Kindergarten Skills
(and Common Core
Standards)
Judy A. Kmak,
Ed.D.
January, 2012
Do you . . . ?
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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
Illinois Common Core
Standards
Reading Standards: Foundational Skills (Kindergartners)
Print Concepts
1. Demonstrate understanding of the organization and
basic features of print.
a. Follow words from left to right, top to bottom, and
by page.
b. page
Recognize
that spoken words are
represented in written language by specific
letters.
c. sequences
Understandofthat
words are separated by spaces
print.
d. inRecognize
and name all upper- and lowercase
letters of the alphabet.
Alphabet Recognition
A
a
Put things in the
hands of your
children
Letter Sounds
Rolling for
Sounds
Parking Lot
Sounds
FREE apps
Non-Fiction ABC Stories
Illinois Common Core
Standards
Reading Standards: Foundational Skills (Kindergartners)
Phonological Awareness
2. 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 Awareness
1. 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 Awareness
2. 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
Ann
Ben
2
3
Grand
ma
Antho
ny
4
Common Core Standards
Reading Standards: Foundational Skills (Kindergartners)
Phonological Awareness
2. Demonstrate understanding of spoken words,
syllables, and sounds (phonemes).
a. Recognize and produce rhyming words.
b. Count, pronounce, blend, and segment syllables
in spoken
c. Blend
and words.
segment onsets and rimes of singlesyllable spoken words.
Onset and Rime
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w
h op m
op
FREE apps
Common Core Standards
Reading Standards: Foundational Skills (Kindergartners)
Phonological Awareness
2. Demonstrate understanding of spoken words,
syllables, and sounds (phonemes).
a. Recognize and produce rhyming words.
b. Count, pronounce, blend, and segment syllables
in spoken
c. Blend
and words.
segment onsets and rimes of singlesyllableand
spoken
words.the initial, medial vowel, and
d. Isolate
pronounce
final sounds (phonemes) in three-phoneme (consonantvowel-consonant, or CVC) words.
From the Florida Center for Reading Research
Common Core Standards
Reading Standards: Foundational Skills (Kindergartners)
Phonological Awareness
2. Demonstrate understanding of spoken words,
syllables, and sounds (phonemes).
a. Recognize and produce rhyming words.
b. Count, pronounce, blend, and segment syllables
in spoken
c. Blend
and words.
segment onsets and rimes of singlesyllableand
spoken
words.the initial, medial vowel, and
d. Isolate
pronounce
final sounds (phonemes) in three-phoneme (consonantvowel-consonant,
or individual
CVC) words.
e. Add or substitute
sounds (phonemes) in
simple, one-syllable words to make new words.
Phonemes in One-Syllable
Words
at
cat
bat
rat
fat
sat
in
pin
win
tin
fin
bin
an
can
ran
fan
man
Dan
Common Core Standards
Reading Standards: Foundational Skills (Kindergartners)
Phonics and Word Recognition
3. 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 Phonics
http://www.abcfastphonics.com
Websites
• Starfall
http://www.starfall.com/
Common Core Standards
Reading Standards: Foundational Skills (Kindergartners)
Phonics and Word Recognition
3. 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 Phonics
http://www.abcfastphonics.com
Common Core Standards
Reading Standards: Foundational Skills (Kindergartners)
Phonics and Word Recognition
3. 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 Recognition
3. 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 can
pin pan
bug rug
Websites
• Game Goo – Learning that Sticks
http://www.earobics.com/gamegoo/gooey.html
Common Core Standards
Reading Standards: Foundational Skills (Kindergartners)
Fluency
4. Read emergent-reader texts with purpose and
understanding.
Four reading strategies that work with any
text:
1. Predicting
2.
Questionin
g
3.
4. Summarizing
Clarifyin
g
Make every moment count
Predicting
Question
ing
Clarifyin
g
Summarizing
Common Core Standards
Bottom Line:
Read
Read
Read
Read
Questions?