Beginners develop basic concepts about print (e.g., that print holds meaning) and how books work (e.g., text organization). Reading and learning to read are problem solving processes that require strategies for the reader to make sense of written language and remain engaged with texts. Grade Level Indicator: Tools and Resources: Determine the meaning of unknown words, with assistance, using a beginner's dictionary.Ĭoncepts of Print, Comprehension Strategies and Self-Monitoring Strategies: Students develop and learn to apply strategies that help them to comprehend and interpret informational and literary texts. Grade Level Indicator: Conceptual Understanding: Identify words in common categories such as color words, number words and directional words. Grade Level Indicator: Conceptual Understanding: Recognize and understand words, signs and symbols seen in everyday life. Grade Level Indicator: Contextual Understanding: Understand new words from the context of conversations or from the use of pictures within a text. Use resources to determine the meanings and pronunciations of unknown words. Know the meaning of specialized vocabulary by applying knowledge of word parts, relationships and meanings. Read accurately high-frequency sight words.Īpply structural analysis skills to build and extend vocabulary and to determine word meaning. Use context clues to determine the meaning of new vocabulary.
As students progress through the grades, they become more proficient in applying their knowledge of words (origins, parts, relationships, meanings) to acquire specialized vocabulary that aids comprehension. They learn to apply word analysis skills to build and extend their own vocabulary. They use context clues, as well as direct explanations provided by others, to gain new words. Grade Level Indicator: Reread stories independently or as a group, modeling patterns of changes in timing, voice and expression.Īcquisition of Vocabulary: Students acquire vocabulary through exposure to language-rich situations, such as reading books and other texts and conversing with adults and peers. Grade Level Indicator: Read one-syllable and often-heard words by sight. Grade Level Indicator: Hear and say the separate phonemes in words, such as identifying the initial consonant sound in a word, and blend phonemes to say words. Grade Level Indicator: Distinguish letters from words by recognizing that words are separated by spaces. Grade Level Indicator: Recognize, say and write the common sounds of letters. Grade Level Indicator: Distinguish and name all upper- and lower-case letters. Grade Level Indicator: Distinguish the number of syllables in words by using rhythmic clapping, snapping or counting. Grade Level Indicator: Identify and complete rhyming words and patterns. Grade Level Indicator: Read own first and last name. Use letter-sound correspondence knowledge and structural analysis to decode words.ĭemonstrate fluent oral reading, using sight words and decoding skills, varying intonation and timing as appropriate for text.
By the end of the third grade, they demonstrate fluent oral reading, varying their intonation and timing as appropriate for the text. They build a stock of sight words that helps them to read quickly and accurately with comprehension. They discover the alphabetic principle (sound-symbol match) and learn to use it in figuring out new words. Phonemic Awareness, Word Recognition and Fluency: Students in the primary grades learn to recognize and decode printed words, developing the skills that are the foundations for independent reading.
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