Materials & Resources

• The Progressive Pictorial Primer Text and report or report 2 or
  
• Primer vlibrary Your choice of primers (on menu bar)
• Sight Reader  Student Dictionary for newly learned words. Assignment Book Assignment, write down any new words that you have learned from the Text.
• Handwriting Beginning  Crayola Practice pages (Crayola Site)
  Preschool-Kinder Manuscript handwriting
• Color for hand-eye coordination Alpha letters
• How to Teach Phonics (Book)      PDF     DOC
• McGuffey's Alphabet
• Short a words | Short e and i | Short o | Misc
• Between the Lions Early Reading BBC Capital Letters
• Literature, music (Music)
  Nursery rhymes, fairy tales, Rebus Rhymes , fables
• Phonics
• Stories from Mainlesson.com

Topics to be Covered this Year

• Begin writing Alphabet, do not be concerned about backwards letters, or control of pencil, work on grip. Have your child begin to memorize his or her own name and to write it on his or her own paper.
• A-z 1-20   Begin Alphabet and Phonics flash cards for recognition Phonics
• phonemic awareness
• Print all phonics cards and begin teaching for retention this year. Use Card Stock if you can, they last longer.
• Social listening: Turn taking while listening, and story progression.
• Oral communication skills: Child can hold a conversation with a non-family member and be understood.
• Role play: Can take the perspective of another either in social situation, or in a pretend situation. Child can be the "doctor."
• Following and giving directions: Child can follow and give 2 step directions (some children are later in developing this skill).
• Paraphrasing and summarizing: Child can describe main idea or lesson of story. Constructing visual images while listening: child can imagine what is being described to him or her.

Additional Topics if Time Permits

• Choral reading: Read along with child, or have child read along with audio books or use the Awesome Talkster to read web pages and books
• Let child read Tara and Ben or other interactive books online
• Organizing ideas: Child can tell a story with a beginning, a middle, and an end.
• Relating events and experiences using complete sentences
• Listening for correct speech habits and word usage: Child can tell the difference between past, present and future in grammar. Uses plural nouns.
• Optional rhyming game courtesy of Quia

Extras

• Primary Reading and Literature Phonics and early childhood literature guide

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Primary Reading and Literature