Reading in Kindergarten

"Learning to read is probably the greatest single effort a human undertakes and he must do it as a child."          John Steinbeck  

                                       Kindergarten is the new first grade

"No Child Left Behind" has very high expectations for passing to first grade. This has required school districts to change their Kindergarten academic standards.

Sight vocabulary   40 to 80 words depending on the school district

Letter names and sounds   Knowledge of upper and lower case names and the most common sound

Phonemic awareness   Ability to rhyme, blend and segment sounds, count syllables 

Punctuation marks   Name and meaning of a period, comma, question mark, quotation marks and exclamation point.

Concepts about Print   Parts of the book:  front, back, author, illustrator, upper and lower case letters, which direction do we read, where do we begin reading, etc.     

              Help your child say, "Mama, Mama, I can read!"

                                 A parent is a child's best first teacher. 

Not all children learn to read at the same age or with the same method.  Ideally a child is taught to read with phonics and sight vocabulary.  It isn't a matter of only one way.             

Children need to know phonetic sounds and rules and use those skills whenever possible, but our language is not 100% phonetic.  A beginning reader must learn irregular sight words. They are also referred to as high frequency words.  When sight words are taught in the context of a meaningful sentence, only then is there comprehension and a key for remembering that word.  Children build confidence when they succeed. This program is a good foundation on which to build.  It is especially successful for home schoolers. 

                    Give your child the opportunity to be a successful reader!  

                             Teach them sounds and sight words using

                      "I Can Sing My Sounds" and "I Can Read 50 Words" 

                             written and created by a reading specialist.

                                          iris@readinginkindergarten.com

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