Concept List for Reading for Kindergarten

This list contains the foundational concepts for teaching reading to kindergarten students.

Foundation Concepts (1-15)

1. Spoken Language
2. Listening Skills
3. Sounds in Environment
4. Speech Sounds
5. Words
6. Phoneme
7. Print Awareness
8. Book Handling
9. Reading Direction
10. One-to-One Correspondence
11. Word Boundaries
12. Sentence
13. Alphabet
14. Letter
15. Letter Name

Letter Recognition - Uppercase (16-41)

1. Uppercase A
2. Uppercase B
3. Uppercase C
4. Uppercase D
5. Uppercase E
6. Uppercase F
7. Uppercase G
8. Uppercase H
9. Uppercase I
10. Uppercase J
11. Uppercase K
12. Uppercase L
13. Uppercase M
14. Uppercase N
15. Uppercase O
16. Uppercase P
17. Uppercase Q
18. Uppercase R
19. Uppercase S
20. Uppercase T
21. Uppercase U
22. Uppercase V
23. Uppercase W
24. Uppercase X
25. Uppercase Y
26. Uppercase Z

Letter Recognition - Lowercase (42-67)

1. Lowercase a
2. Lowercase b
3. Lowercase c
4. Lowercase d
5. Lowercase e
6. Lowercase f
7. Lowercase g
8. Lowercase h
9. Lowercase i
10. Lowercase j
11. Lowercase k
12. Lowercase l
13. Lowercase m
14. Lowercase n
15. Lowercase o
16. Lowercase p
17. Lowercase q
18. Lowercase r
19. Lowercase s
20. Lowercase t
21. Lowercase u
22. Lowercase v
23. Lowercase w
24. Lowercase x
25. Lowercase y
26. Lowercase z

Phonemic Awareness Skills (68-80)

1. Phonemic Awareness
2. Initial Sound
3. Final Sound
4. Medial Sound
5. Sound Isolation
6. Sound Segmentation
7. Sound Counting
8. Rhyming Words
9. Rhyme Recognition
10. Syllable
11. Syllable Clapping
12. Word Families
13. Onset and Rime

Consonant Sounds (81-101)

1. Consonant
2. Consonant Sound
3. Sound of B
4. Sound of C
5. Sound of D
6. Sound of F
7. Sound of G
8. Sound of H
9. Sound of J
10. Sound of K
11. Sound of L
12. Sound of M
13. Sound of N
14. Sound of P
15. Sound of Q
16. Sound of R
17. Sound of S
18. Sound of T
19. Sound of V
20. Sound of W
21. Sound of X
22. Sound of Y
23. Sound of Z

Vowel Sounds (104-115)

1. Vowel
2. Vowel Letter
3. Short Vowel Sound
4. Short A Sound
5. Short E Sound
6. Short I Sound
7. Short O Sound
8. Short U Sound
9. Long Vowel Sound
10. Long A Sound
11. Long E Sound
12. Long I Sound
13. Long O Sound
14. Long U Sound

Letter-Sound Correspondence (118-125)

1. Letter-Sound Link
2. Sound-Symbol Match
3. Consonant-Sound Match
4. Vowel-Sound Match
5. Letter Formation
6. Letter Tracing
7. Letter Writing
8. Kinesthetic Learning

Blending Skills (126-140)

1. Sound Blending
2. Oral Blending
3. Continuous Blending
4. VC Word Pattern
5. CVC Word Pattern
6. Blending VC Words
7. Blending CVC Words
8. Word Building
9. Sound Stretching
10. Connected Sounds
11. Smooth Blending
12. Word Reading
13. Decoding
14. Sounding Out
15. Reading Accuracy

Sight Words (141-160)

1. Sight Word
2. High-Frequency Word
3. Sight Word: the
4. Sight Word: a
5. Sight Word: is
6. Sight Word: it
7. Sight Word: in
8. Sight Word: to
9. Sight Word: and
10. Sight Word: I
11. Sight Word: can
12. Sight Word: we
13. Sight Word: see
14. Sight Word: my
15. Sight Word: like
16. Sight Word: go
17. Sight Word: he
18. Sight Word: she
19. Sight Word: you
20. Sight Word: are

Practice and Assessment (161-175)

1. Repetition
2. Practice
3. Mastery
4. Assessment
5. Self-Correction
6. Error Detection
7. Fluency
8. Automaticity
9. Word Recognition Speed
10. Accuracy Check
11. Progress Monitoring
12. Formative Assessment
13. Learning Games
14. Multisensory Learning
15. Gesture-Based Learning

Application Skills (176-185)

1. Word Creation
2. Nonsense Words
3. Real vs Nonsense Words
4. Word Discrimination
5. Sound Manipulation
6. Initial Sound Change
7. Final Sound Change
8. Vowel Substitution
9. Word Family Building
10. Pattern Recognition

Capstone Skills (186-195)

1. Independent Reading
2. Simple Text Reading
3. Word Bank
4. Personal Word List
5. Reading Confidence
6. Reading Motivation
7. Story Awareness
8. Reading for Meaning
9. Print to Speech
10. Emergent Reader

Total: 195 Concepts