Kindergarten Skills (and Common Core Standards) Judy A. Kmak, Ed.D. January, 2012

Do you... ? Sing the alphabet song with your child? Read to your child? Point out things you see in the pictures? Ask questions as you read? Laugh as you read with your child?

These things provide a foundation for literacy

Questions from Parents What can I do to help my child? What should s/he know before entering kindergarten? What if my child has no interest in letters? What is my child is already recognizing words? Is there a progression of skills that my child should learn? What’s the most important thing I can do before my child enters kindergarten?

Illinois Common Core Standards Reading Standards: Foundational Skills (Kindergartners) Print Concepts 1.Demonstrate understanding of the organization and basic features of print. a.Follow words from left to right, top to bottom, and page by page. b. Recognize that spoken words are represented in written language by specific sequences of letters. c. Understand that words are separated by spaces in print. d. Recognize and name all upper- and lowercase letters of the alphabet.

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Illinois Common Core Standards Reading Standards: Foundational Skills (Kindergartners) Phonological Awareness 2.Demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds (phonemes). a. Recognize and produce rhyming words.

Illinois Common Core Standards Reading Standards: Foundational Skills (Kindergartners) Phonological Awareness 1.Demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds (phonemes). a. Recognize and produce rhyming words.

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Illinois Common Core Standards Reading Standards: Foundational Skills (Kindergartners) Phonological Awareness 2.Demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds (phonemes). a. Recognize and produce rhyming words. b. Count, pronounce, blend, and segment syllables in spoken words.

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Common Core Standards Reading Standards: Foundational Skills (Kindergartners) Phonological Awareness 2.Demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds (phonemes). a. Recognize and produce rhyming words. b. Count, pronounce, blend, and segment syllables in spoken words. c. Blend and segment onsets and rimes of single- syllable spoken words.

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Common Core Standards Reading Standards: Foundational Skills (Kindergartners) Phonological Awareness 2.Demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds (phonemes). a. Recognize and produce rhyming words. b. Count, pronounce, blend, and segment syllables in spoken words. c. Blend and segment onsets and rimes of single- syllable spoken words. d. Isolate and pronounce the initial, medial vowel, and final sounds (phonemes) in three-phoneme (consonant- vowel-consonant, or CVC) words.

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Common Core Standards Reading Standards: Foundational Skills (Kindergartners) Phonological Awareness 2.Demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds (phonemes). a. Recognize and produce rhyming words. b. Count, pronounce, blend, and segment syllables in spoken words. c. Blend and segment onsets and rimes of single- syllable spoken words. d. Isolate and pronounce the initial, medial vowel, and final sounds (phonemes) in three-phoneme (consonant- vowel-consonant, or CVC) words. e. Add or substitute individual sounds (phonemes) in simple, one-syllable words to make new words.

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Common Core Standards Reading Standards: Foundational Skills (Kindergartners) Phonics and Word Recognition 3.Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words. a.Demonstrate basic knowledge and one-to-one letter sound correspondences by producing the primary or many of the most frequent sound for each consonant.

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Common Core Standards Reading Standards: Foundational Skills (Kindergartners) Phonics and Word Recognition 3.Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words. a.Demonstrate basic knowledge and one-to-one letter sound correspondences by producing the primary or many of the most frequent sound for each consonant. b.Associate the long and short sounds with common spellings (graphemes) for the five major vowels.

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Common Core Standards Reading Standards: Foundational Skills (Kindergartners) Phonics and Word Recognition 3.Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words. a.Demonstrate basic knowledge and one-to-one letter sound correspondences by producing the primary or many of the most frequent sound for each consonant. b.Associate the long and short sounds with common spellings (graphemes) for the five major vowels. c.Read common high-frequency words by sight (e.g. the, of, to, you, she, my, is, are, do, does).

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Common Core Standards Reading Standards: Foundational Skills (Kindergartners) Phonics and Word Recognition 3.Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words. a.Demonstrate basic knowledge and one-to-one letter sound correspondences by producing the primary or many of the most frequent sound for each consonant. b.Associate the long and short sounds with common spellings (graphemes) for the five major vowels. c.Read common high-frequency words by sight (e.g. the, of, to, you, she, my, is, are, do, does). d. Distinguish between similarly spelled words by identifying the sounds of the letters that differ.

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Common Core Standards Reading Standards: Foundational Skills (Kindergartners) Fluency 4.Read emergent-reader texts with purpose and understanding. Four reading strategies that work with any text: 1. Predicting 3. Clarifyin g 2. Questionin g 4. Summarizing

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Predicting

Question ing

Clarifyin g

Summarizing

Common Core Standards Bottom Line: Read

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