Kindergarten Skills(and Common Core Standards)

Judy A. Kmak, Ed.D.

January, 2012

Do you . . . ?• Sing the alphabet song with your

child?• Read to your child?• Point out things you see in the

pictures?• Ask questions as you read?• Laugh as you read with your child?

These things provide a foundation for literacy

Questions from Parents

• What can I do to help my child?• What should s/he know before

entering kindergarten?• What if my child has no interest in

letters?• What is my child is already

recognizing words?• Is there a progression of skills that

my child should learn?• What’s the most important thing I

can do before my child enters kindergarten?

Illinois Common Core Standards

Reading Standards: Foundational Skills (Kindergartners)

Print Concepts1. Demonstrate understanding of the organization

and basic features of print.a. Follow words from left to right, top to

bottom, and page by page.b. Recognize that spoken words are

represented in written language by specific sequences of letters.c. Understand that words are separated by spaces in print.d. Recognize and name all upper- and lowercase letters of the alphabet.

Alphabet Recognition

Put things in the hands of your children

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Letter Sounds

Rolling for Sounds

Parking Lot Sounds

FREE apps

Non-Fiction ABC Stories

Illinois Common Core Standards

Reading Standards: Foundational Skills (Kindergartners)

Phonological Awareness2. Demonstrate understanding of spoken words,

syllables, and sounds (phonemes).a. Recognize and produce rhyming words.

Illinois Common Core Standards

Reading Standards: Foundational Skills (Kindergartners)

Phonological Awareness1. Demonstrate understanding of spoken words,

syllables, and sounds (phonemes).a. Recognize and produce rhyming words.

FREE apps

Illinois Common Core Standards

Reading Standards: Foundational Skills (Kindergartners)

Phonological Awareness2. Demonstrate understanding of spoken words,

syllables, and sounds (phonemes).a. Recognize and produce rhyming words.b. Count, pronounce, blend, and segment

syllables in spoken words.

Syllable Game

1 2 3 4

AnnBen

AnthonyGrandma

Common Core Standards

Reading Standards: Foundational Skills (Kindergartners)

Phonological Awareness2. Demonstrate understanding of spoken words,

syllables, and sounds (phonemes).a. Recognize and produce rhyming words.b. Count, pronounce, blend, and segment

syllables in spoken words. c. Blend and segment onsets and rimes of single-syllable spoken words.

Onset and Rime

p ig w ig

h op m op

FREE apps

Common Core Standards

Reading Standards: Foundational Skills (Kindergartners)

Phonological Awareness2. Demonstrate understanding of spoken words,

syllables, and sounds (phonemes).a. Recognize and produce rhyming words.b. Count, pronounce, blend, and segment

syllables in spoken words. c. Blend and segment onsets and rimes of single-syllable spoken words.d. Isolate and pronounce the initial, medial vowel,

and final sounds (phonemes) in three-phoneme (consonant-vowel-consonant, or CVC) words.

From the Florida Center for Reading Research

Common Core Standards

Reading Standards: Foundational Skills (Kindergartners)

Phonological Awareness2. Demonstrate understanding of spoken words,

syllables, and sounds (phonemes).a. Recognize and produce rhyming words.b. Count, pronounce, blend, and segment

syllables in spoken words. c. Blend and segment onsets and rimes of single-syllable spoken words.d. Isolate and pronounce the initial, medial vowel,

and final sounds (phonemes) in three-phoneme (consonant-vowel-consonant, or CVC) words.e. Add or substitute individual sounds (phonemes) in simple, one-syllable words to make new words.

Phonemes in One-Syllable Words

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Common Core Standards

Reading Standards: Foundational Skills (Kindergartners)Phonics and Word Recognition3. Know and apply grade-level phonics and word

analysis skills in decoding words.a. Demonstrate basic knowledge and one-to-one

letter sound correspondences by producing the primary or many of the most frequent sound for each consonant.

Websites

• ABC Fast Phonicshttp://www.abcfastphonics.com

Websites

• Starfallhttp://www.starfall.com/

Common Core Standards

Reading Standards: Foundational Skills (Kindergartners)Phonics and Word Recognition3. Know and apply grade-level phonics and word

analysis skills in decoding words.a. Demonstrate basic knowledge and one-to-one

letter sound correspondences by producing the primary or many of the most frequent sound for each consonant.b. Associate the long and short sounds with common spellings (graphemes) for the five major vowels.

• ABC Fast Phonicshttp://www.abcfastphonics.com

Common Core Standards

Reading Standards: Foundational Skills (Kindergartners)Phonics and Word Recognition3. Know and apply grade-level phonics and word

analysis skills in decoding words.a. Demonstrate basic knowledge and one-to-one

letter sound correspondences by producing the primary or many of the most frequent sound for each consonant.b. Associate the long and short sounds with common spellings (graphemes) for the five major vowels.c. Read common high-frequency words by sight (e.g. the, of, to, you, she, my, is, are, do, does).

Free Books

Common Core Standards

Reading Standards: Foundational Skills (Kindergartners)Phonics and Word Recognition3. Know and apply grade-level phonics and word

analysis skills in decoding words.a. Demonstrate basic knowledge and one-to-one

letter sound correspondences by producing the primary or many of the most frequent sound for each consonant.b. Associate the long and short sounds with common spellings (graphemes) for the five major vowels.c. Read common high-frequency words by sight (e.g. the, of, to, you, she, my, is, are, do, does).

d. Distinguish between similarly spelled words by identifying the sounds of the letters that differ.

cat canpin panbug rug

Websites

• Game Goo – Learning that Stickshttp://www.earobics.com/gamegoo/

gooey.html

Common Core Standards

Reading Standards: Foundational Skills (Kindergartners)Fluency4. Read emergent-reader texts with purpose and

understanding.

Four reading strategies that work with any text:1.

Predicting

3. Clarifying

2. Questioning

4. Summarizing

Make every moment count

Predicting

Questioning

Clarifying

Summarizing

Common Core Standards

Bottom Line:

Read

Read

Read

Read

Questions?