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Anchorage, Alaska

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Kindergarten Reading

December/January
These are the reading skills your Kindergartener will be learning this month. At Taku we use the ASD reading program developed by Houghton Mifflin publishers.


Target Skills
 November
Phonemic Awareness:
The ability to hear, identify,
and manipulate the individual
sounds in spoken words. It also
includes work with rhymes,
 words, syllables, and onsets (the onset of bag is b ).
and rimes (the rime of bag is ag).
  • Hearing and identifying beginning sounds of words.
  • Blending short a words
  • Learning sounds of letters h, v, c, p, g, f
  • Blending onsets and rhymes.
  • Segmenting onsets and rhymes
Phonics/Decoding:
The using the systematic and predictable relationships between written letters and spoken sounds to read words.
  • Learning to connect the written letters h, v, c, p, g, f with their sounds.
Comprehension:
Understanding what has been read.
  • Skills: Text organization, sequence of events, cause and effect, story structure: beginning, middle, end
  • Strategies: Predict/infer, summarize, phonics/decoding, evaluate
Concepts of Print:
Knowledge how printed language works. Some examples are: where to begin to read, what is a word, letter, punctuation, anad direction to read.
  • Word spacing
  • First/last letter in a written word.
  • Match spoken words to print
  • Distinguish letter, word, sentence
Vocabulary:
Understanding the meaning of words used in speaking and reading. It is a very important part of comprehension.
  • Words that show position, action, describe, rhyme
High Frequency Words:
Words that occur most often in stories and often do not sound out. They must be recognized by sight. (Examples are: the, you, how).
  • a, to, and, go
High Frequency Word Practice:
Using words for instant recall.
  • Matching words.
  • Building sentences.


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