Working toward the goals of reading with comprehension, writing with skill, and communicating effectively and responsibly, your kindergartner will learn to:

Reading:

• Experience being read to.
• spend time with books developing book awareness (reading left to right).
• Recognize letters and their sounds.
• Identify beginning sounds.
• Read simple words.
• Recognize story parts (beginning, middle, end).
• Sequence simple stories (first, next, then, last).
• Re-tell simple stories.
• Understand word meanings.
• Follow directions.

Reading Quick Check: Does your child:

• Understand that pictures and words have meaning?
• Know and use letters and sounds to guess words?
• Recognize some words in different contexts?
• Understand the way we read affects the meaning?
• Reread a range of books and explore new ones?

Writing:

• Print numbers, capital and lower-case letters as taught at school.
• Use phonics skills to spell.
• Use words and/or pictures to explain ideas.
• Use ideas, voice and conventions in writing attempts.
• Use technology as appropriate.

Communication:

• Use complete sentences to share ideas orally (Show & Tell).
• Listen and communicate effectively in groups.