Louisiana Instructional Materials Review

About KinderCorner 2nd Edition Plus

The KinderCorner 2nd Edition Plus curriculum is a comprehensive language- and literacy-based curriculum, consisting of one one-week and fifteen two-week thematic units, that provides daily opportunities for students to demonstrate their comprehension of narrative and expository texts. The teacher engages students in the interactive reading of texts, using background information and personal experiences to help students comprehend, draw conclusions, and make predictions about these texts.

Midyear, KinderCorner 2nd Edition Plus introduces simple, phonetically regular stories that students read with support. Each of these stories provides students with the opportunity to use background information to assist their comprehension while they read, make predictions, and answer questions during story discussion. During class discussions, students are encouraged to support their responses with evidence from the text.

The following daily components support and implement these skills:

  • Theme Exploration—Students discuss the daily focus for the unit, frequently using expository texts to initiate understanding and exploration of the theme-related concepts for the unit and the day.
  • Story Telling and Retelling (STaR)—The teacher and students engage in interactive story reading. The teacher poses questions before, during, and after reading. During this process, students use the cooperative-learning strategy Think-Pair-Share to discuss the answers to story-related questions that focus on comprehension, drawing conclusions, making predictions and evaluations, and making comparisons with students’ own experiences.
  • Writing lab—Students have a daily opportunity to engage in writing activities based on information from theme-related texts. The prompts and teacher facilitation of this lab engage students in writing experiences that allow them to demonstrate their understanding of information and concepts presented in both narrative and expository texts. Students have access to the texts read during Theme Exploration and STaR so they can use them as references when writing.
  • Write Away—Each day, students respond to a writing prompt that is related to the thematic focus of the day. These prompts often connect to theme-related concepts, with a focus on comprehension of and opinions on a subject from books that students have read or heard.
  • Stepping Stones—This daily component targets beginning-reading skills. In units 2–6, the students focus on learning letter sounds, reading simple, phonetically regular words, and learning concepts of print. Several sight words are also introduced.
  • KinderRoots—In unit 7, students combine the concepts-of-print, phonics, and sight-word skills that they learned during Stepping Stones with the listening-comprehension skills developed during STaR to read KinderRoots Shared Stories. These stories target students’ ability to read easily decodable words and to demonstrate comprehension and story-related writing.
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General Resources

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Kinder Corner / Descubre Conmigo Theme Guides

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Kinder Corner / Descubre Conmigo Big Books

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Kinder Corner Concepts of Print Books

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KinderRoots Phonics

Kinder Corner Shared Stories

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