Literacy Development

1st. Quarter
September 6November 4
-Using words,
pictures or gestures,
students will:
-express basic needs
and feelings
-attend to stories
read aloud and
verbal commands
-express a thought,
idea, or opinion

2nd. Quarter
November 7-January
13
-express basic wants
and needs with words
- express feelings
-respond to simple
story questions
- express thought,
ideas and opinions
with words
-label familiar
objects, animals or
activities.

Comprehension

-attend to stories
read aloud

Letter Names &

Sounds

-identify and name

10-30 capital and
lowercase letters

Oral Language
Development

3rd. Quarter
January 16-March 17

4th. Quarter
March 20-May 26
-converse with others
to achieve solutions
-identify and discuss
the feelings of
characters and
others
- use new vocabulary
independently
-use expanded
sentences to express
thoughts, ideas and
opinions

- act out events of a

story with classmates
and teacher support
- make predictions
based on illustrations
in a text
-identify characters,
setting and problem
with teacher support

-express needs and

wants and recognize
those of others
- identify and
communicate
feelings of friends
-use new vocabulary
in group discussions
with support
-use simple
sentences to express
complete thoughts,
ideas, and opinions
-retell a story orally
with minimal prompts
-make connections
between stories and
their personal life
-identify characters,
setting and problem
with minimal teacher
support.

-identify and name

30-54 capital and
lowercase letters
-produce 0-10 sounds

- identify and name

30-54 capital and
lowercase letters
-produce 10-20

-retell a story orally

independently
- make predictions
and inferences about
the characters in a
story
-compare and
contrast characters
or information in
books
-identify and name
most letters and
sounds

Resources; Foundations Standards, CMS Pre-K pacing guide, Common Core Curriculum Standards K

Literacy Development
Print Concepts

-hold a book correctly

-start reading at
the front of the book
- identify
environmental print
around the room

-identify the title of

the book
-Understand that
print is read top to
bottom, left to right

Phonological
Awareness

-attend to rhyming
words in poems and
stories
-listen for beginning
sounds in classmates
names

-complete
predictable rhyming
pairs in poems and
stories
-recognize rhyming
patterns
- notice that different
words begin with the
same sound

Writing

-Write first name

conventionally or
with all caps
-write some letters or
letter like shapes
-use drawings to
express thoughts and
ideas

-Write first name

conventionally,
attempt to write last
name
-use a combination a
drawing and letters
to express ideas.
-verbally able to
describe main idea of

sounds
-demonstrate
directionality of print
-understand that
words are separated
by spaces in print

-choose between
three words to
determine a rhymeW
-identify number of
syllables with teacher
support
-isolate beginning
sounds in words with
teacher support
-segment words into
onset-rime with
teacher support.
-Write first and last
name conventionally
with support
-uses a combination
of drawing, letters
and letter strings to
express ideas
- verbally able to
describe main idea of

-demonstrate
directionality of print
including return
sweep
- Understand first/last
letter of a word,
first/last word of a
sentence.
-produce rhyming
pairs independently
- identify the number
of syllables in a word
independently
-isolate beginning
sounds in words
independently most
of the time

-Writes first and last

name independently
- uses 1 or 2 letters
to write words
- uses uppercase and
lower case
indiscriminately
-writes some words
correctly (sight

Resources; Foundations Standards, CMS Pre-K pacing guide, Common Core Curriculum Standards K

Literacy Development
drawing with support

drawing

words)

Resources; Foundations Standards, CMS Pre-K pacing guide, Common Core Curriculum Standards K