Reading

Here are some of the things we will be working on in Reading and Language Arts.  These are based on the MN State Reading and Language Arts Standards in Kindergarten:

-Identify letter sounds  (includes fancy a & g)
-Identify upper case letters
-Identify lower case letters (includes fancy a & g)
-Print uppercase and lowercase letters
-Writing a letter or letters for most consonant and vowel sounds
-Identify beginning and ending sounds
-Spell simple words phonetically
-Identify and produce rhyming words
-Read high-frequency words
-Participate in and follow rules for conversation
-Communicates needs, feelings and ideas
-Follow print from left to right and top to bottom
-Identify front cover, back cover, and title page of a book
-Turn pages sequentially from front to back
-Retell stories using beginning, middle and end
-Identify character, setting, and major events
-Describe familiar people, places, and events providing details
-Add drawings or visual displays desired to provide additional details
-Draw, write or dictate an opinion about a book
-Read emergent text with understanding
-Draw, write or dictate a narrative about an event
-Capitalize first word in the sentence and pronoun I
-Create an indvidual or multimedia work for a specific purpose