•Establish eye contact with speaker

•Respond to pitch, stress and tone

•Follow simple oral directions

•Recognize sound quality (loud, soft, high, low,etc.)

•Recognize rhythmic patterns in music

•Recognize rhymes and rhythm

•Attend to presentations

•Recognize warning sounds

•Identify letter sounds (consonants)

•Listen attentively and courteously (audience behaviors)

•Identify letter sounds (consonants, vowels)

•Follow increasingly complex directions

•Listen for beginning, middle, and end of story

•Participate with guidance in dialogue with peers and adults

•Recognize aural rhyming

•Listen attentively and courteously (audience behaviors)

•Identify letter sounds (consonants, vowels,blends, digraphs)

•Follows increasingly complex directions

•Listen for and identify character, setting, and plot

•Participate in dialogue with peers and adults

•Recognize aural rhyming and syllabication

•Speak about life’s experiences

•Recite stories, nursery rhymes, poems, songs, etc.

•Participate in discussions following daily shared literature

•Demonstrate vocabulary growth

•Begin to use appropriate language structures

•Label and describe objects

•Participate in role-playing

•Use appropriate eye contact

•Demonstrate social courtesies

•Dramatize and/or retell familiar stories

•Give simple directions with guidance

•Speak audibly

•Retell experiences sequentially with guidance

•Ask questions with guidance

•Participate appropriately in conversations

•Communicate thoughts and feelings with guidance

•Use complete sentences to express wants, needs, and experiences

•Give two-step directions using position words

•Dramatize and/or retell familiar stories

•Give simple directions

•Speak audibly

•Retell experiences sequentially

•Ask questions appropriately

•Participate appropriately in conversations and /or group discussions

•Communicate thoughts and feelings

•Use complete sentences to express wants, needs, and experiences

•Give two-step directions using position words and left/right

•Exhibit an interest in and responds to oral reading

•Ask for specific stories

•Demonstrate book handling knowledge

•Understand the link between print and oral language

•Use picture clues to construct a story

•Recognize the letters of the alphabet and begins to develop sound/symbol correspondence

•Recognize own name, environmental print

•Understand that printed symbols, letters,and words have meaning

•Become aware of language patterns e.g., rhythms, rhyme, and word families

•Provide orally predictable words or suitable substitutes

•Demonstrate phonological awareness

•Choose to read independently at home and at school

•Self-correct to maintain meaning

•Read for comprehension

•Read and share own writing

•Use prior knowledge to construct meaning

•Associate sounds with letters in words for beginning, medial, and ending consonants

•Choose to read independently at home and at school

•Self-correct to maintain meaning

•Read for comprehension

•Read and share own writing

•Use prior knowledge to construct meaning

•Understand that sentences and punctuation have meaning

•Understand increasingly more complicated story structures

•Associate sounds with letters in words for blends and digraphs

•Associate sounds with letters in words for long and short vowels

•Begin to recognize parts of words

•Understand that spoken language can be written

•Recognize and print name

•Copy designs

•Illustrate a scene or theme in response to literature

•Demonstrate left-to-right progression of letters and words

•Distinguish top from bottom and follows top-to-bottom progression

•Use precommunicative or semi-phonetic spelling

•Use a pencil appropriately as a writing tool

•Form upper and lower case letters on primary print paper

•Use semi-phonetic or phonetic spelling

•Share and discuss writing

•Write with increasing legibility

•Use capital letters, periods, and spacing

•Form upper and lower case letters with increasing legibility

•Use phonetic and/or conventional spelling

•Share and discuss writing with adult and/or peers

•Edit own work with guidance