Kindergarten (Age 5)
Children usually begin to:
- recognize and produce words that rhyme
- match some spoken and written words
- write letters, numbers, and words
- recognize some familiar words
- predict what will happen next in a story
- identify initial, final, and medial (middle) sounds in short words (for example, sit, sun)
- decode simple words in isolation (the word with definition) and in context (using the word in a sentence)
- accumulate more and more words in their memory, we call these words sight words or high frequency words
- retell the main idea, identify details (who, what, when, where, why, how), and arrange story events in sequence