How this resource helps
Identify characters, settings and major events with prompting and support. This 104-page Kindergarten packet includes 30 multiple-choice diagnostics and 30 actual open/performance opportunities, 3 daily learning targets, seven teaching sections, worked models, organizers, full answer guidance and rubric. Included reading: Sizwe’s Smile. Use actual story evidence; scene labels are teaching locators, not original print page numbers. Complete or revisit the supplied reading with the support described in the guide before source-dependent tasks. Full reading, unused bank items and extended projects require time beyond the selected 80-minute core. Source credits, scope and changes: Sizwe’s Smile: Vianne Venter (writer), Genevieve Terblanche (illustrator), Lauren Rycroft (designer). Book Dash, 2014. Exact source: https://bookdash.github.io/bookdash-books/sizwes-smile/en/ Publisher/free source: https://bookdash.org/books/sizwes-smile/ Licensed Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ . Complete 687-word narrative and all 12 illustrations. Text reflowed, illustrations resized, teaching scene labels added; two missing spaces in scene 10 restored. Original Saint Pierre prompts, models, guides, organizers and rubrics are separately identified. Preview JPEGs add a translucent SAMPLE label; purchased PDF does not. No creator or publisher endorsement is implied. Included source texts, translations and illustrations remain under CC BY 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ . You may copy, share, redistribute, adapt and reuse those components commercially with required attribution, license links and change notices. Store copying, redistribution, resale and adaptation limits do NOT apply to CC-licensed source components; no DRM or additional legal/technical restrictions may be applied to them. Single-teacher classroom-use terms apply only to separately identified original Saint Pierre instructional additions; do not resell or redistribute those additions. Font licenses retain their separate conditions. No ownership of licensed source works is claimed. NC 2017 alignment for 2026–27; original publisher alignment summaries, no NC DPI endorsement. No certified Lexile, universal decodability or full-year mastery claim. Format and shared reading disclosure: Printable, non-fillable PDF only; no editable Word or slide files, prerecorded audio or video are included. An adult reads the story and presents its pictures. The Kindergarten RL.K.1, RL.K.2, RL.K.3, RL.K.4, RL.K.6, RL.K.7 and RL.K.10 packets reuse the same complete Sizwe’s Smile story and illustrations while targeting different skills; these are not separate books or new sets of illustrations.
What’s Included
- 104-page printable PDF
- Sizwe’s Smile — exact scope detailed below
- 30 multiple-choice diagnostics and 30 performance opportunities
- 3 daily targets and seven teaching sections
- Worked models, organizers, complete answer guidance and rubric
- Full 104-page SAMPLE preview
- Source attribution, license and change notices
Resource details
- Grade / course
- Kindergarten
- Subject and resource type
- English Language Arts — Identify characters, settings and major events · Complete Teaching Packet
- Files
- 104 main PDF pages · PDF
- Estimated completion time
- Selected 80-minute core; remaining bank tasks are distributed across later sessions. Complete or revisit the supplied reading with the support described in the guide before source-dependent tasks. Full reading, unused bank items and extended projects require time beyond the selected 80-minute core. Daily targets are a flexible progression, not a mastery deadline.
- Answer key
- Choice keys with reasons and performance examples/observation guidance. Collect actual learner responses, process or participation required by the task; models and correct choices are not substitutes. Record support and unobserved evidence rather than inventing outcomes.
Standard or objective
RL.K.3