Language Arts
- Identifies front, back, title, and author of a book.
- Demonstrates top to bottom, left to right progression
- Distinguishes letters from words and words from sentences
- Identifies all uppercase and lowercase letters
- Demonstrates knowledge of beginning sounds by printing correct letter symbols with corresponding pictures
- Orally tells what sound is heard at the beginning and ending of words
- Blends CVC sounds aloud to make a word
- Rhymes
- Count the number of sounds in a syllable and the number of syllables in a word
- Reads one syllable and common words by sight such as "the", "I", "is"
- Makes predictions
- Demonstrates comprehension of stories by orally retelling or acting out
- Identifies characters, setting, and main idea of a story
- Prints name correctly "on line"
- Prints alphabet letters legibly without a model
- Uses writing (letters, pictures, and words) to express own meaning
- Writes from left to right and from top to bottom
- Writes some simple CVC words spelled correctly and longer words phonetically (as they sound)
- Orally state the names of the days of the week and months of the year
- Identifies the eight basic colors and reads the corresponding color words
- Understands and follows one and two step spoken directions