Literacy Learning

Here are a few things kinds in kindergarten are expected to accomplish.

- knows the parts of a book and their functions
- begin to track print when listening to a familiar text being read or when rereading own writing
- "reads" familiar texts emergently, i.e., not necessarily verbatim from the print alone
- recognizes and can name all uppercase and lowercase letters
- understands that the sequence of letters in a written word represents the sequence of sounds (phonemes) in a spoken word (alphabetic principle)
- learns many, though not all, one-to-one letter sound correspondences
- recognizes some words by sight, including a few very common ones ("the," "I," "my," "you," "is," "are")
- uses new vocabulary and grammatical constructions in own speech
- makes appropriate switches from oral to written language styles
- notices when simple sentences fail to make sense
- connects information and events to life and life experiences to text
- retells, reenacts, or dramatizes stories or parts of stories


Well, I could go on and on but I will leave it there for today and take the rest of my preparation period to prepare for the launch of our 3D shapes unit.

Enjoy the sunny day,
Miss Mynes