Everyday Literacy: Reading and Writing, Grade K

The perfect supplement to your core early reading program! Everyday Literacy: Reading and Writing, Grade K helps your early learners develop beginning reading and writing skills using fun, focused daily lessons. The 20 weekly units in grade K cover: Concepts of Print: — Identify uppercase and lowercase letters of the alphabet; — Locate a word on a printed page; — Follow words form top to bottom and right to left; — Track print by pointing to written words when text is read aloud by self; — Understand that spoken words are represented in writing by specific sequence of letters; Phonemic Awareness: — Recognize a phoneme in a spoken word; — Segment the initial phoneme of a spoken word; — Segment the final phoneme of a spoken word; — Indentify the initial or final phoneme of a spoken word; — Isolate and identify the initial and final phoneme of a spoken word; — Identify the position of an isolated phoneme in a spoken word; Phonics/Word Analysis: — Learn and apply letter-sound correspondences; — Produce the sound a consonant letter makes in isolation; — Recognize that individual letters have associated sounds; — Read familiar CVC words and common sight words; Literary Response and Analysis: — Participate in a group response to a literary selection, identifying the characters, setting, and sequence of events; — Make predictions about content using pictures, background knowledge, and text features; Comprehension: — Answer questions about text read aloud; — Respond to who, what, where, why, how, questions about text read aloud; — Make connections using prior knowledge and real-life experiences; — Demonstrate comprehension of text read aloud by self or others; Writing: — Print uppercase and lowercase letters; — Use spacing between letters and words when writing on a line; — Write letters that match sounds in words;