Pre- reading
With Guidance and support children will:
With Guidance and support children will:
- demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds (phonemes).
- demonstrate understanding of the organization and basic features of printed and written text: books, words, letters, and the alphabet.
- Understand basic concepts of print
- ask and answer questions about unfamiliar words in an informational text read aloud
- Observe and use appropriate ways of interacting in a group (e.g., taking turns in talking, listening to peers, waiting to speak until another person is finished talking, asking questions and waiting for an answer, gaining the floor in appropriate ways).
- Continue a conversation through multiple exchanges
- Ask and answer questions in order to seek help, get information, or clarify something that is not understood
- Dictate words to express a preference or opinion about a topic
- Use a combination of dictating and drawing to explain information about a topic.
- Use a combination of dictating and drawing to tell a real or imagined story.
- begin to write approximations of letters, especially letters in names