General Readiness

• Differentiating letters
• Differentiating shapes
• Matching numbers and objects
• Completing sequences
• Recognizing position words
• Identifying word boundaries
• Comparing word length (written)
• Differentiating word pairs
• Differentiating words from letters

Graphophonemic Knowledge

• Using alphabetical order
• Matching upper- and lowercase letters
• Naming letters
• Recognizing letter sounds
• Recognizing alphabetic sequence

Structural Analysis

• Identifying compound words
• Building words
• Finding words

Vocabulary

• Recognizing antonyms
• Matching words and pictures
• Recognizing synonyms

Phonemic Awareness

• Blending phonemes
• Blending word parts
• Identifying rhyming words
• Identifying missing sounds
• Discriminating beginning and ending sounds
• Comparing word length (oral)

Phonics

• Matching and recognizing long vowel sounds
• Matching and recognizing short vowel sounds
• Identifying beginning consonant sounds
• Identifying ending consonant sounds
• Replacing beginning and ending consonants
• Replacing vowels
• Identifying medial short vowels
• Identifying medial long vowels
• Matching sounds within word families
• Identifying consonant blends
• Identifying consonant digraphs
• Substituting consonant sounds

Comprehension

• Reading and understanding words
• Reading and completing sentences
• Reading and understanding paragraphs