Students demonstrate significantly higher achievement when parents and educators work as partners to provide high quality education programs for all children. Dr. Cliff Wilson Superintendent Reading Kindergartners spend much of their time learning the basic reading tools. This year, your child will be introduced to the idea that every word can be spoken and has a combination of letters that represents its sound. Kindergartners learn beginning phonics. They start by learning each letter of the alphabet, upper and lower case, and at the same time learning each letter's sound.
Kindergartners learn to identify sounds at the beginning of words.
Kindergartners build a list of words they can read. Kindergartners learn the parts of a book. Kindergartners learn that a book or story has a beginning, middle and end. They learn that sentences are read from top to bottom and left to right. Kindergartners learn new words and ideas.