reading development for 4-8 year olds by skill

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This is a checklist of skills that 4-8 year old children need in the area of reading. It is organized by skill. Check out my activities that go along with this document in my Seussy Summer posts at iHeartSpeech.com

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  • Reading Development for 4-8 Year Olds

    Skill Focus - Listening to Stories and Answering Questions4-5: Pay attention to a short story and answer simple questions about them5-6: Listen to and understand age-appropriate stories read aloud6-7: Remember information; Understand what is read7-8: Correctly answer questions about a grade-level story

    Skill Focus - Retell a Story4-5:Tell stories that stick to topic5-6:Retell a story or talk about an event6-7:Tell and retell stories and events in a logical order7-8:Explain key elements of a story (e.g., main idea, main characters, plot); Read,

    paraphrase/retell a story in a sequence

    Skill Focus - Letter-Sound Correspondence4-5:Name some letters and numbers5-6:Understand that letters represent speech sounds and match sounds to letters; Identify

    upper- and lowercase letters6-7:Identify letters, words, and sentences, Sound out words when reading7-8:Have fully mastered phonics/sound awareness; Associate speech sounds, syllables, words, and

    phrases with their written forms

    Skill Focus - Sight Words4-5:Recognize common environmental signs5-6:Recognize some words by sight6-7:Have a sight vocabulary of 100 common words7-8:Recognize many words by sight

    Created by Lauren Barnett, MA, CCC-SLP iHeartSpeech.com

  • Reading Development for 4-8 Year Olds

    Skill Focus - Reading (pre-reading)4-5: sit and listen to books5-6:Know how a book works (e.g., read from left to right and top to bottom in English)6-7:Blend separate sounds to form words, Match spoken words with print, Read grade-level

    material fluently7-8: Read grade-level stories, poetry, or dramatic text silently and aloud with fluency; Read

    spontaneously

    Skill Focus - Writing4-5:Write some letters, grasp a pencil correctly, pre-writing lines5-6: Print own first and last name; Draw a picture that tells a story and label and write about

    the picture; Write upper- and lowercase letters6-7:Express ideas through writing; Spell frequently used words correctly; Begin each sentence

    with capital letters and use ending punctuation; Write a variety of stories, journal entries, or letters/notes

    7-8:Write legibly; Use a variety of sentence types in writing essays, poetry, or short stories (fiction and nonfiction); Use basic punctuation and capitalization appropriately

    Skill Focus - Following Directions4-5:Follow basic 2 part directions (this and that)5-6:Follow 1-2 simple directions in a sequence6-7:Follow 2-3 step directions in a sequence7-8:Follow 3-4 oral directions in a sequence

    Skill Focus - Language Development4-5:Work on forming and explaining categories (fruits, furniture, shapes).Sort items into

    categories. 5-6:Identify words that rhyme (e.g., cat and hat)6-7:Give directions7-8:Understand direction words (location, space & time words)

    Created by Lauren Barnett, MA, CCC-SLP iHeartSpeech.com