Jr. Kindergarten

”So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky”
        - William James.

Program Goals and Objectives

Phonemic Awareness

Children will be able to hear and identify individual sounds [five short vowels and twenty consonants] in the initial position of spoken words. More specifically, they will be able to:

  • Identify the letter sound at the beginning of a word, from a list of four orally presented words in the initial position of a word i.e. pit, pig, pat, poke = /p/.
  • Recognize a letter sound at the beginning of a word that is different from a list of orally presented words i.e. dog, dice, cat, dance.
  • Identify and say the first sound of an orally presented word i.e. what is the first sound you hear at the beginning of the word dog? The sound is /d/.

Phonics

Children will able to recognize the relationship between written letters and spoken sounds [five short vowels and twenty consonants]. They will be able to:

  • Identify the correct written letter on a sheet of paper from an orally presented letter sound i.e. teacher says /k/ and student can identify the letter ‘c’.
  • Name the correct letter sound when shown a letter written on a sheet a paper i.e. teacher shows the letter ‘c’ and student says the sound /k/

Children will be able to identify and recognize:

the short a, e, i, o, u and the consonants b, c, d, f, g, h, j, k, l, m, n, p, q, r, s, t, v, w, y, z in the initial position of a spoken word.

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