Is Your Child on the Right Road to Reading?

If your child has reached these milestones by the end of kindergarten, then your child is off to a running start in reading:

*Knows that spoken words come apart and that letters represent these sounds

*Easily names the letters of the alphabet, both uppercase and lowercase

*Writes the letters of the alphabet

*Is learning about letter-sound matches

*Is beginning to decode simple words

*Is beginning to recognize sight words

*Uses invented spellings

*Knows about print conventions - reading from left to right, from the top to bottom of the page

*Has a growing vocabulary

*Looks forward to reading