K5 Learning Targets for Reading/Language Arts

The learner will:

Target 1:

Participate in oral language activities by joining in large group activities such as:  shared readings and recitations of poems, big books, songs, and chart stories.

 track print and point to words/letters

 act out fingerplays, songs, stories, etc.

participate in class discussions of stories

participate in shared writing experiences

participate in sharing time (“show & tell”)

demonstrate appropriate listening skills to peers and teachers

demonstrate increasingly complex vocabulary and sentence structure

Target 2:

Draw a picture story in response to a prompt

Draw a picture story reflecting a personnel event. The picture story will show increasingly complex organization, details and representational figures

Label objects in the picture

Write a sentence that corresponds with the picture using conventions of print (spacing, punctuation, appropriate use of capital letters

Write stories using 2-4 sentences

Spell semi-phonetically i.e. consonant sounds (initial, medial, final) some vowels

Target 3:

Use picture clues

Draw upon background knowledge

Make predictions

Sequence story events

Make text comparisons

Target 4:

Match pictures to letters sounds

Auditorily discriminate letter sounds, rhymes, etc.

Identify and recite letters and their sounds

Target 5:

Have ample time to read a variety of texts independently

Listen to and engage in discussions of a variety of texts

Participate in a guided reading group

Target 6:

Use picture clues

Identify word families

Utilize alphabet charts

Assemble phonics puzzles

Match words to pictures

Identify content words in print

Target 7:

Participate in various word wall activities

Identify sight words in print (big books, hand-made booklets, charts, poems)

Identify sight words using Flash cards

Play commercially or teacher made sight word games

Use the word wall in writing experiences

Target 8:

See activities for # 5 & #6

Target 9:

Engage in multiple readings of texts

create booklets based on predictable texts

engage in multiple readings of predictable books

Target 10:

participate in the Bedtime book program

check out library books

 take home class newsletters

participate in monthly homework calendar program

read student made books at home