Kindergarten State Standards

Year Long Activities:

• write first and last name

• letter identification

• letter sound identification

• handwriting

• basic sight words

• identify front cover, back cover and title page of book

• follow words from left to right

• identify common signs and logos

• identify beginning consonant sounds in single syllable words

• listen to stories and poems

• recognize rhyming words

• increase vocabulary to include nmber words, nouns, adjectives and vers

• begin to follow one-step and two-step directions

• express ideas in complete sentences

• orally identify beginning and ending sounds

• read ten high frequency words

• use pictures to make predictions about text

• retell stories using beginning, middle and end

• identify author and illustrator

• discuss characters, settings and events

• divide words into syllables

• draw pictures and/or use letters and phonetically spelled words to write

• write left to right and top to bottom