READING

student will demonstrate knowledge of letters, letter sounds, and concepts of print in order to:

Pronounce the word to which they are pointing
Recognize that print represents spoken language and provides information
Identify and read everyday print such as signs, logos, and labels
Recognize that names are made up of letters
Identify long and short names and words
Follow text with their finger, pointing to each word as it is read
Choose and adapt an appropriate volume and tone of spoken language
Identify the front and back cover of a book
Recognize that the alphabet is made up of letters
Understand that the alphabet is a series of letters in a specific order
Recognize that uppercase letters are used at the beginning of names and titles
Match speech to text
Distinguish letters from words
Independently write his name
Segment syllables into words
Segment sentences into words
Clap out and track syllables in words
Clap out words in sentences
Isolate the initial (beginning), medial (middle), final (ending) sounds in words
Identify words with the same beginning sound
Identify the number of sounds in a word
Manipulate phonemes
Identify all uppercase and lowercase letters of the alphabet and the sounds they represent
Know the difference between consonants and vowels
Identify the sounds of short and long vowels
Identify and write all uppercase and lowercase letters of the alphabet
Match each letter of the alphabet to the sound it makes
Use knowledge of letter sounds to read simple one syllable words

student will apply their knowledge of letters and letter sounds to:

Build and read simple one syllable words with word families: -am, -at, -an, -ap, -it, -ig, -it, -ig, -ip, -in, -ot, -op, -og, -ot, -et, -en, -ed, -ut, -un, -ut, -ug, -ub
Blend to read words with all short vowels

Your student will practice his written and verbal reading skills in order to:

Speak in complete sentences
Recognize that words make sentences
Recognize that there are spaces between words
Know the difference between a sentence that asks a question and one that gives information
Know how to ask and answer questions
Identify and sort common words into basic categories
Categorize animals according to where they live
Recognize end punctuation
Recite poems
Describe people, things, locations, and actions in both general and specific language
Identify the following types of words: naming, action, descriptive, feeling, color, opposites, rhyming, and position

student will learn and apply the following reading comprehension skills with everything that he reads in order to:

Connect his own life experiences to the story
Use pictures and text to make predictions
Identify and discuss story vocabulary
Identify title, author, and illustrator
Identify the beginning, middle, and ending of a story
Use graphic organizers (ex. word web) to organize information
Retell the story (using pantomime, song, drama, finger puppets, etc.)
Identify fiction and its basic characteristics
Identify nonfiction and its basic characteristics
Identify repetition in a text
Identify rhyme
Identify main ideas and details
Summarize the story
Identify the main characters and make judgments
Describe story events and identify the sequence those events
Distinguish between real and make-believe
React to character actions and understand their feelings
Recognize and identify the problem and solution of the story
Compare and contrast different types of literature
Make inferences
Use pictures and illustrations to understand the story content
Draw conclusions about the story
Recall facts from the text
Retell the story by acting it out
Tell an alternate ending to the story
Identify cause and effect in the story
Identify a lesson in a story
Use context clues to figure out the meanings of unknown words

student will read, understand, and/or write the following pieces of literature:

Song (write lyrics, act out)
Poem
Make-believe story
Nonfiction
Directions (one and two step)
Nursery rhyme
Folktale
Play (finger play, pantomime, retell story in dramatic form)

student will participate in the following author studies:

Marc Brown, Dr. Seuss (Theodore Seuss Geisel), Aliki, Tomie dePaola, Johanna Cole and Bruce Degan, and the poet Tedd Arnold

Sight Words:

the, a, so, am, be, was, my, he, are, but, I, at, she, is, get, can, have, that, like, said, big, look, no, yes, of, this, to, do, red, blue, and, we, it, did, yellow, green, me, on, into, out, purple, orange, ran, with, went, our, black, brown, what, who, must, now, want, all, little