Reading Standards and Accomplishments
First Nine Weeks	Uses  illustrations to preview text and to discuss main ideas.
	Makes predictions about text.
	Sequences events in a story.
	Recites poems, chants and songs.
	Names all uppercase letters.
	Names all lowercase letters.
	Participates in whole class shared reading to build listening vocabulary.
	Follows simple two-step oral directions to develop listening skills.
Second Nine Weeks	Demonstrates knowledge of concepts of print by identifying the front and back cover of a book, turning pages appropriately, and tracking print with finger, beginning on the top left and return sweeping at the end of each line.
	Recognizes words that have same beginning sounds.
	Produces letter sounds in correspondence with appropriate letters.
	Recognizes and produces rhyming words.
	Develops and maintains a motivation to read by actively participating and progressing in small reading groups.
	Uses sound stretching of one syllable words to identify each phoneme.
	Uses sound blending of each separately spoken phoneme to make meaningful words.
	Uses letter-sound matches to decode simple words.
Third Nine Weeks	Reads simple text containing familiar letter-sound correspondences and high frequency words.
	Reads 25 of the 100 most frequent sight words with ease.
	Recognizes words that have same ending sounds.
Fourth Nine Weeks	Understands words are made up of one or more syllables.
	Shows evidence of reading comprehension when listening and reading independently.
	Names the internet, books, magazines, people, etc. as sources from which to gain information.