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Common Core Top Pick for Reading - Foundational Skills

• Print Concepts
• Phonological Awareness
• Phonics and Word Recognition

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Everyday Literacy: Reading and Writing, Grade K helps your early learners develop beginning reading and writing skills using fun, focused daily lessons.

The 20 weekly units in grade K cover:

Concepts of Print

• Identify uppercase and lowercase letters of the alphabet
• Locate a word on a printed page
• Follow words form top to bottom and right to left
• Track print by pointing to written words when text is read aloud by self
• Understand that spoken words are represented in writing by specific sequence of letters

Phonemic Awareness

• Recognize a phoneme in a spoken word
• Segment the initial phoneme of a spoken word
• Segment the final phoneme of a spoken word
• Indentify the initial or final phoneme of a spoken word
• Isolate and identify the initial and final phoneme of a spoken word
• Identify the position of an isolated phoneme in a spoken word

Phonics/Word Analysis

• Learn and apply letter-sound correspondences
• Produce the sound a consonant letter makes in isolation
• Recognize that individual letters have associated sounds
• Read familiar CVC words and common sight words

Literary Response and Analysis

• Participate in a group response to a literary selection, identifying the characters, setting, and sequence of events
• Make predictions about content using pictures, background knowledge,
  and text features

Comprehension

• Answer questions about text read aloud

• Respond to who, what, where, why, how, questions about text read aloud
• Make connections using prior knowledge and real-life experiences
• Demonstrate comprehension of text read aloud by self or others

Writing

• Print uppercase and lowercase letters
• Use spacing between letters and words when writing on a line
• Write letters that match sounds in words