ELA K-2

Kindergarten, First Grade, and Second Grade Instructional Resources

A young first grade Connections Academy student reading a book at a library.

Key Instructional Resources

This page has the ELA K-2 resources and information needed to help teachers implement the courses and make the biggest possible impact on student achievement.

What is Acadience?
(LINKS ARE STILL TO GOOGLE DOCS)

By the end of First Grade, students should successfully be reading words with the decoding patterns in the Kindergarten and First Grade decoding scope and sequence.

Screening Tool: Acadiance PSF
May Goal = segment 40 phonemes in 1 min. (PSF)

Screening Tool: Acadience NWF
May Goal = 28 correct letter sounds/min. (NWF)

What if students do not meet the goal?
Diagnostic Tool: Phonological Awareness Assessment

This is for all your screening purposes.
Complete resource
(Acadience is similar to DIBELS, FastBridge, AimsWeb, Renaissance CBM, etc.)