Reading
- Initiates own reading
- Beginning to read beyond text and make inferences
- Shares favorite reading materials
- Explores a variety of books and text features
- Retells, recalls, and recounts details
- Reads and follows simple directions
- Uses pictures to confirm and not just predict text
- Reads on to regain meaning
- Uses appropriate directionality when reading diagrams, story maps, charts, poems
- Uses -s, -ed, -ing, -er, and -est endings
- Identifies and uses adjectives, nouns, verbs, prepositions, conjunctions, and pronouns
- Reads table of contents and glossary
Writing
- Writes two or more sentences that focus on a topic
- Contributes to group writing
- Composes using a variety of forms (letters, stories, journal entries, narratives
- Uses drawing, mapping, and/or listing for prewriting
- Uses a simplified version of beginning, middle, and end for stories
- Edits for basic capitalization and periods
- Uses verbs that agree with subjects in person and number
- Uses personal and possessive pronouns correctly
- Uses adjectives to elaborate
- Develops a bank of words that are consistently spelled correctly
- Uses phonetic knowledge to approximate spelling of unknown words
Communication
- Retells a major event when listening to a story
- Follows simple oral directions
- Tells about self and interests
- Listens to presentations of teacher or peers and responds by answering questions, asking questions, and giving
- Comments
- Tells stories with expression
- Participates in rhyme, poems, and group response
- Role plays with others
Math
- Count, recognize, write, and order whole numbers to 100
- Identify halves and fourths of an object or set of objects
- Compute to solve whole number problem situations involving addition and subtraction
- Estimate to determine if a solution to an addition or subtraction situation is reasonable
- Create and use strategies to solve addition or subtraction facts
- Use nonstandard units to measure length, area, capacity, and time
- Use objects and bar graphs to organize and interpret data collected to solve everyday problem situations
- Organize and clarify mathematical information using words, pictures, or numbers
- Place value, tens and ones, order and compare numbers
- Recognizes the penny, nickel, dime, quarter, and dollar and expresses value using cent notation
- Tells time to the hour and half hour
Additional helps:
- Read with your child daily
- Have your child observe you read daily
- Talk about things you have read
- Compare book characters to real people
- Regular visits to the community library
- Talk about things you/your child have read
- Encourage your child to write- notes, letters, lists, messages
- Play games with your child -(word, board, cards)
- Practice counting money
- Practice telling time from a clock with a face
- Encourage your child to count, sort, and organize household items
- Cook with your child
- Ask your child about his/her day
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