- Listens with interest to stories read aloud
- Retells a simple story
- Recognizes all letters and sounds of the alphabet
- Distinguishes between and prints all capital and lower-case letters
- Recognizes rhymes and rhyming patterns
- Makes predictions about a story based on title and pictures
- Identifies words and constructs meaning from text and picture clues
- Identifies basic sight words
- Distinguishes fact from fiction
- Identifies story elements of setting, plot, character, and conflict (who, what, where, when, why, and how)
- Uses personal perspectives in responding to stories (relating to characters)
- Begins to understand simple punctuation marks (question mark, period, etc)
- Understands and follows simple directions
- Listens to others for short periods of time without interrupting
- Participates in discussions and conversations
- Asks questions
- Speaks clearly to convey messages and requests
- Distinguishes between asking and telling
- Uses complete sentences
- Retells a simple story with basic elements of beginning, middle, and end
- Reads and writes his/her own first and last name
- Writes familiar words
- Copies or writes words to convey messages
- Builds simple words and sentences
- Demonstrates left-to-right progression and top-to-bottom progression
- Handles writing tools correctly
- Names and writes numerals 0-50
- Understands the effects of addition and subtraction
- Understands the concept of numbers and quantity
- Identifies pairs
- Classifies and compares objects and symbols
- Solves problems by guessing and checking using manipulatives
- Knows how to count to 100
- Knows how to add to 5 and subtract from 5 without the use of fingers or manipulatives
- Becomes familiar with common tools used for measuring time and temperature
- Estimates and measures real quantities using non-standard units (blocks or paper clips)
- Understands and uses comparative words (long and short, heavy and light, etc)
- Shows an understanding of the calendar and time
- Knows the days of the week and months of the year
- Knows the value of a penny, a nickel, a dime, and a quarter and can identify each coin
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