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Conventional Grade Level Focus
Kindergarten
Reading foundations
- Letter Identification
- Lowercase and uppercase letters
- Word recognition
- Consonants and vowels
- Beginning and ending sounds
- Letter-sound associations
- Consonant blends and digraphs
- Short vowel sounds
- Long vowel sounds
- Sight words
Reading strategies
- Text features
- Reality vs fiction
- Main idea
- Inference and analysis
- Setting and Character
- Sequence
- Point of view
- Read-along literary texts
- Read-alone literary texts
- Read-along informational texts
- Read-alone informational texts
Vocabulary
- Color and number words
- Adjectives and verbs
- Location words
- Question words
- Synonyms and antonyms
- Categories
- Multiple meaning words
Grammar and mechanics