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Literature |
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Read or listen to a minimum of 25 books, including
4 - 6 from the approved list. |
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Concepts
of Print |
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Identify front cover, title page, and back
cover.
Follow words from left to right and top to
bottom.
Recognize that sentences are made up of separate
words.
Distinguish letters from words.
Recognize and name all upper and lowercase
letters. |
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Phonemic
Awareness |
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Count each word in a sentence.
Count each syllable in a word.
Count each sound in a word.
Distinguish beginning, middle, and ending
sounds in a single syllable word.
Blend vowel-consonant sounds orally to make
words.
Identify and produce a rhyming word in response
to a prompt.
Manipulate phonemes within a word (e.g., change
pan to man; hot to hat; bit to it). |
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Decoding
and Word Recognition |
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Match all consonant and short vowel sounds
to appropriate letters.
Recognize consonants.
Recognize short vowels.
Read simple one syllable and high frequency
words. |
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Vocabulary
and Concept Development |
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Sort common words into basic categories (e.g.,
colors, shapes, and foods). |
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Reading
Comprehension |
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Use pictures and context to make predictions
about a story.
Connect real life experiences to the information
and events in books.
Ask and answer questions about a particular
passage. |
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Literary
Response |
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Identify a story as real or make-believe.
Identify beginning, middle, and end of a story.
Identify characters, settings, and key events. |
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Writing
Strategies and Skills |
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Write by moving left to right and top to bottom.
Use letters and "temporary spelling"
to write words.
Write first and last name using upper- and
lower-case letters.
Write consonant-vowel-consonant words.
Write upper- and lower-case letters independently.
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Writing
Applications |
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Copy (part or all of dictated*) stories using
complete sentences. (See Speaking/Listening
Skills).
Dictate or write brief narrative stories based
on personal or imagined experience with a
clear beginning, middle, and end.
Dictate or write brief descriptions of a real
or imagined object, person, or place. |
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Writing
Conventions |
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Write dictated words using short vowel spelling
patterns. |
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Listening
and Speaking |
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Understand and follow one and two step oral
directions.
Share information and ideas, speaking in complete,
coherent sentences.
Describe people, places, things, and setting
(e.g., size, shape, color).
Recite short poems, rhymes and songs.
Dictate a brief story or description. |
