Reading

KINDERGARTEN

The reading and writing report card indicators are based on end-of-year standards from the Common Core.  It is common for students to still be “Developing” toward those standards midyear.  Unmarked indicators have not yet been assessed.  

Foundational Skills: 

  • Reading Habits: Reads with stamina and engagement  

  • Print Concepts: Understands basic features of print; left-right, spaces, text-voice match. Recognizes and names all capital and lowercase letters of the alphabet. 

  • Phonological Awareness: Demonstrates understanding of syllables, sounds (phonemes), and rhyming words

  • Phonics: Decodes all consonant sounds, CVC words in isolation, and all short vowel sounds

  • Sight Words: Reads grade-appropriate high frequency words by sight 

  • Comprehension: Reads and comprehends texts at grade level 

Narrative Reading:

  • Summarize: With prompting, retells a story including beginning, middle, and end

  • Compare and Contrast: With prompting, identifies similarities and differences in familiar stories

Informational Reading: 

  • Summarize: With prompting, identifies the main topic and retells key facts 

  • Text Features: With prompting, uses text features to locate key facts or information

  • Analysis:  With support, compares and contrasts two texts on similar topics

FIRST GRADE 

The reading and writing report card indicators are based on end-of-year standards from the Common Core.  It is common for students to still be “Developing” toward those standards midyear.  Unmarked indicators have not yet been assessed.  

Foundational Skills: 

  • Reading Habits: Reads independently with stamina and engagement

  • Print Concepts: Understands features of a sentence (first word, capitals, end punctuation)

  • Phonological Awareness: Demonstrates understanding of spoken words, syllables, & sounds (phonemes)

  • Phonics: Decodes long and short vowel sounds, regularly spelled one and two syllable words, and common consonant digraphs

  • Sight Words: Reads grade-appropriate high-frequency words by sight 

  • Fluency: Reads texts with accuracy and fluency at grade level 

  • Comprehension: Comprehends texts at grade level 

Narrative Reading:

  • Summarize: Retells major events in a story, including characters, setting and key details 

  • Compare and Contrast: Identifies similarities and differences in familiar stories 

Informational Reading: 

  • Summarize: Identifies the main topic and retells key details

  • Text Features: Uses text features to locate key facts or information

  • Analysis: Compares and contrasts two texts on similar topics