Kindergarten

Phonological Awareness

Print Concepts

Phonics and Word Recognition: 

Produce all individual phonemes in words using accurate articulation.

Produce initial and final sounds of words using accurate articulation.

Identify the initial and final sounds (not letters) of a spoken word.

Produce rhyming words and short, simple, rhyming phrases and songs using accurate pronunciation as well as expressive phrasing and intonation.

Identify rhyming words in response to an oral prompt.

Segment one-syllable words into its phonemes

Blend two or three spoken syllables to produce words.

Produce and blend the initial, medial, and final sounds of CVC words using accurate articulation and pronunciation.

Blend spoken sounds to produce words.

Discriminate between initial, medial, and final spoken sounds within a word.

. Produce and blend the initial, medial, and final sounds of grade appropriate words using accurate articulation and pronunciation

Produce new words when initial sound(s), including digraphs, are changed (i.e., word families).

Orally form words by substituting simple onsets (/c/) with given rimes (/at/). 

Demonstrate the command of left to right, top to bottom directionality, and return sweep when "reading" books.

 Recognize that words are represented by a sequence of letters

Demonstrate the one-to-one correlation between a spoken word and a printed word.

Recognize that sentences are made up of separate words and symbols.

Recognize the difference between a letter and a printed word.

Understand that words are separated by spaces in print.

Name all uppercase and lowercase letters of the alphabet with different fonts out of sequence.

Produce letter sounds represented by the single lettered consonants and vowels. 

Decode common CVC words.

Decode a new word when a specific letter is changed, added, or removed.