KG1 Literacy

Demonstrates phonological awareness, phonics skills, and word recognition:

• Notices and discriminates rhyme

• Notices and discriminates alliteration

• Notices and discriminates discrete units of sound

• Applies phonics rules and knowledge of word structure to decode text

Demonstrates knowledge of the alphabet

• Identifies and names letters

• Identifies letter-sound correspondences

Demonstrates knowledge of print and its uses

• Uses and appreciates books and other texts

• Uses print concepts

Comprehends and responds to books and other texts

• Interacts during reading experiences, book conversations, and text reflections

• Uses emergent reading skills

• Retells stories and recounts details from informational texts

• Uses context clues to read and comprehend texts

• Reads fluently

Demonstrates writing skills

• Writes name

• Writes to convey meaning

• Writes using conventions

Demonstrates positive approaches to learning

• Attends and engages

• Persists

• Solves problems

• Shows curiosity and motivation

• Shows flexibility and inventiveness in thinking

Remembers and connects experiences

• Recognizes and recalls

• Makes connections

Uses classification skills

Uses symbols and images to represent something not present

• Thinks symbolically

• Engages in socio-dramatic play