Kindergarten Reading

Kindergarten Reading Lesson Plans: Kindergarten Reading Skills

Suggested Teaching Strategies for Kindergarten Reading Skills

1. Retells a familiar story using own words
2. Moves hand in space from left to right
3. Understands left to right progression on the page; top to bottom directions
4. Holds a book in correct way
5. Understands return sweep; identifies direction which print is read
6. Recognizes print in the environment
7. Reads some environmental print (signs/labels)
8. Reproduces a pattern using concrete objects
9. Listens attentively to a story
10. Engages in reading-like activities
11. Joins in reading of familiar books
12. Begins to read predictable/pattern book
13. Dictates a story
14. Identifies words in an experience story
15. Understands that print conveys meaning
16. Retells a personal story
17. Responds to questions in conversation using words and phrases in the primary language
18. Participates in conversation while interacting with peers
19. Can sequence in proper order
20. Recalls sequence of events
21. Uses positional words
22. Speaks in sentences
23. Expresses wants, needs, and thoughts in primary language
24. Points to and says letters in the child’s name
25. Names printed letters
26. Can match letters
27. Responds to cue words that begin with the same sound
28. Responds to cue words that end with the same sound
29. Responds to cue words that rhyme
30. Identifies the relationship between letters and sounds
31. Distinguishes sound units/syllables (clapping/stomping/finger tapping)
32. Produces rhyming words
33. Recognizes the same phoneme orally
34. Isolates the beginning sound in a word orally
35. Blends and segments sounds in two phoneme words (e.g., at—a-t, me—m-e)
36. Interprets a picture orally
37. Produces an imagined story to accompany pictures
38. Predicts an outcome
39. Develops an awareness of cause and effect
40. Makes transfer of knowledge through demonstrated application
41. Begins to differentiate reality from fantasy
42. Understands position words (e.g., in, on, above, below, under, over, beside, front, back, etc.)
43. Reproduces a visual pattern
44. Approximates writing using scribble/drawing to communicate an idea
45. Begins to use letters to communicate ideas
46. Traces shapes
47. Draws an enclosed space that is recognizable (e.g., circle, box, etc.)
48. Legibly writes first name from memory
49. Follows simple directions
50. Listens to an age-appropriate story
51. Reads and recognizes proper names of classmates
52. Reads labeled objects in room
53. Reads and recognizes words representing familiar objects