A Peek Into Kindergarten:
Students develop emergent literacy skills. Students will understand the important parts of a book, including the cover, title, and where to start reading. The students will also learn to identify the differences between a sentence, a word, and a letter. The best thing parents can do is read to their children. This provides a wonderful model of reading while building enjoyment and comprehension.
Kindergarteners participate in activities that build phonemic awareness, which is hearing sounds in words. Listening to nursery rhymes, clapping syllables in words, and hearing the sounds in the beginning, middle, and end of words can all help. Want to find out more about phonemic awareness? Click here: http://www.readingrockets.org/reading-topics/phonemic-awareness
Students build phonics skills by learning the names and sounds of the letters of the alphabet. From there, students will begin to blend sounds together to read simple words and break sounds apart in words to begin spelling them. Check out this website for more phonics activities: http://www.starfall.com/n/level-k/index/play.htm?f
Kindergartners begin to recognize sight words, which are high frequency words that cannot always be sounded out. Parents can help by pointing out this words in the world around them. Here is a link to the Dolch word list for kindergarten: http://www.kidzone.ws/dolch/kindergarten.htm
Students develop emergent literacy skills. Students will understand the important parts of a book, including the cover, title, and where to start reading. The students will also learn to identify the differences between a sentence, a word, and a letter. The best thing parents can do is read to their children. This provides a wonderful model of reading while building enjoyment and comprehension.
Kindergarteners participate in activities that build phonemic awareness, which is hearing sounds in words. Listening to nursery rhymes, clapping syllables in words, and hearing the sounds in the beginning, middle, and end of words can all help. Want to find out more about phonemic awareness? Click here: http://www.readingrockets.org/reading-topics/phonemic-awareness
Students build phonics skills by learning the names and sounds of the letters of the alphabet. From there, students will begin to blend sounds together to read simple words and break sounds apart in words to begin spelling them. Check out this website for more phonics activities: http://www.starfall.com/n/level-k/index/play.htm?f
Kindergartners begin to recognize sight words, which are high frequency words that cannot always be sounded out. Parents can help by pointing out this words in the world around them. Here is a link to the Dolch word list for kindergarten: http://www.kidzone.ws/dolch/kindergarten.htm