Kindergarten Reading ExpectationsKindergarten is considered a pivotal year in learning to read. Phonemic awareness and phonics skills are developed to help children identify the relationship between sounds, letters and words. My hope is that each child will work toward becoming an independent reader.
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Students will be learning to:
- Identify all of the letters of the alphabet (upper case and lower case) and their sounds.
- “read” books himself, mainly by memorization.
- Recognizes several basic sight words such as I, my, you, is, and are.
- Read and listen to stories and then talks about the stories, including their plots, characters, and events.
- Follow words from left to right, top to bottom, and page by page.
- Recognize and produce rhyming words.
- Add or substitute individual sounds in simple, one-syllable words to make new words, such as replacing the “C” in “Cat” with an “R” to create the word “Rat.
Five Principles of Reading
•Phonemic Awareness: The ability to hear, identify, and manipulate sounds (phonemes) in spoken words. Example: cat (c-a-t), flag (f-l-a-g) rhyming words, changing onset/rime to make new word
•Phonics: The relationship between letters and sounds. (CVC-short vowel, ex. cup; CVCe-long vowel, ex. bike; CVVC-long vowel ex. beach) •Fluency: The ability to read naturally with speed and accuracy. •Vocabulary Development: Understanding words in print (using context clues) •Text Comprehension: Understanding, remembering, and communicating what is read.. |
Increasing Reading Success at Home
By reading with your child and talking about the books you share together, you are sending a signal that reading is valued in your home. Books can elicit strong feelings that should be shared. A great way to start is to talk about what you have read recently and how it made you feel. Then, invite your child to do the same. Ask:
- If you could be friends with any character in the book, who would it be and why?
- What was the most exciting part of the book?
- What surprised you most about the story? Why was it surprising?
- What do you think the saddest part of the story was? Why?
- Is there anything in this story that is similar to something that has happened in your life? What was it and how is it similar?
- What would you do in a situation similar to that faced by a character in the story?
- What part of the story made you think it would end the way it did?
- How would you change the book's ending if you could re-write it?
- How is this book like one you read in the past? Discuss how they are alike and different. (Note: This could be a book by the same author, but doesn't have to be.)