Lindop School
Kindergarten Accomplishments - Student Literacy Expectations
- Phonemic Awareness
- Understands that words are composed of speech sounds.
- Distinguishes beginning consonant sounds.
- Distinguishes final consonant sounds.
- Combines sounds into words.
- Identifies rhyming words.
- Produces rhyming words.
- Knowledge of Books
- Knows the parts of a book and their function: title page, author, illustrator, dedication.
- Tracks left to right, top to bottom.
- Tracks words one-to-one in a book.
- Knowledge of Alphabet
- Recites the letters of the alphabet in sequence.
- Names upper and lower case letters of alphabet.
- Beginning Phonics Knowledge and Word Knowledge
- Understands alphabet principle: A sequence of letter in a written word represents the sequence of sounds (phonemes) in a spoken word.
- Corresponds sounds to letters of the alphabet.
- Recognizes some words by sight.
- Reading Comprehension
- Uses own experiences and picture clues to help predict meaning.
- Approximates reading by looking at pictures in text and talking about content.
- Comprehends stories read aloud.
- Retells a story in sequence; re-enacts or dramatizes parts of stories.
- Writing and Spelling
- Dictates words and stories.
- Draws a picture that tells a story.
- Labels picture with semi-phonetic level spelling (some sound/some letter correspondence).
- Copies upper case and lower case letters of the alphabet.
- Writes correctly his/her name.
- Uses conventional spelling with small repertoire of words.
- Listening and Speaking
- Listens attentively and actively to teacher and other students.
- Follows two-step directions.
- Expresses ideas, thinks creatively, and organizes information in ways appropriate to kindergarten.
- Speaks in complete sentences.
Select a link below to see the Literacy Expectations per grade level.
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