Listening

• Distinguishes sounds in the enviornment
• Responds to simple directions, commands and questions
• Acquires new vocabulary words
• Listens and responds to oral readings

Speaking

• Uses language to satisfy personal needs
• Indicates conversations with teachers and peers
• Describes objects and pictures
• Role-Play in variety of situations
• Retells stories and repeats songs
• Is aware of appropriate speaking behavior and voice volume
• Asks relevant questions in a variety of situations

Problem Solving

• Exploration in patterns
• Sorts and classifies objects
• Counts with skill and understanding
• Compares goups
• Demonstrates understanding of place value

Sight and Sound Awareness

• Identifies rhyming words
• Recognizes letter names
• Matches capital and lower carse letters
• Matches repeated words in stories
• Discriminates between beginning sounds
• Associates beginning sounds with corresponding consonant

Reading

• Recognizes enviornmental print
• Recognizs own name in print
• Enjoys listening to stories
• Participates in shared reading activities
• Voluntarily looks at books
• Handles a book correctly
• Recalls details from familiar stories
• Retells stories in logical order
• Uses pictures to gain meaning from books
• Responds to stories through art and drama
• Recognizes that print conveys meaning
• Recognizes common important words in stories