Reading K

Essential Learning Target:

Recognize, hear, and produce patterns of sound in oral language:

-rhyme

-alliteration

-onset/rime

Student Friendly:

-Make a rhyme.

-Use words beginning with the same sound (alliteration).

-Say the beginning sound and the rest of the word.

Match pictures or words that rhyme

Identify a missing rhyming word in a poem or rhyme

Identify the onset and rime for a given word

Houghton Mifflin Resource Materials

Lesson Maps and Templates

Phonemic Awareness resources

Nursery Rhymes

Teacher selected games and activities

Teacher observation

Classroom participation

Phoneme Segmentation Fluency (DIBELS)

1^st – 4^th quarters

Essential Learning Target:

Identify, blend, and segment the phonemes of most one-syllable words.

Student Friendly:

Tap out and blend the sounds in a word.

Oral participation in the segmentation and blending of words

Identify the beginning sound of words

Identify the ending sound of words

Identify the middle sound of CVC words

Tap out beginning, middle, and ending sounds of CVC words

Houghton Mifflin Text and Student pages

Lesson Maps and Templates

Houghton Mifflin resources

HM Phonics Library books

Teacher observation

Student practice pages

Phonics Library Readers (running record)

DIBELS:

Initial Sound Fluency (ISF)

Phoneme Segmentation Fluency (PSF)

Nonsense Word Fluency (NWF)

1^st – 4^th quarters

Reading K 3

Essential Learning Target:

Recognize and name all letters and produce letter sounds

Student Friendly:

Know the name and sounds of all letters.

Learn letters in their names

Performance on HM Practice Book pages

Participation in daily activities such as large group, small group, work stations, etc.

Houghton Mifflin Text and Student pages

NLC Writing and other classroom writing activities

HM resources

Big books, poems, songs, etc.

Lesson Maps and Templates

Houghton Mifflin Practice Book pages

Daily participation

Writing Journals

HM Theme Tests

DIBELS

Report Card assessments

1^st – 4^th quarters

Essential Learning Target:

Read simple sight words

Student Friendly:

Read sight words

Knows recommended Houghton Mifflin sight words

Reads eleven color words (see report card)

Reads number words zero through twelve

Houghton Mifflin Text and Student pages

Beginning Readers by Mrs. Harris

Kinder Readers

HM Phonics Library and Leveled Readers

Word Wall

Writing Journal

Literacy Station activities

Writing Journals

Running Records on Emergent Readers

Report Card assessment

1^st – 4^th quarters

Essential Learning Target:

Increase vocabulary by understanding and using words and word meanings as encountered in books and conversation

Student Friendly:

Understand and use new words from books, from talking, and from instruction

Names pictures of common concepts

Uses words to describe location, size, color, and shape

Uses names and labels of basic concepts

Learns new vocabulary through stories and instruction

Houghton Mifflin Text and Student pages

HM Vocabulary Readers

Read Alouds

Writing Process

Word Walls

DIBELS Word Use Fluency

Teacher Observation

1^st – 4^th quarters

Essential Learning Target:

Tells a simple story with beginning, middle, and end.

Student Friendly:

Tell a story using beginning, middle, and end.

Attentively listen to a story

Participates in discussion about beginning, middle, and end of a story

Respond to a story with pictures for beginning, middle, and end

Orally respond to a story

Houghton Mifflin Text and Student pages

Fairy Tales

Flannel Board Stories

Teacher Created Resources

Teacher observation

Houghton Mifflin Practice Book pages

1^st – 4^th quarters

Essential Learning Target:

Listen to and comprehend a variety of genres

-poems

-nursery rhymes

-fairy tales

-pattern stories

-repetition stories

Student Friendly:

Listen to and understand:

-poems

-nursery rhymes

-fairy tales

-pattern stories

-repetition stories

Sits attentively during a story

Retells a story

Acts out a story

Participates in a story response

Able to supply rhyming words or repetitive portions of a story or poem

Children’s literature

Rhymes

Poetry

Pocket Chart activities

Flannel board

Puppets

Teacher-made responses

Houghton Mifflin activity pages

Teacher Observation

Completion of activity pages or responses

Group participation

Student engagement during story

1^st – 4^th quarters

Essential Learning Target:

Demonstrates an understanding of a story by :

-retelling a story in own words with correct sequence

-identifying character, setting, and key events

Student Friendly:

-Retell a story in the correct order.

-Tell the characters, setting, and important parts.

Listens attentively to a story

Understands the meaning of sequence

Identifies the characters and setting of a story

Describes important events of a story

Completes a teacher-made response or Houghton Mifflin student page

Houghton Mifflin Text and Student pages

Children’s literature

Flannel board activities

Teacher-made resources

Houghton Mifflin Theme Tests

HM Student pages

Teacher observation

Student participation

1^st – 4^th quarters

Essential Learning Target:

Understands concepts of print:

-handles books correctly

-understands directionality of print

-voice-print match

-print carries meaning

Student Friendly:

-Handle books the right way.

-Read from left to right.

-Read one word for each word written.

-Reading words gives us meaning.

Demonstrates proper handling of a book

Demonstrates reading front to back

Identifies the parts of a book

Demonstrates left to right directionality

Uses voice-print match when reading

Demonstrates understanding that print has meaning

Writes their own ideas or writes what has been dictated

Houghton Mifflin individual student books

Children’s literature

Poems, songs, rhymes, calendar activities

Book boxes

Kinder Readers and Mrs. Harris Books

Journals

Class-made books

Pointers

Teacher observation

Student participation

Text-level measures

1^st – 4^th quarters

Essential Learning Target:

Use pictures to predict the text and words.

Student Friendly:

-Use pictures to predict what something is about.

-Use pictures to figure out a word.

Listens to stories and to the Teacher Think-Alouds

Participates in the Think-Alouds

Participates in small group activities using the emergent readers

Uses the pictures on the page to decode the text

Children’s literature

Houghton Mifflin Teacher’s Guide

Houghton Mifflin Individual student books

Leveled reading material, Kinder Readers, Mrs. Harris books, Class-made books

Teacher Observation

Text Level Measures

1^st – 4^th quarters