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Kindergarten Reading, Language Arts, Spelling

The Kindergarten Language Arts program not only helps children learn how to read, but also to comprehend, appreciate, and enjoy reading. It combines phonological awareness, alphabet knowledge, print awareness, spelling, grammar and mechanics, book knowledge, and word structure analysis, along with phonics and decoding skills. Specific phonetic elements are learned in a logical order through systematic vocabulary in decodable books. The goal is to ensure that all children become capable, confident readers who understand sound/symbol relationships, gain meaning from print, and acquire an appreciation and understanding of the written word.

Objectives:

• Recognize rhyme
• Hear specific sounds at the beginning, middle, and end of words
• Understand sound / symbol correspondences for both reading and spelling
• Understand that words are made up of syllables
• Apply phonetic skills to temporary spelling
• Develop directionality; left to right, top to bottom, words/spaces
• Develop sequence, comprehension, and inference skills
• Observe word patterns, root words, affixes
• Recognize high-frequency sight words
• Develop fluency in reading through cumulative practice

Publisher: The Wright Group
                        The Wright Skills Phonics and Word Study
                        Individual phonetic readers and blackline masters
Level A:

• Consonants m, s, t
• Short vowel a
• Word families  -am, -at
• Consonants d, n, f, p
• Word families –ad, -an, -ap
• Consonants j, h, g
• Short vowel o
• Word families –og, -op, -ot
• Consonants b, w
• Short vowel I
• Word families –id, -ig,  -in, -ip, -it
• Consonants l, r, c
• Short vowel u
• Word families –ub, -ug, -un, -up, -ut
• Consonants k, v, y
• Short vowel e
• Word families –ed, -eg, -ell, -en, -et
• Consonants q, x, z
• Word families –ack, -ick, -ill
• Plurals
• Contractions
• Capitalization

Level B:

• Consonant review
• Short vowel review
• Word family review
• Plurals
• Verb endings –ed, -ing, -s, -es
• Initial blends: L family
• Initial blends: R family
• Initial blends: S family
• Final blends –nd, -nk, -nt
• Final blends –mp, -st
• 3 Letter blends: scr, spl, spr, str
• Long vowel a
• Long vowel o
• Long vowel i
• Long vowel u
• Long vowels e,y
• Open vowel pattern (fly, no, she)
• Diagraphs sh, ch, th, wh, ph
• Digraphs –ck, -ng
• Short e diagraph: ea
• Long a digraphs: ai, ay
• Long e digraphs: ea, ee, ey
• Long o digraphs: oa, oe, ow
• Digraphs ie, ue
• Variant vowels: al, au, aw, oo
• Dipthongs: ou, ow, oi, oy
• R-controlled vowels
• Hard and soft c and g
• Comparatives
• Prefixes and suffixes
• Contractions
• Compound words