The perfect supplement to your core early reading program!
Everyday Literacy: Listening and Speaking, Grade K helps you support receptive and expressive language development in your early reading program with fun, focused daily lessons.
The 20 weekly units in grade K cover Reading First's Five Essential Components, including:
Oral Vocabulary Development:
- Relating new vocabulary to prior knowledge
- Speaking in complete sentences
- Responding appropriately to directions and questions
- Interpreting illustrations
- Reciting short poems, rhymes, and songs
- Using language to show reasoning
- Developing auditory memory
- Taking turns speaking in a group
Comprehension:
- Making predictions
- Making inferences and drawing conclusions
- Making connections using illustrations, prior knowledge, and real-life experiences
- Categorizing and classifying
Comparing and contrasting
- Determining cause and effect
- Noting details
- Recalling details
Phonological Awareness:
- Identifying common beginning and ending consonant sounds
- Identifying rhymes and rhyming sounds
- Identifying medial short and long vowel sounds
- Breaking words into syllables
- Identifying differences between similar sounding words
Motor Skills:
- Developing small muscle coordination
- Developing large muscle coordination