Skills to Practice

  • Skills to Practice


             Reading

    • Locate title, table of contents
    • Produce rhyming words
    • Identify initial and final sounds of a word
    • Identify medial sounds
    • Produce the sounds associated with all individual letters
    • Read and write word families
    • Read common sight words- is, the, I, like, said, etc.
    • Recognize and identify short and long vowel sounds
    • Predict what might happen in a story, etc.
    • Sequence the events of a story
    • Retell a story
    • Use picture clues
    • Use a glossary
    • Report an emergency- name, address, phone number, names of parents or guardians

       Writing

    • Write a story title
    • Write a story focusing on one topic
    • Use capital "I"
    • Start sentences with a capital letter
    • End a sentence with proper punctuation
    • Use correct penmanship
    • Brainstorm, rough draft, revise, assisted editing, final copy
    • Spell high-frequency words correctly while writing

        Math

    • Tell time to the hour and half-hour
    • Order events
    • Tell which events are certain to happen, more likely to happen, less likely to happen or are impossible
    • Calendar
    • Memorize addition facts to 20
    • Memorize subtraction facts from 20
    • Memorize doubles to 10+10
    • Doubles +1
    • Memorize fact families- 2,3,5  (2+3=5, 3+2=5, 5-2=3, 5-3=2)
    • Solve simple equations
    • Fill in the missing addend
    • Write a number sentence to match a picture
    • Choose the correct operation (+, -) for a story problem
    • Show ones and tens
    • Double digit addition and subtraction problems without trading
    • Put numbers in sequence up to 100
    • Count to 100 by 1's, 2's, 5's, 10's
    • Count backwards from 20
    • Count up, count back,- Start with any number.  Now count on from that number or count backwards from that number.
    • Count money using pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters
    • Estimate
    • Numbers before, after, between
    • 1 more, 1 less
    • Odd and even
    • Ordinal number to 20th
    • Patterns- ABA, ABCABC, ABBABBA, AABBAABB, etc.
    • Recognize and draw plane shapes- rectangle, square, circle, oval, rhombus, triangle, hexagon
    • Identify the number of vertices (corners) and sides of a shape
    • Recognize same size, same shape
    • Flip, turn, slide shapes
    • Draw the line of symmetry
    • 3 dimensional shapes (solid shapes)- cone, cylinder, rectangular prism, cube, sphere
    • Know the plane shapes that are used for each 3 dimensional solid shape
    • Find shapes all around us
    • Least or fewer and greatest or most
    • Less than, greater than
    • Graphing
    • Fractions- 1/2, 1/3, 1/4
    • Inches, feet, centimeters
    • Choose a measuring tool