US homeschool curriculum · Kindergarten
Kindergarten Language Arts
A self-paced online Language Arts course for Kindergarten: 25 lessons across 7 units. A short placement quiz finds the right starting point, practice adapts as your child answers, and every lesson is marked automatically with progress reported to you.
- Every lesson has at least two different question styles, with hints and step-by-step worked solutions.
- Struggling triggers a gentler re-teach and a warm-up on the missing building block — never a visible drop in score.
- Work this course at its own level: a child can take Kindergarten Language Arts alongside a different grade in Math.
What your child learns
The scope and sequence below is generated from the live curriculum, so it is always what the app actually teaches.
Phonics and word reading
- Blend sounds to read simple words: Can blend the sounds in a simple three-letter word (like c-a-t) to read it.
- Spot common two-letter sounds: Can pick out a word containing a taught digraph such as sh, ch, th or ng.
- Read words ending in -s or -es: Can read a word with -s or -es added to show there is more than one.
- Read words ending in -ing or -ed: Can read a word with -ing or -ed added.
- Read tricky words: Can read tricky words that aren't spelled the way they sound, in a sentence.
Spelling
- Spell tricky words: Can spell tricky words that aren't spelled the way they sound.
- Add -s or -es to make a plural: Can add -s or -es to a word to show there is more than one.
- Add the prefix un-: Can add un- to the front of a word to change its meaning to the opposite.
- Add -ing, -ed, -er or -est: Can add -ing, -ed, -er or -est to a word where no spelling change is needed.
- Put words in alphabetical order: Can say which of a group of words comes first alphabetically, using the first letter.
Grammar
- Join two ideas with 'and': Can pick the sentence that correctly joins two short ideas using 'and'.
- Choose 'a' or 'an': Can choose 'a' or 'an' correctly in front of a noun.
- Spot a question: Can pick out which sentence is a question.
- Spot the correctly ordered sentence: Can pick out which version of a sentence has its words in the right order.
Punctuation
- Choose the right end punctuation: Can choose whether a sentence ends with a period, question mark or exclamation point.
- Start a sentence with a capital letter: Can pick out the sentence that correctly starts with a capital letter.
- Capital letters for names, places, days and 'I': Can pick out the sentence that correctly capitalizes names, places, days of the week and 'I'.
Vocabulary
- Choose a word that means the same: Can choose a word that means almost the same as a given word.
- Choose the opposite word: Can choose the word that means the opposite of a given word.
- Choose the best word for a sentence: Can pick the word that best completes a sentence.
Reading comprehension
- Say what happened first in a story: Can say which event happened first in a short story.
- Find a fact in a short passage: Can answer a simple question by finding the answer in a short passage.
- Predict what happens next: Can predict what is likely to happen next in a short story.
Writing
- Spot the sentence that makes sense: Can pick out which sentence makes sense.
- Choose a describing word: Can choose the describing word (adjective) that best fits a sentence.
Language Arts uses American spelling, punctuation and conventions throughout. It is not mapped to the Common Core ELA standards — the lesson list above is the honest description of what it teaches.