Pre-K children should be able to:
- Know that written symbols have meaning and lead to letter recognition and identification (i.e., knowing names).
- Recall beginning/middle/end of story (sequencing).
- Recall stories independently.
- Dictate a story.
- Retell a story in his or her own words.
- Recognize front, middle, and end of book.
- Recognize own name.
- Recognize classmate’s names.
- Recognize the upper case letters of the alphabet (both in and out of sequence).
- Begin to recognize lower case letters.
- Recognize signs in their environment.
- Recognize rhyming words.
- Begin to rhyme simple words.
- Recognize familiar words (e.g., the class schedule).
- Write first name.
- Begin to make a connection between letters and their sounds.
- Begin to recognize the beats in a word (syllables).
- Participate in the Sounds in Motion program.