Kindergarten Education

Prewriting strokes are the basic lines, curves, and shapes that young children draw before they learn to form letters, and

Book handling skills are the everyday habits children use when they hold, open, turn, and care for a book, and

Print concepts instruction teaches young children how written language works before they can read words on their own. It covers

Comprehension through conversation is the practice of building a child’s understanding of a text or experience by talking about it

Sight word development is the process by which young readers learn to recognize common words instantly, without sounding them out.

Letter sound correspondence is the link between a written letter and the sound it usually represents in speech, and it

Letter recognition activities are planned, playful tasks that help young children identify letters by sight, name them, and begin to

Phonics instruction in kindergarten teaches children how letters connect to the sounds of spoken language, giving them a systematic way

Phonemic awareness activities are short, playful exercises that help children notice and manipulate the individual sounds in spoken words. Before

Emergent literacy skills are the early abilities young children build before they can read and write conventionally. These include interest