Kindergarden - Kings and Queens

6 Kings and Queens: Supplemental Guide | Introduction

Anchor Focus in Kings and Queens

This chart highlights several Common Core State Standards as well as

relevant academic language associated with the activities in this domain.

Anchor Focus CCSS Description of Focus and Relevant Academic Language

Writing W.K.3 Prince/Princess for a Day

“Happily Ever After”

Students will use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to

narrate a single event.

Pretend you are.. ., draw, dictate, tell, discuss, similar, different,

alternate ending

Speaking and Listening SL.K.1b Continue a conversation through multiple exchanges

Help students to carry on and participate in extended conversations

of over four turns. There are various opportunities throughout this

domain where students are encouraged to take turns speaking

about the same topic (e.g., retelling a story, talking about fairness).

Consider providing students with the following sentence starters:

I also think that.. .; I think so too; What about.. .; I think...

SL.K.3 Ask and answer questions in order to seek help, get information, or

clarify something

Prompt students to ask questions when they are unclear about the

directions. Provide them with some phrases to use:

I have a question about ; can you please say the directions

again; what does mean?

Language L.K.1f Produce and expand sentences in shared language activities

L.K.5d Distinguish shades of meaning among verbs describing the same

general action: gaze/peek/glare; peck/poke; stumble/step

Domain Components

Along with this Supplemental Guide, you will need:

• Tell It Again! Media Disk or the Tell It Again! Flip Book* for Kings and
  Queens


• Tell It Again! Image Cards for Kings and Queens


• Tell It Again! Read-Aloud Anthology for Kings and Queens for
  reference
  *The Tell It Again! Multiple Meaning Word Posters for Kings and Queens
  are found at the back of the Tell It Again! Flip Book.