Everyday Literacy Lessons: Reading and Writing, Grade PreK

The perfect supplement to your core early reading program!

Everyday Literacy: Reading and Writing, Grade PreK helps you introduce students to the 26 letters of the alphabet while they practice important literacy skills.

The 20 weekly units in grade PreK cover:

Print Awareness:

• Understand that illustrations carry meaning
• Begin to understand the print runs from left to right and top to bottom
• Understand that reading and writing are ways to communicate thoughts
• Begin to understand that speech can be written down
• Visually discriminate between letters

Phonological Awareness:

• Begin to make letter-sound associations
• Begin to attend to the initial sound in familiar words
• Identify the initial sound of a spoken word
• Isolate the initial sound of a spoken word
• Identify words that begin with the same sound

Alphabet Knowledge

• Begin to associate letters with their names
• Begin to associate names with their shapes
• Identify uppercase and lowercase letters

Oral Language Development

• Recite short poems, rhymes, and songs
• Respond orally to simple questions
• Listen for different purposes

Writing:

• Develop fine motor skills through drawing and tracing
• Write letters or letter-like shapes to produce words or ideas
• Dictate or produce "writing" to express thoughts
• Practice letter formation
• Print uppercase and lowercase letters

Comprehension:

• Make connections using illustrations, prior knowledge, and real-life experiences
• Recognize main idea
• Recall details
• Make inferences and draw conclusions
• Identify sequence of events
• Compare and contrast
• Distinguish between real and make-believe
• Determine cause and effect
• Categorize and classify
• Make connections using illustrations