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SCOPE AND SEQUENCE
Reading
Concepts of Print and Print Awareness
Pre-K
K
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Develop awareness that print represents spoken language and conveys and preserves meaning • • •          
Recognize familiar books by their covers; hold book right side up • •            
Identify parts of a book and their functions (front cover, title page/title, back cover, page numbers) • • •          
Understand the concepts of letter, word, sentence, paragraph, and story • • •          
Track print (front to back of book, top to bottom of page, left to right on line, sweep back left for next line) • • •          
Match spoken to printed words • • •          
Know capital and lowercase letter names and match them • • T •          
Know the order of the alphabet • • •          
Recognize first name in print • • •          
Recognize the uses of capitalization and punctuation   • •          
Value print as a means of gaining information • • •          
Phonological and Phonemic Awareness
Pre-K
K
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6
Phonological Awareness                
Recognize and produce rhyming words • • •          
Track and count each word in a spoken sentence and each syllable in a spoken word • • •          
Segment and blend syllables in spoken words     •          
Segment and blend onset and rime in one-syllable words   • •          
Recognize and produce words beginning with the same sound • • •          
Identify beginning, middle, and/or ending sounds that are the same or different • • •          
Understand that spoken words are made of sequences of sounds • • •          
Phonemic Awareness                
Identify the position of sounds in words   • •          
Identify and isolate initial, final, and medial sounds in spoken words • • •          
Blend sounds orally to make words or syllables   • •          
Segment a word or syllable into sounds; count phonemes in spoken words or syllables   • •          
Manipulate sounds in words (add, delete, and/or substitute phonemes) • • •          
Phonics and Decoding
Pre-K
K
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6
Phonics                
Understand and apply the alphabetic principle that spoken words are composed of sounds
that are represented by letters		 • • •          
Know letter-sound relationships • • T • T • T        
Blend sounds of letters to decode   • • T • T • T      
Consonants, consonant blends, and consonant digraphs   • • T • T • T      
Short, long, and r-controlled vowels; vowel digraphs; diphthongs; common vowel patterns     • T • T • T      
Phonograms/word families   • • • •      
Word Structure                
Decode words with common word parts   • • T • T • T • • •
Base words and inflected endings     • T • T • • • •
Contractions and compound words     • T • T • T • • •
Suffixes and prefixes     • T • T • T • • •
Greek and Latin roots           • • •
Blend syllables to decode words     • T • T • T • • •
Decoding Strategies                
Blending strategy: Apply knowledge of letter-sound relationships to decode unfamiliar words   • • • •      
Apply knowledge of word structure to decode unfamiliar words   • • • • • • •
Use context and syntax along with letter-sound relationships and word structure to decode   • • • • • • •
Self-correct     • • • • • •
Fluency
Pre-K
K
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5
6
Read aloud fluently with accuracy, comprehension, appropriate pace/rate; with
expression/intonation (prosody); with attention to punctuation and appropriate phrasing		     • T • T • T • T • T • T
Practice fluency in a variety of ways, including choral reading, partner/paired reading, Readers' Theater, repeated oral reading, and tape-assisted reading   • • • • • • •
  • instructional opportunity   T  tested in standardized test format