Manitoba
Skills available for Manitoba kindergarten English language arts curriculum
Objectives are in black and IXL English language arts skills are in dark green. Hold your mouse over the name of a skill to view a sample question. Click on the name of a skill to practise that skill.
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- Manitoba Curriculum Framework Manitoba Curriculum Framework
- WNCP Common Curriculum Frameworks WNCP Common Curriculum Frameworks
- Manitoba Curriculum Manitoba Curriculum
Actions
Language as Sense Making
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Access, use, build, and refine schema.
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Select from and use a variety of strategies.
- Which could happen in real life? (K-S.1)
- What is the picture about? (K-T.1)
- Which feeling matches the picture? (K-U.1)
- What will happen next? (K-U.2)
- What am I? (K-V.1)
- Use number words: one to ten (K-W.1)
- Use colour words (K-W.2)
- Compare pictures using adjectives (K-X.1)
- Find the picture that matches the action verb (K-X.2)
- Inside and outside, above and below, next to and beside (K-Y.1)
- Choose the best location word to match the picture (K-Y.2)
- Who, what, when, where or why? (K-Z.1)
- Match synonyms (K-AA.1)
- Match antonyms to pictures (K-AA.2)
- Sort objects into categories (K-BB.1)
- Which one is not like the others? (K-BB.2)
- Multiple-meaning words with pictures (K-CC.1)
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Be aware of and articulate the ways that one engages with text.
Language as System
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Recognize, apply, and adapt rules and conventions (e.g., form, genre, grammar, register, punctuation, elements of design, spelling, legibility).
- Choose the lowercase letter that matches: review (K-B.1)
- Find the lowercase letters (K-B.2)
- Choose the uppercase letter that matches: review (K-B.3)
- Find the uppercase letters (K-B.4)
- Put the letters in ABC order (K-B.5)
- Choose the two words that are the same (K-C.1)
- Choose the sentence that is spaced correctly (K-C.2)
- Find a word in a sentence (K-C.3)
- Sort consonants and vowels (K-D.1)
- Find the vowel in the word (K-D.2)
- How many syllables does the word have? (K-E.1)
- Which word has more syllables? (K-E.2)
- Sort by the number of syllables (K-E.3)
- Which two words have the same ending? (K-F.2)
- Choose the picture that rhymes with the word (K-F.3)
- Which word does not rhyme? (K-F.4)
- Complete the rhyme (K-F.5)
- Blend each sound in a word together (K-G.2)
- Identify the first, second and last sound in a word (K-G.3)
- Put the sounds in order (K-G.4)
- Choose the letter that matches the consonant sound: review (K-H.5)
- Which letter does the word start with? (K-H.6)
- Which letter does the word end with? (K-H.7)
- Which consonant blend does the word start with? (K-I.1)
- Complete the word with the right initial consonant blend (K-I.2)
- Does the word start with a consonant blend? (K-I.3)
- Which consonant blend does the word end with? (K-I.4)
- Complete the word with the right final consonant blend (K-I.5)
- Does the word end with a consonant blend? (K-I.6)
- Choose the word that matches the picture: -ss, -ll, -ff, -zz, -ck (K-I.7)
- Choose the correct digraph (K-I.8)
- Choose the short a sentence that matches the picture (K-J.2)
- Complete the short a word (K-J.3)
- Choose the short a word that matches the picture (K-J.4)
- Choose the picture that matches the short e word (K-K.2)
- Complete the short e word (K-K.3)
- Choose the short e sentence that matches the picture (K-K.4)
- Choose the short i word that matches the picture (K-L.2)
- Complete the short i words (K-L.3)
- Choose the short i sentence that matches the picture (K-L.4)
- Choose the short o word that matches the picture (K-M.2)
- Complete the short o word (K-M.3)
- Choose the short o sentence that matches the picture (K-M.4)
- Choose the picture that matches the short u word (K-N.2)
- Complete the short u word (K-N.3)
- Choose the short u sentence that matches the picture (K-N.4)
- Complete the word with the right short vowel (K-O.2)
- Spell the short vowel word (K-O.3)
- Which two words have the same vowel sound? (K-P.2)
- Find the long a word (K-P.3)
- Find the long e word (K-P.4)
- Find the long i word (K-P.5)
- Find the long o word (K-P.6)
- Find the long u word (K-P.7)
- Sort short and long vowel words (K-P.8)
- Identify book parts and features (K-R.1)
- Use number words: one to ten (K-W.1)
- Use colour words (K-W.2)
- Compare pictures using adjectives (K-X.1)
- Find the picture that matches the action verb (K-X.2)
- Inside and outside, above and below, next to and beside (K-Y.1)
- Choose the best location word to match the picture (K-Y.2)
- Who, what, when, where or why? (K-Z.1)
- Is it a telling sentence or an asking sentence? (K-DD.1)
- Identify and use end marks (K-DD.2)
- Find the complete sentence (K-DD.3)
- Unscramble the words to make a complete sentence (K-DD.4)
- Capitalize the first letter of a sentence (K-EE.1)
- Capitalize the pronoun "I" (K-EE.2)
- Is the noun a person, animal, place or thing? (K-FF.1)
- Choose the singular or plural noun that matches the picture (K-FF.2)
- Find the action verb (K-GG.2)
- Complete the sentence with an action verb to match the picture (K-GG.3)
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Identify, analyze, and apply understandings of whole-part-whole relationships (e.g., function and relationship of parts within a whole design, cueing systems, fluency, word study).
- Find a word in a sentence (K-C.3)
- Choose the short a sentence that matches the picture (K-J.2)
- Choose the short e sentence that matches the picture (K-K.4)
- Choose the short i sentence that matches the picture (K-L.4)
- Choose the short o sentence that matches the picture (K-M.4)
- Choose the short u sentence that matches the picture (K-N.4)
- Complete the sentence with the correct short vowel word (K-O.4)
- Read questions with short vowel words (K-O.5)
- Choose the two sight words that are the same (K-Q.1)
- Read sight words: review sets 1–10 (K-Q.15)
- Complete the sentence with the correct sight word (K-Q.16)
- Spell the sight word (K-Q.17)
- Sort objects into categories (K-BB.1)
- Which one is not like the others? (K-BB.2)
- Multiple-meaning words with pictures (K-CC.1)
Language as Exploration and Design
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Research and study topics and ideas.
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Interpret and integrate information and ideas from multiple texts and sources.
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Manage information and ideas.
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Invent, take risks, and reflect to create possibilities.
Language as Power and Agency
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Recognize and analyze inequities, viewpoints, and bias in texts and ideas.
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Investigate complex moral and ethical issues and conflicts.
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Contemplate the actions that can be taken, consider alternative viewpoints, and contribute other perspectives.