Competencies Demonstrated:

Alphabet Knowledge

Print Awareness

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Phonological Awareness

Comprehension

ALPHABET KNOWLEDGE

Goal P-Lit 1. -Child identifies letters of the alphabet and produces the correct sound associated with letters

Competency

Demonstrated

Knows all uppercase letters

Can you say this letter's name: Q?

Knows all lowercase letters

Can you say this letters name: q?

Knows all basic a-z letter sounds

What sound does this letter make: s

PRINT AWARENESS

Child demonstrates an understanding of how print is used (functions of print) and the rules that govern how print works (conventions of print)

Competency

Demonstrated

Child can look at letters and words (in book, on paper, on a screen) and determine what kind of document they are looking at

Is this a list, a note, or a story?

Understand that written words are made up of individual letters

Can you tap each letter in the word

Can identify book parts and features, such as front, back, title, and author

Can you turn to the first page of the story?

PHONOLOGICAL AWARENESS

Child demonstrates awareness that spoken language is composed of smaller segments of sounds

Target Skill

Competency Demonstrated

Can produce a rhyming word

What rhymes with 'mat'?

Can identify the beginning sound in a word

What's the first sound in 'dog'?

Can provide a word with the same first sound.

Dog starts with the /d/-sound. What else starts with the /d/-sound?

COMPREHENSION

Child asks and answers questions about a text that was read aloud

Target Skill

Competency Demonstrated

Answers questions about information that is explicitly stated in the story

What color where Wisker's eyes?

Provides a summary of a story, highlighting a number of key ideas and how they relate


Can you retell the story?

Answers questions about information that is not explicitly stated in the story, such as making inferences, predictions, or describing how a character might feel

How did Whiskers feel when he found the box?

K-Ready can help you build your child's language and literacy skills.

Below are links to the Practice Zone where you can work one each of the Language and Literacy competency groups.

Practice Print Awareness

Practice Phonological Awareness

Practice Comprehension