Reading+Level+K+Essential+Learnings

= Essential Learnings and Indicators of Success =

== **EL 1:** Students will demonstrate knowledge of basic phonemic awareness skills. ==
 * 1) Student will recognize beginning, middle, and ending sounds of basic CVC words.
 * 2) Students will recognize, hear, and produce word patterns (i.e. rhyming words).

== **EL 2:** Students will demonstrate knowledge of basic phonics. ==
 * 1) Students will recognize and name all letters of the alphabet.
 * 2) Students will identify all letter sounds.
 * 3) Student will apply knowledge of letter sounds to decode single-syllable words (e.g. dog, cat).
 * 4) Students will recognize beginning sight words (30).

== **EL 3:** Students will demonstrate knowledge of basic reading fluency. ==


 * 1) Students will orally read simple text containing familiar word patterns.

== **EL 4:** Students will demonstrate knowledge of basic vocabulary. ==


 * 1) Students will identify and sort common themes within basic categories (e.g. colors, shapes, food).

== **EL 5:** Students will demonstrate knowledge of basic reading comprehension. ==
 * 1) Students will demonstrate knowledge of story elements (i.e. telling a simple story, connect information to real life, identify characters, setting, and key events).
 * 2) Students will understand basic concepts about print (i.e. handle book correctly, directionallity, voice-print match, predictions).