Kindergarten

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 Kindergarten Reading Skills

1) Letter identification/sounds
2) Concepts of print
3) Sight words
4) Reading comprehension
 Letters/Letter Sounds
Importance of letter recognition and letter sounds:
One of the most important skills for children to develop in the kindergarten year is the recognition that letters and sounds are related. We often call this "the
alphabetic principle," which is the notion that speech sounds can be connected to letters in a predictable way. To grasp the alphabetic principle, children
need to understand that:

● letters represent speech sounds

● letters go together to make words
● changing the letters changes the sounds and the words

Goal: The kindergarten expectation is that students master all letters and sounds by the end of October in order to reach their end of the year goal of reading
independently on a level D. To help students attain this goal, we use the alphabet linking chart to go over both our letters and sounds every day. Let’s
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Resources:
1. Workout to Letter Sounds with Jack Hartmann https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFa0b_IIRac
2. What Letter is it with Jack Hartmann https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwOQvh_mJ4w
3. See it, Say it, Letter Sounds with Jack Hartmann
4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WP1blVh1ZQM
Activities/Ideas:
1) Alphabet Hopscotch
2) Alphabet Go Fish
3) Make letter-sounds and have your children write the letter or letters that match the sounds.
4) Play word games that connect sounds with syllables and words (for example, if the letters "p-e-n" spell pen, how do you spell hen?).
5) Write letters on cards. Hold up the cards one at a time and have your children say the sounds (for example, the /d/ sound for the letter d).
6) Teach your children to match the letters in their names with the sounds in their names.
7) Point out words that begin with the same letter as your children's names (for example, John and jump). Talk about how the beginning sounds of the words are alike.
8) Use alphabet books and guessing games to give your children practice in matching letters and sounds. A good example is the game, "I am thinking of something that starts
with /t/."
9) Write letters on pieces of paper and put them in a paper bag. Let your children reach into the bag and take out letters. Have them say the sounds that match the letters.
10) Take a letter and hide it in your hand. Let your children guess in which hand is the letter. Then show the letter and have your children say the letter name and make the
sound (for example, the letter m matches the /m/ sound as in man).
11) Make letter-sounds and ask your children to draw the matching letters in cornmeal or sand.
12) Take egg cartons and put a paper letter in each slot until you have all the letters of the alphabet in order. Say letter-sounds and ask your children to pick out the letters
that match those sounds.
 Concepts of Print
Goal: All concepts of print

- What are Concepts of Print?

An awareness of how print works. (Reading word-to-word,
line-to-line, page-to-page, understanding of punctuation
marks.)

Resources:
Concepts of print

Activities/Ideas:
Model skills
 Sight words
Goal: Identify 30 out of 100 words
(NOTE: We highly recommend students to learn as
many words on the sight word list.)

Resource:

Sight word list (provided by teacher)

Activities/Ideas:
1) Flash cards
2) Rainbow write
3) Sight word fishing
 Reading Levels A and B
Goal: For this time of the year, the reading expectation is
for students to independently read level A books. By
December, students should be reading level B books
independently.
Reading comprehension
 Reading comprehension
Goal: Must read independently on a level D
Resources:
1) ReadingAtoZ.com
2) Independent Bag of Books

Activities/Ideas:
3) Reading with Your Child | Reading Rockets
4) Great Read Alouds for Kindergarteners | Reading Rockets
5) How to Read an E-Book with Your Child | Reading Rockets
We hope you found this
presentation beneficial.
Thank you for attending!