Literacy

Literary Text Comprehension Skills:

• Reading Strategies: Preview and make predictions about stories; compare and contrast elements of a story; retell stories in sequence using first/next/then/last; classify and categorize objects and information

• Literary Elements: Identify and describe characters and setting in stories; identify the main idea in stories

• Text Features: Identify the role of author and illustrator; identify the parts of a book (front cover, back cover, spine, page)

Foundational Reading Skills:

• Concepts of print: Identify the parts of a book; demonstrate understanding of reading directionality (read left to right and top to bottom)

• Letter/Sound Knowledge: Recognize all letter shapes; identify and produce the most common sounds for each letter shape

• Phonological Awareness: Identify and produce rhyming words; count syllables in words; identify initial, medial, and final sounds in words

• Reading and Spelling: Read and spell words with two and three sounds that have short vowels; read high-frequency Words

Speaking and Listening Skills:

• Demonstrate understanding of the rules for conversations and discussions

Literary Text Comprehension Skills:

• Reading Strategies: Preview and make predictions about a story; compare and contrast stories; summarize, visualize, and retell stories; classify and categorize objects and information

• Literary Elements: Identify and describe characters and setting in stories; identify the main idea in stories and the details that relate to that main idea

Informational Text Comprehension Skills:

• Reading Strategies: Explain the difference between fiction and nonfiction; distinguish fact and opinion; identify the main idea and give details about a topic; answer questions about a topic

Foundational Literacy Skills:

• Letter/Sound Knowledge: recognize all letter shapes; identify and produce the most common sounds for all consonants, consonant digraphs (-ck, sh, ch, th, wh), short and long vowels, beginning and ending blends

• Phonological Awareness: count syllables in words; identify initial, medial, and final sounds in words; distinguish between long and short vowel sounds in words

• Reading and Spelling: read and spell closed syllable short vowel words, open syllable long vowel words, words with common digraphs at the beginning or end, words with common consonant blends at the beginning or end, words with suffix -s at the end, words with the common pattern "all", words with double final consonants -ff, -ll, -ss, -zz, and high-frequency Words

Speaking and Listening Skills:

• Demonstrate understanding of the rules for conversations and discussions

Language Content:

• Identify and produce synonyms for a given word