# 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