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