Reading

• Identify and sound out small and capital letters Aa-Zz.
• Read cvc and consonant blends.
• Identify and read sight words.
• Read from left to right
• Identify the title of a story
• Understand the difference between author and illustrator
• Read and understand short and simple sentences

Writing

• Write in upper and lower case Aa-Zz letters.
• Follow lines when writing letters.
• Write complete name.
• Spell cvc and consonant blends.
• Forms a sentence orally before writing.
• End sentences with a punctuation mark
• Puts space in-between words when writing sentences

Listening & Speaking

• Identify beginning, middle, and ending sounds
• Identify rhyming words
• Ask and answer questions about a text
• Use descriptive words in expressing ideas and feelings clearly
• Retell and arrange events of a story in chronological order
• Identify major characters, settings, and events in a story
• Engage in and retain conversations with peers
• Predict an outcome of a story

Grammar

• Identify, and describe nouns, verbs, adjectives, prepositions and pronouns
• Identify common and proper nouns
• Start writing a sentence with a capital letter
• Ends a sentence with a punctuation mark
• Demonstrate understanding of frequently occurring verbs and adjectives by relating them to their opposites.