Kindergarten - Gateway 3

Materials provide teacher guidance with useful annotations and suggestions for how to enact the student materials and ancillary materials, with specific attention to supporting students’ foundational literacy development.

Materials contain full, adult-level explanations and examples of the foundational skills concepts included in the program so teachers can improve their own knowledge of the subject. 

Foundational skills lessons are well-designed and take into account effective lesson structure and pacing. Content can reasonably be completed within a regular school year, and the pacing allows for maximum student understanding.

Materials contain strategies for informing all stakeholders, including students, parents, or caregivers about the foundational skills program and suggestions for how they can help support student progress and achievement.

Note: Content for this indicator is fully addressed in 3b, which covers adult-level explanations and examples of foundational skills concepts. No separate scoring is required.

Materials embed consistent teacher guidance for the use of instructional tools and supports necessary for foundational skills instruction.

Materials include publisher-produced alignment documentation of the standards addressed by specific questions, tasks, and assessments and assessment materials clearly denote which standards are being emphasized.

This is not an assessed indicator in ELA.

This is not an assessed indicator in ELA.

Materials provide strategies and supports for students in special populations to work with grade-level content and to meet or exceed grade-level standards. 

This indicator is not assessed in reviews of K-2 ELA foundational skills supplements.

This indicator is not assessed in reviews of K-2 ELA foundational skills supplements.

This indicator is not assessed in reviews of K-2 ELA foundational skills supplements.

This indicator is not assessed in reviews of K-2 ELA foundational skills supplements.

Materials provide a range of representation of people and include detailed instructions and support for educators to effectively incorporate and draw upon students’ different cultural, social, and community backgrounds to enrich learning experiences.

This is not an assessed indicator in ELA.

This is not an assessed indicator in ELA.

Materials provide embedded supports to help multilingual learners (MLLs) develop foundational reading and writing skills. Instruction draws on oral and home language resources and reflects the interdependence of language and literacy development.

Materials integrate technology such as interactive tools, virtual manipulatives/objects, and/or dynamic software in ways that engage students in the grade-level/series standards, when applicable.

This indicator is not assessed in reviews of K-2 ELA foundational skills supplements.

The visual design (whether in print or digital) is not distracting or chaotic, but supports students in engaging thoughtfully with the subject.

Materials provide teacher guidance for the use of embedded technology to support and enhance student learning, when applicable.