Week/

Month

Content

Skills for Student Achievement

Assessment

Performance Standards Addressed

Sept.

  • Visual discrimination
  • Recognize their own printed name
  • Teacher observation
  • I.B1

 

  • Auditory discrimination
  • Use words to describe location, size, color, shape, direction, and action
  • Student demonstration
  • I.B2
  • I.B3

 

  • Introduce letters M and T
  • Follow two-step directions
  • See Math assessment
  • III.A2

 

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  • Begin to recognize letter symbols for speech sounds
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  • I.A2

 

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  • Perform songs and finger plays
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  • III.A5

 

 

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  • Listen to and enjoy stories
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  • ID5

 

 

 

  • Identify upper and lower case letters, M, T, and their sounds
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  • I.A3

 

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  • Left to right, top to bottom, front to back progression
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  • III.B1
  • III.B2

Oct.

  • Visual discrimination

Sequence 3 part story cards

 

  • I.D3

 

  • Auditory discrimination
  • Introduce letters F, N, H, A
  • Listen to and enjoy stories
  • The student will identify beginning consonant sounds and ending sounds in single-syllable words
  • Repeat songs and finger plays
  • Identify upper and lower case letters F, N, H, A
  • Ongoing review of letters previously taught
  • Correctly write the numbers 0 through 9
  • Continue left to right progression

·         Teacher observation

·         Student demonstration

·         Individual assessment

  • I.D5
  • I.A4

 

 

 

  • III.A5

 

  • I.A3

 

 

 

  • II.E2
  • III.B1

 

 

 

 

 

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Nov.

  • Visual discrimination
  • Auditory discrimination
  • Introduce letters P, Z
  • Continue to sequence 3 part story with cards
  • Identify upper and lower case P and Z and their sounds
  • Ongoing review of letter identification
  • Repeat songs and finger plays
  • Continue to identify beginning consonant sounds and ending sounds in single-syllable words.
  • Listen to and enjoy stories

·         Teacher observation

·         Student demonstration

 

·         Informal assessment

 

 

  • I.D3

 

 

  • I.A3

 

 

 

  • III.A5

 

  • I.A4

 

 

  • I.D5

 

 

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Dec.

·         Visual discrimination

·         Auditory discrimination

·         Introduce letter B,I,S

  • Continue left to right progression with charts and stories                 
  • Sequence 3-4 part story events orally and with picture cards. Continue to recognize same and different and beginning and ending sounds.
  • Repeat songs and finger plays
  • Listen to and enjoy stories
  • Identification of upper and lower case B,I S and their sounds
  • Ongoing letter review

·                     Teacher observation

·                     Student demonstration

  • I.B1

 

 

  • I.D3

 

 

 

 

 

  • III.A5
  • I.D5
  • I.A3

 

 

 

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Jan.

·         Visual discrimination

·         Auditory discrimination

·         Story interpretation

·         Introduce letters D, L, W, V

  • Continuation of color words
  • Continue left to right progression
  • Match rhyming pictures
  • Repeat songs, finger plays, and rhythm patterns
  • Identify beginning consonant sounds and ending sounds in single-syllable words
  • Identification of upper and lower case D, L, W, V and their sounds
  • Ongoing letter review
  • Predict and infer story

       happenings using context                       clues

  • Write or draw response that demonstrates comprehension
  • Relate texts to prior knowledge and experiences
  • Identify fact from fiction
  • Listen to and enjoy stories
  • Teacher observation
  • Student demonstration
  • Informal assessment
  • I.B2

 

  • III.B1

 

  • I.A5

 

  • III.A5

 

  • I.A4

 

 

  • I.A3

 

 

 

  • I.C2

 

 

  • I.C3

 

 

  • I.C4

 

 

  • I.D1
  • I.D5

 

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Feb.

·         Visual discrimination

·         Auditory discrimination

·         Story interpretation

·         Introduce letters O, R, G

  • Continue identification and usage of color words
  • Continue left to right progression
  • Repeat songs, finger plays, rhymes and rhythm patterns
  • Respond orally to language patterns in stories and poems
  • Use voice level appropriate for language situation
  • Ask and respond to questions
  • Continue to recognize same and different beginning and ending sounds
  • Identification of upper and lower case O, R, G and their sounds
  • Ongoing letter review
  • Continue predictions of story happenings
  • Use context to predict and infer word meanings
  • Learn new words from explicit instruction
  • Listen to and enjoy stories
  • Respond to literature using details from the story to make personal connections
  • Role playing
  • Retell stories using beginning, middle, and end
  • Identify fact from fiction
  • Teacher observation
  • Student demonstration
  • Informal assessment
  • I.B2

 

  • III.B1

 

  • III.A5

 

 

  • III.A6

 

 

  • III.A7

 

 

  • III.A8

 

  • I.A4

 

 

 

  • I.A3

 

 

 

  • I.C2

 

  • I.B4

 

  • I.B5

 

  • I.D5

 

  • I.D4

 

 

 

  • I.D3

 

 

  • I.D1

 

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March

  • Visual discrimination
  • Auditory discrimination
  • Story interpretation
  • Introduce letters U, E, J, C
  • Begin sight word development
  • Continue color words
  • Identify upper and lower case U, E, J, C and their sounds
  • Ongoing letter review
  • Sequence 4-5 part stories
  • Listen to and enjoy stories
  • Clap syllables in children’s names
  • Continue fact from fiction identification
  • Continue prediction
  • Story retelling
  • Teacher observation
  • Student demonstration
  • Informal assessment
  • I.A6
  • I.B2

 

  • I.A3

 

 

 

  • I.D3
  • I.D5

 

 

  • I.D1
  • I.C2
  • I.D3

 

 

 

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April

  • Visual discrimination
  • Auditory discrimination
  • Story interpretation
  • Introduce letters K, Q, Y, X

 

  • Continue sight word development
  • Match partner (upper and lower case) letters
  • Continue to associate letters with sounds
  • Continue rhyming skills
  • Identify upper and lower case letters K, Q Y, X and their sounds
  • Ongoing letter review
  • Continue fact and fiction, story retelling, prediction
  • Discuss author, illustrator
  • Teacher observation
  • Student demonstration
  • I.A6

 

  • I.A3

 

  • I.A1, I.A2

 

  • I.A5

 

  • I.A3

 

 

  • I.D1

 

 

 

 

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May

  • Reading readiness
  • Review of above skills
  • Teacher observation
  • Student demonstration
  • Individual oral/written testing
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