Georgia

LD 1 Children will develop skills in listening for the purpose of comprehension

• LD 1 a Listens to and follows spoken directions

• LD 1 b Responds to questions

• LD 1 c Listens to recordings and shows understanding through body language or by interacting appropriately.

• LD 1 d Listens to stories read aloud and shows understanding through body language or by interacting appropriately

• LD 1 e Begins to distinguish fact from fiction in a read aloud text

  • Which could happen in real life? (P-J.1)

• LD 1 f Makes predictions from pictures and titles

  • What will happen next? (P-K.2)

• LD 1 g Becomes increasingly familiar with the structure of stories (characters, events, plot, resolution of story)

  • Which feeling matches the picture? (P-K.1)
  • What will happen next? (P-K.2)

LD 2 Children will learn to discriminate the sounds of language (phonological awareness)

• LD 2 a Differentiates sounds that are the same and different

  • Which two words have the same ending? (P-D.2)
  • Choose the picture that rhymes with the word (P-D.3)
  • Blend each sound in a word together (P-E.2)
  • Identify the first sound in a word (P-E.3)
  • Which two words end with the same sound? (P-F.4)
  • Choose the letter that matches the consonant sound: review (P-F.5)
  • Find the short a word (P-G.1)
  • Find the short e word (P-G.2)
  • Find the short i word (P-G.3)
  • Find the short o word (P-G.4)
  • Find the short u word (P-G.5)

• LD 2 b Repeats rhymes, poems and finger plays

  • Choose the picture that rhymes with the word (P-D.3)

• LD 2 c Recognizes the same beginning sounds in different words (alliteration)

  • Identify the first sound in a word (P-E.3)
  • Which two words start with the same sound? (P-F.1)
  • Find the word that begins with a given sound (P-F.2)

• LD 2 d Shows growing ability to hear and discriminate separate syllables in words

  • How many syllables does the word have? (K-E.1)
  • Which word has more syllables? (K-E.2)
  • Sort by the number of syllables (K-E.3)

• LD 2 e Creates and invents words by substituting one sound for another

  • Blend each sound in a word together (P-E.2)
  • Put the sounds in order (P-E.4)

LD 3 Children will develop an understanding of new vocabulary introduced in conversations, activities, stories or books

• LD 3 a Increases vocabulary through everyday communication

  • Choose the two sight words that are the same (P-H.1)
  • Read sight words: review sets 1–10 (P-H.15)
  • Use color words (P-L.1)
  • Use number words: one to five (P-L.2)
  • Use number words: six to ten (P-L.3)
  • Use number words: one to ten (P-L.4)
  • Compare pictures using adjectives (P-O.1)
  • Inside and outside (P-P.1)
  • Above and below (P-P.2)
  • Next to and beside (P-P.3)
  • Match antonyms to pictures (P-Q.1)
  • Sort objects into categories (P-R.1)
  • Which one is not like the others? (P-R.2)

• LD 3 b Uses new vocabulary words correctly within the context of play or other classroom experiences

  • Inside and outside (P-P.1)
  • Above and below (P-P.2)
  • Next to and beside (P-P.3)
  • Match antonyms to pictures (P-Q.1)
  • Sort objects into categories (P-R.1)
  • Which one is not like the others? (P-R.2)

• LD 3 c Connects new vocabulary with prior educational experiences

LD 4 Children will develop and expand expressive language skills (speaking)

• LD 4 a Uses language for a variety of purposes

• LD 4 b Engages in conversations with adults and children

• LD 4 c Uses complete sentences of increasing length in conversation

  • Find the complete sentence (K-JJ.3)

• LD 4 d Uses language to pretend or create

LD 5 Children will begin to develop age-appropriate strategies that will assist in reading

• LD 5 a Demonstrates an interest in books or stories

• LD 5 b Discusses books or stories read aloud

• LD 5 c Exhibits book-handling skills

  • Identify book parts and features (P-I.1)

• LD 5 d Associates symbols with objects, concepts and functions

  • Use color words (P-L.1)
  • Use number words: one to five (P-L.2)
  • Use number words: six to ten (P-L.3)
  • Use number words: one to ten (P-L.4)
  • Choose the singular or plural noun that matches the picture (P-M.1)
  • Find the picture that matches the action verb (P-N.1)
  • Compare pictures using adjectives (P-O.1)
  • Match antonyms to pictures (P-Q.1)
  • Sort objects into categories (P-R.1)
  • Which one is not like the others? (P-R.2)

• LD 5 e Recognizes that print represents spoken words

  • Choose the two words that are the same (P-C.1)
  • Find a word in a sentence (P-C.3)

• LD 5 f Dramatizes, tells and retells poems and stories

• LD 5 g Identifies some individual letters of the alphabet

  • Find the letter in the alphabet: uppercase (P-A.1)
  • Find the letter in the alphabet: lowercase (P-A.2)
  • Choose the letter that you hear: uppercase (P-A.3)
  • Choose the letter that you hear: lowercase (P-A.4)
  • Frequently confused letters: find the letter (P-A.5)
  • Frequently confused letters: find all the letters (P-A.6)

• LD 5 h Shares books and engages in pretend-reading with other children

• LD 5 i Recognizes books as a source of information

• LD 5 j Connects information and events in books to real-life experiences

• LD 5 k Participates in oral reading activities

• LD 5 l Recognizes that sentences are composed of separate words

  • Choose the sentence that is spaced correctly (P-C.2)
  • Find a word in a sentence (P-C.3)

• LD 5 m Uses pictures or symbols to identify concepts

  • Which feeling matches the picture? (P-K.1)
  • What will happen next? (P-K.2)
  • Use color words (P-L.1)
  • Use number words: one to five (P-L.2)
  • Use number words: six to ten (P-L.3)
  • Use number words: one to ten (P-L.4)
  • Choose the singular or plural noun that matches the picture (P-M.1)
  • Find the picture that matches the action verb (P-N.1)
  • Compare pictures using adjectives (P-O.1)
  • Inside and outside (P-P.1)
  • Above and below (P-P.2)
  • Next to and beside (P-P.3)
  • Match antonyms to pictures (P-Q.1)
  • Sort objects into categories (P-R.1)

LD 6 Children will begin to develop age-appropriate writing skills

• LD 6 a Experiments with a variety of writing tools, materials and surfaces

• LD 6 b Uses scribbles, shapes, pictures and letters, or other forms of writing

  • Stages of writing:

• LD 6 c Understands that print is used to communicate ideas and information (writing for a purpose)

• LD 6 d Begins to dictate words, phrases, and sentences to an adult recording on paper

• LD 6 e Uses left-to-right patterns