Kindergarten kids will soon be bringing books home every night. Please help
them remember to read their books to family members, pets, stuffed animals,
mirrors - anyone or anything that will listen! Reading a book over and over
again builds fluency, so encourage them to read it more than once. They may
get a new book when the previous one is returned.
Calhan School District Reading Checklist
Reading Standard1: Students read and understand a variety of materials.
K-2 Benchmark: Apply appropriate strategies to create meaning while reading.
Concepts of Print
•Handles books correctly
•Understands directionality of print (left to right)
•Demonstrates voice-print match (points to the correct word when reading)
•Uses pictures to predict print
•Recognizes that print carries meaning
•Follows written text when it is read aloud
Understanding of Text
•Uses background knowledge to construct meaning
•Tells a simple story with a beginning, middle, and end
•Retells a known story in sequence
•Uses pictures to predict and tell a story
Strategies (decoding)
•Recognizes patterns of sound in oral language (identifies rhyming words)
•Hears and repeats initial sounds in words
Skills
•Knows letters in own name (first and last)
•Knows own name in print
•Recognizes difference between numeral and letter
•Recognizes difference between lower and upper case letters
Calhan School District Sight Words: Kindergarten
a see me green
big to one I
blue we play it
down yellow run look
funny and the my
help black two orange
in can where purple
jump find you said
make go away three
not here brown up
pink is come white
red little for am
