You are on page 1of 2

Reading Development for 4-8 Year Olds

1. Skill Focus - Listening to Stories and Answering Questions 2. Skill Focus - Retell a Story 3. Skill Focus - Letter-Sound Correspondence 4. Skill Focus - Sight Words 5. Skill Focus - Reading (pre-reading) 6. Skill Focus - Writing 7. Skill Focus - Following Directions 8. Skill Focus - Language Development

4-5 Year Olds Should Be Able To:

1. Pay attention to a short story and answers simple questions about them. 2. Tell stories that stick to topic. 3. Name some letters and numbers. 4. Recognize common environmental signs 5. Sit and listen to books 6. Write some letters, grasp a pencil correctly, pre-writing lines 7. Follows basic 2 part directions (this and that) 8. Work on forming and explaining categories (fruits, furniture, shapes).Sort items into categories.

5-6 Year Olds Should Be Able To:

1. Listen to and understand age-appropriate stories read aloud 2. Retell a story or talk about an event 3. Understand that letters represent speech sounds and match sounds to letters; Identify upper- and lowercase letters 4. Recognize some words by sight 5. Know how a book works (e.g., read from left to right and top to bottom in English) 6. Print own first and last name; Draw a picture that tells a story and label and write about the picture; Write upper- and lowercase letters 7. Follow 1-2 simple directions in a sequence 8. Identify words that rhyme (e.g., cat and hat)

Created by Lauren Barnett, MA, CCC-SLP

iHeartSpeech.com

Reading Development for 4-8 Year Olds


1. Skill Focus - Listening to Stories and Answering Questions 2. Skill Focus - Retell a Story 3. Skill Focus - Letter-Sound Correspondence 4. Skill Focus - Sight Words 5. Skill Focus - Reading (pre-reading) 6. Skill Focus - Writing 7. Skill Focus - Following Directions 8. Skill Focus - Language Development

6-7 Year Olds Should Be Able To:

1. Remember information; Understand what is read 2. Tell and retell stories and events in a logical order 3. Identify letters, words, and sentences, Sound out words when reading 4. Have a sight vocabulary of 100 common words 5. Blend separate sounds to form words, Match spoken words with print, Read grade-level material fluently 6. Express ideas through writing; Spell frequently used words correctly; Begin each sentence with capital letters and use ending punctuation; Write a variety of stories, journal entries, or letters/notes 7.Follow 2-3 step directions in a sequence 8. Give directions

7-8 Year Olds Should Be Able To:

1. Correctly answer questions about a grade-level story 2. Explain key elements of a story (e.g., main idea, main characters, plot); Read, paraphrase/retell a story in a sequence 3. Have fully mastered phonics/sound awareness; Associate speech sounds, syllables, words, and phrases with their written forms 4. Recognize many words by sight 5. Read grade-level stories, poetry, or dramatic text silently and aloud with fluency; Read spontaneously 6. Write legibly; Use a variety of sentence types in writing essays, poetry, or short stories (fiction and nonfiction); Use basic punctuation and capitalization appropriately 7. Follow 3-4 oral directions in a sequence 8. Understand direction words (location, space & time words)
Created by Lauren Barnett, MA, CCC-SLP iHeartSpeech.com

You might also like