Kindergarten Reading Expectations

1.  The student understands and uses different skills and strategies to read.

1.1 Uses word recognition skills and strategies to read and comprehend text.

1.1.1 Apply phonetic principles to read including sounding out, using initial letters, and using common letter patterns to make sense of whole words.

Understand and apply concepts of print.

• Use directionality when listening to or following text (e.g., follow words from left to right and top to bottom on a page and turn pages appropriately).
• Identify front cover, back cover and title of book in fiction and nonfiction text.
• Recognize that print represents spoken language that conveys meaning (e.g., environmental print and own name).
• Identify a word and its beginning and ending letters.

Understand and apply phonemic awareness (is phonemically aware).

• Hear gross differences between words.
• Hear rhyme and identify rhyming words in response to an oral prompt.
• Orally segment words into syllables.
• Hear initial and final consonant sounds.
• Segment and blend two and three phoneme words.
• Auditorally recognize when two words begin with the same sound.
• Orally manipulate and segment words by onset and rime.

Apply understanding of oral language to develop reading skills.

• Listen to stories read aloud and participate orally in discussions/interactions (e.g., contribute descriptions, explanations, and details).

Apply understanding of phonics.

• Identify letters of the alphabet.
• Identify common consonant and short vowel sounds with automaticity.

1.2 Use vocabulary (word meaning) strategies to comprehend text.

1.2.2 Use a variety of reading strategies to comprehend words and ideas, including self-correcting, re-reading, reading on, and slowing down.

Understand how pictures and letters provide clues to word meanings.

• Use pictures and initial consonants to gain meaning.

1.2.3 Use dictionaries, glossaries, and other sources to understand and confirm word meanings.

Understand how resources are used to learn word meanings.

• Locate resources with teacher guidance.

1.3 Build vocabulary through wide reading.

1.3.1 Use pictures, graphics, word meaning, and context clues to comprehend text.

Understand how to predict and confirm word meaning.

• Use oral language structure, letters, and pictures to predict and confirm word meaning (with teacher guidance).
• Use context in read alouds to predict meaning of new words.

1.3.2 Build reading vocabulary across content areas.

Understand and apply new vocabulary.

• Increase oral vocabulary through listening to read alouds of informational and literary text.

1.4 Apply word recognition skills and strategies to read fluently.

1.4.1 Read grade level text fluently.

Know high frequency words.

• Read selected high frequency words by sight.