Critical Content
Power Standards
- Demonstrate an understanding of print concepts, phonological awareness, and word analysis and decoding skills in order to read appropriate texts with purpose and understanding. (RF K.1, K.2, K.3, K.4)
Power Standards Critical Content
In the language of instruction, students will…
- Read words left to right, top to bottom, and page-by-page
- Recognize that letters are put together in a specific order to make words, and words make sentences
- Recognize that words are separated by spaces before and after them
- Recognize and name all of the capital letters and lower case letters in the alphabet
- Recognize words with the same end sound
- Rhyme one word with another
- Count, pronounce, blend and segment syllables in spoken words
- Blend and segment single syllable words
- Identify the beginning sound, vowel, sound, and end sound of words (three-phoneme words)
- Add or change beginning, middle, or end sounds to create new words
- See a consonant and know the sound it makes
- Say the long and short sounds of each vowel
- Recognize the common spelling of long and short vowel sounds
- Read sight words without having to sound them out
- Identify the letter sound that is different in words with similar spellings
- Retell stories orally
- Recognize and read text with common sight words
Additional Critical Content
- Read emergent-reader texts with purpose and understanding