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Grade-level skills checklist
The math and reading skills your child works on, kindergarten through 6th grade.
Kindergarten
- Reading: Basic grammar (kindergarten)
- Reading: Determine word meaning (kindergarten)
- Reading: Word categories
- Reading: Print concepts
- Reading: Phonological awareness
- Reading: Letter sounds
- Reading: Questions about informational text
- Reading: Main topic of informational text
- Reading: Ask and answer questions about a story
- Reading: Retell familiar stories
- Math: Count to 100
- Math: Counting and number recognition
- Math: Compare groups of objects
- Math: Name shapes
- Math: Build and draw shapes
- Math: Compare measurable attributes
- Math: Classify and count objects in categories
- Math: Compose and decompose teen numbers
- Math: Adding and subtracting (objects and fingers)
- Math: Add and subtract within 5
Grade 1
- Reading: Grammar (grade 1)
- Reading: Use context clues (grade 1)
- Reading: Word relationships (grade 1)
- Reading: Phonological awareness (grade 1)
- Reading: Phonics and word recognition
- Reading: Read with fluency (grade 1)
- Reading: Questions about informational details
- Reading: Main topic and details (grade 1)
- Reading: Ask and answer questions about key details
- Reading: Retell stories and identify the message
- Reading: Describe characters, settings, and events
- Math: Defining attributes of shapes
- Math: Measure length with units
- Math: Tell time to the hour and half-hour
- Math: Organize and interpret data
- Math: Count and write to 120
- Math: Place value (tens and ones)
- Math: Add within 100
- Math: Word problems within 20
- Math: Properties of addition and subtraction
- Math: Add and subtract within 20 (grade 1)
- Math: Understand the equal sign
Grade 2
- Reading: Grammar (grade 2)
- Reading: Capitalization, punctuation, and spelling
- Reading: Use context clues (grade 2)
- Reading: Phonics and word analysis (grade 2)
- Reading: Questions about informational text (grade 2)
- Reading: Main topic of a multiparagraph text
- Reading: Ask and answer questions about a story
- Reading: Identify the central message of a story
- Reading: How characters respond to events
- Reading: Write an opinion (grade 2)
- Reading: Write to inform (grade 2)
- Math: Partition shapes into equal shares
- Math: Measure length with tools
- Math: Length word problems
- Math: Tell time to five minutes
- Math: Money word problems
- Math: Picture and bar graphs
- Math: Place value in three-digit numbers
- Math: Add and subtract within 1000
- Math: Word problems with + and - within 100
- Math: Add and subtract within 20
- Math: Odd and even numbers
Grade 3
- Reading: Grammar (grade 3)
- Reading: Use context clues (grade 3)
- Reading: Word analysis (grade 3)
- Reading: Text evidence in informational text
- Reading: Main idea and supporting details
- Reading: Relationships in a text
- Reading: Answer questions with text evidence
- Reading: Central message with text evidence
- Reading: How characters' actions shape events
- Reading: Write an opinion (grade 3)
- Reading: Write to inform (grade 3)
- Math: Classify shapes by attributes
- Math: Time and elapsed time
- Math: Scaled picture and bar graphs
- Math: Area
- Math: Perimeter
- Math: Add and subtract within 1000 fluently
- Math: Multiply by multiples of 10
- Math: Understand unit fractions
- Math: Interpret multiplication as equal groups
- Math: Division as an unknown factor
- Math: Multiply and divide fluency within 100
- Math: Two-step word problems
Grade 4
- Reading: Grammar (grade 4)
- Reading: Use context clues (grade 4)
- Reading: Details and inferences (informational)
- Reading: Main idea and summary (grade 4)
- Reading: Explain events and procedures
- Reading: Details and inferences (literature)
- Reading: Theme of a story or poem
- Reading: Describe characters and events with detail
- Reading: Write an opinion (grade 4)
- Reading: Write to inform (grade 4)
- Math: Lines and angles
- Math: Measurement word problems and conversions
- Math: Line plots with fractions
- Math: Measure and sketch angles
- Math: Read, write, and compare multi-digit numbers
- Math: Add and subtract multi-digit numbers
- Math: Multiply multi-digit by one-digit
- Math: Divide with remainders
- Math: Equivalent fractions
- Math: Add and subtract fractions with like denominators
- Math: Multiply a fraction by a whole number
- Math: Decimal notation for fractions
- Math: Multi-step word problems with all four operations
- Math: Factors, multiples, primes
- Math: Generate and analyze patterns
Grade 5
- Reading: Grammar (grade 5)
- Reading: Use context clues (grade 5)
- Reading: Figurative language (grade 5)
- Reading: Quote accurately (informational)
- Reading: Main ideas of informational text
- Reading: Relationships and interactions in a text
- Reading: Quote accurately (literature)
- Reading: Theme and summary (grade 5)
- Reading: Compare characters, settings, and events
- Reading: Write an opinion with reasons
- Reading: Write to inform (grade 5)
- Math: Graph points on the coordinate plane
- Math: Classify two-dimensional figures
- Math: Convert measurement units
- Math: Line plots with fraction operations
- Math: Volume of rectangular prisms
- Math: Read, write, and compare decimals
- Math: Multi-digit multiplication
- Math: Divide multi-digit whole numbers
- Math: Operations with decimals
- Math: Add and subtract fractions with unlike denominators
- Math: Multiply fractions
- Math: Divide with unit fractions
- Math: Evaluate expressions with parentheses
- Math: Patterns and ordered pairs
Grade 6
- Reading: Grammar (grade 6)
- Reading: Use context clues (grade 6)
- Reading: Figurative language (grade 6)
- Reading: Cite evidence in informational text
- Reading: Central idea and summary (informational)
- Reading: Cite textual evidence (literature)
- Reading: Theme and objective summary
- Reading: How plot and characters develop
- Reading: Write arguments with reasons and evidence
- Reading: Write to inform (grade 6)
- Math: Whole-number exponents
- Math: Write and evaluate expressions with variables
- Math: Solve one-variable equations
- Math: Relationships between two variables
- Math: Area of triangles and quadrilaterals
- Math: Divide fractions by fractions
- Math: Greatest common factor and least common multiple
- Math: Negative numbers and the coordinate plane
- Math: Order rational numbers and absolute value
- Math: Understand ratio concepts
- Math: Unit rate and percent problems
- Math: Measures of center and variability
- Math: Summarize data: center and variability
A grade-level skills checklist tells you which math and reading skills a child is expected to work on at each grade, aligned to Common Core standards. Parents use it to see what is coming, spot what their child may have missed, and pick something to practice. The list below is the set of skills KangarooKiddo covers for kindergarten through 6th grade, each linked to a practice page. It is free with no signup.