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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