on developing students' skills for reading, writing, speaking and listening, and language. Foundational literacy standards are presented in a progression beginning with foundational skills to the sophisticated application of oral and written language. Students work toward mastery of standards that include: print concepts, phonological awareness, phonics and word recognition, word and sentence composition, and fluency.

Materials: 

• Really Great Reading
• CKLA 2nd Edition 
• Handwriting- Zaner-Bloser

Tennessee Language Arts Standards

Description: The standards for each grade are a progression. Each of the progressions begins in Kindergarten, with a constant movement toward high school standards as a student advances through the grades. There are four main progressions that are composed of mathematical domains/conceptual categories. Kindergarten focuses on Counting and Cardinality, Number and Operations in Base Ten,Operations and Algebraic Thinking, Geometry and Measurement and Data.

Materials: 

• McGraw Hill - Reveal Math

Tennessee Math Standards 

Description: In kindergarten, students are introduced to matter and its interactions by constructing experiments with solids and liquids. Students make connections and use senses by classifying observable properties of matter and classifying living and nonliving things. Throughout the year, Kindergarten students use their observation skills to identify weather patterns and seasons. Students also use observations and evidence to identify the relationship between earth and human activities.

Materials: 

• HMH Tennessee Science
• Mystery Science
• Picture Perfect STEM
• PBL Project

Tennessee Academic Standards for Science 

Description: The World Around Us- Kindergarten students will build upon experiences with their families, schools, and communities as an introduction to social studies. 

Materials: 

• TN Studies Weekly: World Around US
• TN History for Kids Booklets

Tennessee Social Studies Standards

Description: The course of instruction in all public schools for kindergarten through grade eight (K-8) shall include art and music education to help each student foster creative thinking, spatial learning, discipline, craftsmanship and the intrinsic rewards of hard work. All students are engaged in sequential standards-based arts instruction. 

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Tennessee Academic Standards for Fine Arts Education 

Description: The Tennessee School Counseling Student Standards describe the attitudes, knowledge, skills, and experiences that students need to achieve academic success, social and emotional development, and college and career readiness. The standards are organized in three broad domains: academic development, social and emotional development, and college and career readiness. These domains promote the attitudes, knowledge, skills, and experiences that enhance the learning process and create a culture of college and

Materials: 

• Second Step

Tennessee School Counseling Standards

Description: All school libraries shall serve as resources for students, teachers, and community members to strengthen student learning. School library information specialists shall work collaboratively with classroom teachers and school administrators to integrate both curricular concepts and information skills that assist research and other learning activities. The collection and the services of the library shall adequately support the curricular priorities within the school.

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Tennessee Library Standards

Description: The course of instruction in all public schools for kindergarten through grade eight (K-8) shall include art and music education to help each student foster creative thinking, spatial learning, discipline, craftsmanship and the intrinsic rewards of hard work. All students are engaged in sequential standards-based arts instruction.

Materials: 

• Quaver

Tennessee Academic Standards for Fine Arts