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Conventional Grade Level Focus

Kindergarten 

Reading foundations

  1. Letter Identification
  2. Lowercase and uppercase letters
  3. Word recognition
  4. Consonants and vowels
  5. Beginning and ending sounds
  6. Letter-sound associations
  7. Consonant blends and digraphs
  8. Short vowel sounds
  9. Long vowel sounds
  10. Sight words

Reading strategies

  1. Text features
  2. Reality vs fiction
  3. Main idea
  4. Inference and analysis
  5. Setting and Character
  6. Sequence
  7. Point of view
  8. Read-along literary texts
  9. Read-alone literary texts
  10. Read-along informational texts
  11. Read-alone informational texts

Vocabulary

  1. Color and number words
  2. Adjectives and verbs
  3. Location words
  4. Question words
  5. Synonyms and antonyms
  6. Categories
  7. Multiple meaning words

Grammar and mechanics

  1. Sentences
  2. Capitalization
  3. Nouns
  4. Verbs

First Grade

Reading foundations

  1. Consonants and vowels
  2. Syllables (2-syllable)
  3. Rhyming
  4. Phoneme blending, segmenting and substitution
  5. Consonant sounds and letters
  6. Consonant blends and digraphs
  7. Short vowels
  8. Long vowels
  9. Silent e
  10. Vowel teams
  11. Sight words

Reading strategies

  1. Reality vs fiction
  2. Main idea
  3. Sequence
  4. Point of view
  5. Inference and analysis
  6. Setting and character
  7. Text features
  8. Read-along literary texts
  9. Read-alone literary texts
  10. Read-along informational texts
  11. Read-alone informational texts

Vocabulary

  1. Nouns and adjectives
  2. Categories
  3. Synonyms and antonyms
  4. Multiple meaning words
  5. Shades of meaning
  6. Prefixes and suffixes
  7. Context clues
  8. Reference skills (ABC order)

Grammar and mechanics

  1. Sentences
  2. Nouns
  3. Pronouns
  4. Verbs
  5. Subject verb agreement
  6. Verb tense
  7. Articles
  8. Adjectives
  9. Prepositions
  10. Linking words
  11. Contractions
  12. Capitalization

Second grade

Reading foundations

  1. Syllables (2-syllable)
  2. Rhyming
  3. Consonant blends and digraphs
  4. Short vowels
  5. Long vowels (including silent e)
  6. Vowel teams
  7. Soft g and c
  8. The letter group "le"
  9. Sight words

Reading strategies

  1. Sequence
  2. Theme
  3. Topic and purpose
  4. Cause and effect
  5. Inference and analysis
  6. Setting and character
  7. Compare and contrast
  8. Text features
  9. Read-along literary texts
  10. Read-alone literary texts
  11. Read-along informational texts
  12. Read-alone informational texts

Writing strategies

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