Read Kansas! Primary - P-03 Kansas Symbols Bingo
This kindergarten lesson introduces eight Kansas symbols through short expository texts that are read to the students. The lesson encourages class discussions of the texts. A Kansas symbols poem is used in an echo reading exercise. The lesson also includes a Kansas Symbols Bingo game to reinforce the students’ knowledge of Kansas state symbols. The lesson is presented to be used over five days, but can be adjusted to meet specific class schedules. Select each image to see a PDF with the front and back of each card.
Spanish translations for each card have been provided by students in the Spanish classes of Roberto Barrera, Fredonia High School.
Kansas History, Government and Social Studies Standards:
Standard #5: Relationships among people, places, ideas, and environments are dynamic
- 5.3: The student will investigate the relationship among people, places, ideas, and/or the environment and connect those relationships to contemporary issues.
Kansas College and Career Ready Standards:
- RF.K.3a: The student knows and applies grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words--a. demonstrates basic knowledge of one-to-one letter-sound correspondences by producing the primary or many of the most frequent sounds for each consonant.
- RI.K.1: The student with prompting and support, asks and answers questions about key details in a text.