The All About Reading Pre-reading program is designed for preschoolers and kindergarteners. Your student will enjoy the special games, crafts, and storytime read-alouds, and you will love the way your student effortlessly learns essential pre-reading skills.
Your student will learn five very important pre-reading skills: Print Awareness, Phonological Awareness, Letter Knowledge, Listening Comprehension, and Motivation to Read. These skills lay the foundation for learning to read. Below is a sampling in each area.
Letter Knowledge
Learn to recognize capital letters
Learn to recognize lowercase letters
Learn to recite the alphabet song
Listening Comprehension
Answer simple questions about a story
Learn to retell a story in his own words
Ask pertinent questions about a story
Phonological Awareness
Learn to blend sounds orally to make a word
Learn to clap syllables
Learn rhyming and word boundaries
Identify the beginning and ending sounds in a word
Print Awareness
Understand that the words on the page can be read
Understand that books are read from cover to back, and sentences are read from left to right
