Kindergarten Reading and Phonics helps ready readers build on the foundation of letters to move into building words, word families, sentences, and, take the first steps towards independent reading.

  • Guiding Readers Curriculum
  • Letter recognition and formation
  • C-V-C words
  • Word families
  • Digraphs
  • Long and short vowels
  • Print languages (where do I begin on a page; identifying punctuation marks, etc.)
  • Phonological Awareness (syllable blending and segmentation, rhyme completion and production, etc.)
  • High frequency words
  • Literature tools (visualize, make connections, predictions, inference, etc.)
  • Vocabulary
  • Grammar