Summary of Skills
Age 5-7 - Concept 6: Reading
Unit 1: Semester 1
Reading
Language Arts
- Add or substitute individual sounds in simple, one-syllable words to make new words
- Associate the long and short sounds with the common spellings for the five major vowels
- Decode regularly spelled one-syllable words
- Demonstrate basic knowledge of one-to-one letter-sound correspondences by producing the primary sound or many of the most frequent sounds for each consonant
- Distinguish between similarly spelled words by identifying the sounds of the letters that differ
- Follow words from left to right, top to bottom, and page by page
- Form regular plural nouns orally by adding s or es
- Isolate and pronounce the initial, medial vowel, and final sounds in three letter (consonant-vowel-consonant, or CVC) words
- Know the spelling-sound correspondences for common consonant digraphs
- Orally produce single-syllable words by blending sounds, including consonant blends
- Read common high-frequency words by sight
- Recognize and name all upper- and lowercase letters of the alphabet
- Recognize and name all uppercase and lowercase letters of the alphabet
- Recognize and produce rhyming words
- Recognize that spoken words are represented in written language by specific sequences of letters
- Recognize the distinguishing features of a sentence
- Segment spoken single-syllable words into their complete sequence of individual sounds
- Understand that words are separated by spaces in print
Unit 2: Semester 2
Reading
Language Arts
- Add or substitute individual sounds in simple, one-syllable words to make new words
- Decode regularly spelled one-syllable words
- Demonstrate basic knowledge of one-to-one letter-sound correspondences by producing the primary sound or many of the most frequent sounds for each consonant
- Demonstrate understanding of the organization and basic features of print
- Distinguish between similarly spelled words by identifying the sounds of the letters that differ
- Distinguish long from short vowel sounds in spoken single-syllable words.
- Follow words from left to right, top to bottom, and page by page
- Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words
- Know final -e and common vowel team conventions for representing long vowel sounds
- Know the spelling-sound correspondences for common consonant digraphs
- Orally produce single-syllable words by blending sounds, including consonant blends
- Read common high-frequency words by sight
- Read grade-level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings
- Read grade-level text with purpose and understanding
- Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension
- Recognize and produce rhyming words
- Recognize and read grade-appropriate irregularly spelled words
- Recognize the distinguishing features of a sentence
- Segment spoken single-syllable words into their complete sequence of individual sounds
- Use context to confirm or self-correct word recognition and understanding, rereading as necessary