Book Concepts/Reading Concepts
Punctuation Marks
Directionality Concepts
Letter & Word Concepts
Phonological Awareness
100

This person's job is to write the words of the story.

Author

100

I use this punctuation mark to tell a thought or idea.

Period or Full stop .

100

This is the direction in which you read in English.

Left to right

100

B is the ______ letter in the word "bat".

first

100

These distinct units of sound are identified with backslashes (Ex. /f/, /h/, /s/).

Phonemes

200

This person's job is to draw the pictures of the story to match the words. 

Illustrator

200

When I use this punctuation my inflection changes, and my voice goes up at the end.

Question Mark ?

200

This concept shows the first word of where you start reading.

Beginning of the text

200

X is the _____ letter in the word "fox"

last

200

These type of words have the same ending sound.

Rhyming words

300

This part of the book holds the book and pages together.

The Spine

300

When I am excited or showing extreme emotion, I use this punctuation mark.

Exclamation point !

300

When I move from the end of a sentence to the beginning of a sentence on the next line.

Return Sweep

300

_______ ________ are the shorter, smaller versions of letters. Ex. m, s, t.

Lowercase letters

300

What is the following skill being applied in the example below.

bat = /b/ /a/ /t/

Segmenting

400

Alya points to each word as she reads. What skill is she practicing?

1 to 1 matching

400

I use this punctuation mark to show someone is speaking within the story. 

Quotation Marks " "

400

Khalifa is still struggling to understand where to start reading a story, and how to follow along in a text and move to the next line. Which concepts should you continue to focus on with him?

Directionality Concept

400

This type of letter is used to show the name of a person, place, or thing. It is also the first type of letter at the beginning of a sentence. 

Capital letter

400

The written letters that represent the sounds (phonemes) are called ________.

Graphemes

500

Ahmed is having difficulties identifying the front cover and the back cover. Which CAP skill should continue to be supported?

Book Concepts

500

I use this punctuation mark to show a pause between parts of a sentence or separating items in a list.

Comma ,

500

What are the 3 subcategories identified in directionality concepts?

Beginning of text

Left to right

Return sweep

500
Sheikha is having difficulty identifying the names of letters in words and in the alphabet. What skill should you continue to help her develop?

Letter Identification

500

This level of phonological awareness includes blending and segmenting, phoneme deletion, manipulating sounds. 

Phonemic Awareness