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  Develops an understanding of letter concepts    
  Develops an understanding of word concepts
  Develops an understanding of sentence concepts
  Matches spoken words to print    
  Recognizes own name and common environmental print    
  Demonstrates knowledge of word spaces    
  Demonstrates knowledge of directionality: left to right,
top to bottom, front to back
   
  Demonstrates ability to hold a book upright    
  Identifies the front cover and back of a book    
  Identifies the location of the title
  Identifies the location of the author’s name
  Identifies page numbers
Phonological and Phonemic Awareness
  Identifies and segments syllables in spoken words
  Recognizes and produces rhyming words
  Recognizes and produces alliteration/repeated sounds
  Identifies, matches, and isolates initial sounds
  Identifies, matches, and isolates final sounds
  Blends sounds (phonemes) to make words
  Segments words into sounds (phonemes)
  Identifies sounds within words (beginning, middle, end)
  Adds phonemes to change words
  Deletes phonemes to change words
  Replaces phonemes to change words
Alphabetic Principle
  Names and identifies letters of the alphabet
  Demonstrates knowledge of the visual forms of letters
   
  Knows the order of the alphabet
  Identifies and names all uppercase and lowercase letters
  Matches uppercase and lowercase letters    
  Names and explains the difference in oral formation of
vowels and consonants
  Uses ABC order to organize/look up information
Letter-Sound Relationships
  Understands that words are composed of letters/represent sounds
  Uses knowledge of letter-sound relationships
  Identifies and applies knowledge of consonants
  Identifies and applies knowledge of hard and soft c and g  
  Identifies and applies knowledge of short vowels
  Applies knowledge of phonograms/rimes/word families
  Identifies and applies knowledge of final e in CVCe words  
  Identifies and applies knowledge of y (consonant sound, vowel sound)
  Identifies and applies knowledge of vowel digraphs (long vowel sounds)  
  Applies knowledge of r-controlled vowel combinations (ar, er, ir, or, ur)    
  Applies knowledge of other vowel combinations and diphthongs    
  Identifies and applies knowledge of initial consonant blends  
  Identifies and applies knowledge of final consonant blends  
  Identifies and applies knowledge of initial consonant digraphs  
  Identifies and applies knowledge of final consonant digraphs  
 

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