wordsmart

  • learning objectives for prekindergarteners
  • listening

language

  • Responds appropriately to complex statements, questions, vocabulary, and stories
  • Follows detailed, instructional, multi-step directions
  • speaking

using language

  • Incorporates new, less familiar or technical words in everyday conversations
  • Pronounces multisyllabic or unusual words correctly
  • Uses long, complex sentences and follows most grammatical rules
  • Tells elaborate stories that refer to other times and places

conversation

  • Initiates and participates in complex, lengthy conversations (five or more exchanges)
  • Uses acceptable language and social rules while communicating with others
  • prereading

phonetics

  • Generates a group of rhyming words when given a word
  • Isolates and identifies the beginning sound of a word
  • Segments words into syllables

letters

  • Recognizes most letters, especially those in own name
  • Is able to match most letters with their sound.

print

  • Uses various types of books for their intended purposes
  • Understands that written words represent spoken language

narrative

  • Uses prior knowledge, story title, and pictures to make predictions about story content
  • Retells a familiar story in proper sequence, including major events and characters
  • Can answer detailed questions about a story
  • prewriting

writing

  • Is able to write own name
  • Writes using pictures/symbols/letters and early invented spelling