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Kindergarten Reading: What Your Child Learns Through the True North Reading program, your child learns phonemic reading and spelling, visual tracking and fluency, comprehension, and classical and cultural literacy. Through hands on learning, active listening, and story, here are the reading tasks of Initio Academy Kindergarten:
Phonemics
1. Understands that spoken words are made of separate sounds
2. Understands the concept of Sound Pictures – that one or more letters (combined) represent a sound (e.g. Basic Code /ck/)
3. Understands the concept that a Sound Picture can be shared among sounds (e.g. Basic Code /s/ and s-buzz)
4. Understands that more than one Sound Picture can represent a sound (e.g. Basic Code /c/, /k/, and /ck/)
5. Understands the Two-Sided-Coin Concept of Reading and Spelling: sounds can be drawn as pictures (“Sound Pictures”) and, conversely, visual Sound Pictures (letters and letter combinations) can be decoded to spoken sound
6. Understands that sounds can be “long” (able to be held out) or short (plosive/not able to be held out) and that a sound’s length influences reading fluency
7. Recognizes the 28 Sound Pictures of the Basic Code (a, b, c, k, ck, d, e, f, g, h, i, j, l, m, n, o, p, r, s, t, u, v, w, y, z, s-buzz, x, qu), matching the sound to the picture, and vice versa
8. Understands the Concept of Blends as two and three distinct sounds spoken together, side-by-side, each keeping its distinct sound while reading
9. Recognizes and can read and spell (match the sound to picture and picture to sound) the 28 two- and three-sound Beginning Consonant Blends
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10. Recognizes and can read and spell (match the sound to picture and picture to sound) the 20 two- and three-sound End Consonant Blends
11. Can rhyme end sounds of real and nonsense words
12. Can identify (visually and by hearing) and match the vowels with their Sound Pictures (/a/, /e/, /i/, /o/, /u/)
13. Understands the need to identify the need to read a “short” Sound Picture internally with its neighboring vowel before speaking the sound combination, and can do so with short consonant-vowel combinations (e.g. Basic Code b, c, k, d, g, j, p, and t with vowels following)
14. Can identify the vowel and its sound in CV, CVC, CVCC, and CCVC combinations (C = consonant, V=vowel)
15. Identifies and can manipulate separate sounds in CV, CVC, CVCC, and CCVC combination words
16. Fluently identifies and reads 12 memory words – individually, in sentences, and in story
17. Reads select CV, VC, CVC, CVCC, and CCVC words – individually, in sentences, and in story
18. Identifies and matches upper and lower case letters
19. Fluently reads two- and three-word sentences
20. Understands the concept of capitalization for proper names and at the beginning of sentences
21. Can identify up to three syllables in words, matching with clapping
22. Understands the meaning and use of the four punctuation symbols of (.), (,), (!), and (?) in reading, as demonstrated through parallel-unison and individual reading, using breath appropriately with an adult while tracking reading
23. Recognizes his/her written name individually and in story
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Visual Tracking
1. Visually discerns all 28 Basic Code sounds from shapes in groups of two, three, and full-line layouts
2. Visually discerns Basic Code sounds in words and lines of words
3. Tracks and marks up to ten (10) lines of Basic Code sounds back to back (top of page to bottom of page; left to right and returning) in one fluid movement
4. Can stop, start, pause/wait, and resume visual tracking with visual cues (stars, dots, arrows; period, comma)
5. Understands and waits in the space between words on cue (verbal, with finger, and visually with end punctuation)
6. Understands and responds to the concept of end punctuation in parent and personal reading
7. Tracks parent reading across multiple lines with cues (finger, object)
8. Uses template windows effectively to block multiple lines of text while fluently reading two- and three-word sentences in lines
9. Fluently follows lines of up to 28 Basic Code sounds in the Add-On Game
10. Fluently reads sounds forward and backward (left-right and right-left) in combinations of up to 20 individual sounds
Comprehension and Reading Aloud
1. Listens attentively to story
2. Understands, asks, and answers Six Inquiry Questions after listening to story: who, what, when, where, why, how
3. Answers yes, no, and open ended questions after listening to story
4. Understands and uses the concept of Prior Knowledge and how it relates to story
5. Uses predicting in simple story sentences and paragraphs
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6. Uses summarizing in simple story sentences and paragraphs, to retell a concept and/or a story
7. Can sequence first, next, and last in a verbal recounting of a story
8. Can identify change in character, plot, setting, tone, and conflict in story
9. Can identify main idea
10. After listening to a story, can respond with literal one-to-one text-from-memory answers
11. Can reason answers from simple “What comes next?” implications
12. Increases vocabulary weekly (between four to seven words) from classic, bible, and historical readings
13. Understands single and multiple word relationships for reading comprehension
14. In discussion, completes sentences with prompting and with expanding sentences and concepts (next-step thinking)
15. Identifies page positions of top left, left to right, return to left, and top to bottom of page
16. Identifies the beginning, middle, and end (the “three-act structure”) of bible stories, Aesop’s Fables, and classic stories
17. Identifies book characteristics: front, back, title, table of contents, chapters, author, and illustrator
18. Identifies a sequence of change in character and plot
19. Identifies compare and contrast in story
20. Identifies and understands the difference between real and imaginary stories
21. In story, identifies and understands cultural differences and the concept of cultural stories
22. Understands and feels comfortable generating and asking clarifying questions
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23. Is introduced to analogies (“this story/action can be shown by the similar…”), synonyms (“another word for this is…”), and simile (“this is like/as…”); compares through pictures and familiar events/places/things)
24. Understands the Relationship of the Units of Reading: the reader reads through decoding Sound Pictures, words, sentences, and paragraphs