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Kindergarten Reading Focus Skills
--These skills are covered repeatedly over the course of the year--
- Letter names
- Letter sounds
- Beginning, middle and ending sound
- Blending 3-4 letter words
- Decoding
- Encoding
- Syllables
- Blend and segment phonemes
- Onset and rime (blending)
- Rhyming words
- Word families
- Words in oral sentence
- Constructing simple sentences
- Punctuation
o Period
o Question mark
o Exclamation point
o Quotation marks
o Comma
- Spacing
*Each night, if you go over the reading questions and Cuddle Conversations, you will touch upon each of these skills throughout the year as well*
- Characters
- Setting
- Story structure (beginning, middle, end)
- Problem/solution
- Inferences
- Predictions
- Summarize
- Clarify
- Analyze text
- Evaluate text
- Cause and effect
- Visualize
- Compare and contrast
- Drawing conclusions
- Text and graphic features
- Author’s purpose
- Author’s word choice
- Sequence of events
- Main Idea
- Details
- Figurative language
Oral Reading Skills:
- Fluency
- Pause for punctuation
- Expression
**Please reference Back to School Night packet for additional supporting information**
