Kindergarten Report Overview

The instructional materials reviewed for Kindergarten partially meet the expectation for alignment to the CCSSM. The materials partially meet expectations in the areas of focus and coherence and partially meet the expectations in the areas of rigor and the MPs. In the area of focus within the grade, there is a small number of above, grade-level topics included in the assessments, but it does not impact the structure of the materials. The materials spend an appropriate amount of class time on major work. In the area of coherence, the materials include content that is viable for one school year, but they only partially meet the expectations for the remainder of the indicators within coherence. The three aspects of rigor are well balanced, but each individual aspect of rigor is only partially met. In the area of practice-content connections, the materials typically identify the MPs, but they do not consistently enrich the content and do not attend to their full meaning. Students also do not consistently construct viable arguments or analyze the arguments of others, but the materials do explicitly teach the specialized language of mathematics.