Appendix – Implementing District Standards
Connecticut Social Studies Framework: Kindergarten – Me and My Community
In Kindergarten, students engage in the study of themselves, their families, and their communities and learn how to participate and use effective citizenship skills. They explore their classrooms, schools, neighborhoods, and home communities through an interdisciplinary approach including history, civics, economics, and geography. The study of themselves, their families, and their communities requires that students generate and research questions such as:
What is my role in my community?
What is “history” and how is the past different from the present?
How are we connected to the past?
Change, Continuity and Context
HIST K.1 Compare life in the past to life today.
HIST K.2 Generate questions about individuals and groups who have shaped a significant historical change.
Compelling Question:
- How do our communities and the people who live in them change over time?
Supporting Questions:
- How does the time in which we live affect us?
- How is the past different from today?
- How has my family changed (where they live, what they do)?
Perspectives
HIST K.3 Compare perspectives of people in the past to those in the present.
Compelling Question:
- Were people in the past the same as people today?
Supporting Questions:
- How do past experiences shape who we are today (family, home, school)?
- How is my family’s past similar to and different from my peers’ families?
Common Core State Standards: Kindergarten – Reading Informational Text
CCSS ELA-Literacy RI K.1: With prompting and support, students will ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
CCSS ELA-Literacy RI K.2: With prompting and support, students can identify the main topic and retell key details of a text.
CCSS ELA-Literacy RI K.3: With prompting and support, students will be able to describe the connection between two individuals, events, ideas, or pieces of information in a text.
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