Pre-K Kindergarten
Welcome to the NCPS parent page for Pre-Kindergarten and Kindergarten! Within this page, you will find a variety of reading resources that were carefully gathered by the NCPS reading team. We hope you will explore these reading resources and use them with your child(ren)!
Open the door to READING by TALKING!
For games to help with talking and language for beginning reading,
we use Randall Klein's Early Reading Mastery.
You can too! Go to:
Downloads
Klein Method PDF Game Files
#111 Beginning Sound Cards
#112 Beginning Sounds - Same or Different?
BEGINNING SOUND WORK is BEGINNING READING!
What is the first sound you hear in ball? Answer: /b/ (the sound, not the letter name bee)
What is the first sound you hear in cat? Answer: /k/ (the sound, not the letter name see)
[We don't say cat as see ay tee.]
We Align with the Science of Reading
Nelson County Public Schools teaches reading and spelling using methods which align with the Science of Reading, such as Randall Klein's Early Reading Mastery.
Our Kindergarten classroom teachers use IMSE (Institute for Multi-Sensory Education).
Our intervention teachers use S.P.I.R.E. (Specialized Program Individualizing Reading Excellence).
Both of these are explicit, systematic, and multi-sensory methods which are based on the Structured Literacy Orton-Gillingham Approach.
Parent Guides for Pre-K / Kindergarten Reading Milestones
https://www.readingrockets.org/reading-101-guide-parents/prek
https://www.readingrockets.org/reading-101-guide-parents/kindergarten
View a previous Pre-K & Kindergarten virtual family/parent night.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-ei3GMHWVBAJeIwR_S8uJq1_D4EK1lzn/view?ts=5fdcedcf
Print Awareness Pointers
Before a child learns how to read, he or she needs to know how print works. This skill is called Print Awareness. Children start developing print awareness as early as infancy and continue to develop this set of skills throughout early childhood. Children who have print awareness can hold a book correctly and turn pages in the right direction. Additionally, they understand that books are read from front to back and sentences are read from left to right. To help develop these skills, grown-ups can use their finger to track words, point to the parts of the book such as the front and back cover, the title and author. Grown-ups can also let their child hold the book, turn the pages and point to the words as you read to them. Children’s performance on print awareness tasks is a reliable predictor of their future reading success. Have fun reading with your child and make it a memorable experience!
Below you will find the link to some simple tips on developing these skills at home.
Helpful at Home Tips for Developing Print Awareness
https://www.readingrockets.org/teaching/reading-basics/printawareness
Reading Activities for Your Child
The Florida Center for Reading Research (FCRR) investigates all aspects of reading and reading-related skills. Under student center activities, there is a variety of printable reading games that encourage children to practice reading skills for each grade level.