Kindergarten readiness Flashcards
Understand pre-k development
What are the 5 key domains of early math skills?
- Numbers and operations
- Geometry
- Patterns and algebra
- Measurement and time
- Data and probability
What are motor planning benchmarks?
- move naturally
- use body to perform tasks
What are the benchmarks for rhyming?
- know if 2 words rhyme
- find rhymes in poems and songs
- repeat rhyming words
- produce a rhyming words when given a word
What are 2 key parts of oral language?
- listening
- expressing themselves (thoughts, feelings, observations)
What are the domains of language and literacy?
- phonological awareness
- alphabet knowledge
- concepts about print
- comprehension
- oral language
- writing
What are benchmarks for writing?
- draw and share
- try writing activities
- know that stories are in print, pictures, play or dictation
- dictate labels
- write in scribbles, letter like forms
- hold a crayon properly
- use a helping hand to stabilize paper
- trace capital letters
- pick topics to write and draw pictures
- understand that writing conveys meaning
What are relationship benchmarks with adults?
- interacts easily
- asks for help
- participate in conflict resolution
What is the SMILE acronym mean?
S= social (positive experience, safety, needs are met) M= multisensory I = Instruction (engage child) L = language (routines, repeated words) E = evaluation (check for learning)
What are the key parts of geometry in early math?
- shapes
- space
- position
- shape characteristics
What are benchmarks for segmentation and syllable awareness?
- break spoken sentences into words
- count words in a sentence
- break compound words up
- break words into syllables
- count number of syllables in a word
- break words into onset and rime
What are the key parts of data and probability?
- visual representation of information
- likelihood of future events
What are the key parts of measurement and time?
- size
- comparing objects
- time of day
- before and after
What are emotional understanding benchmarks?
- name feelings experienced by self and others
- show empathy by offering comfort
What are the key parts of number and operations domain of early math?
- number sense
- properties of numbers
- quantities
What are the components of phonological awareness?
- auditory discrimination
- rhyming
- segmentation and syllable awareness
- blending
- alliteration
- phonemic awareness (isolation)
What are gross motor benchmarks?
- maintain posture
- walk, run
- hop, skip
- jump
- climb stairs
What are some everyday ways to help learn early math?
- teach vocab for communicating math skills
- Ask What are you making?
- How many do you need?
- What did you do here?
- What will you do next?
What are the movement perception benchmarks?
- tolerate motion in activities
- be aware of body, other people, balance
What are key parts of the concept of print?
- parts of a book
- how to hold a book
- turn pages
- read top to bottom, left to right
What are benchmarks for reading comprehension?
- have a favorite book
- ID best parts of a story
- enjoy books and reading activities
- demonstrate interest in read aloud time
- talks about meaning of story
What are key parts of comprehension?
- meaning of spoken language
- meaning of reading
What are the benchmarks for auditory discrimination?
- know speech vs. environmental sound
- ID similar and different sounds
- know if 2 words are same or different
- indicate if a certain word is heard or not
- know what makes a certain sound
What is an easy way to express numbers and operations?
I know how many
What are benchmarks for parts of a story?
- ID main character
- ID setting
- ID problem and solution
- ID emotions in story
- ID real and not real parts of the story
What are key parts of phonological awareness?
- hear and manipulate parts of language
What are the visual perception benchmarks?
- notice and attach meaning to visual information
What are benchmarks for phonemic awareness?
- ID first sound in a spoken word
- ID ending sound in a spoken word
What are benchmarks for listening comprehension?
- listening for enjoyment
- listening for getting information (list facts)
- listening to do a task
- listening to learn what happened
- listening to join a conversation
What are the key parts of patterns and algebra in early math?
- symbols
- letters
- patterns
What are benchmarks for blending?
- build spoken words into a sentence
- create a compound word from 2 familiar words
- blend syllables into a complete word
- blend onsets and rimes into complete words
What are the 2 benchmarks for making connections?
- explain how a story connects to personal experience
- connect 2 stories
What are visual motor control benchmarks?
- look at hands and use visual cues for reaching and moving objects
What are benchmarks for predicting?
- make a prediction using pictures
- make a prediction using prior knowledge
What are key parts of alphabet knowledge?
- know the letters of the alphabet
- recognize letters in print
What are benchmarks for oral expression?
- communicate thoughts and feelings with words
- share opinions
- talk about experiences and observations
- speak in complete sentences
- use words to describe an object or person
- know if a sentence makes sense
- tell stories, describe everyday routines and events
What are relationship with peer benchmarks?
- cooperates with children
- participates in imaginary and dramatic play
- takes turns with peers
- works with others to solve problems
What are fine motor benchmarks?
- same hand for crayons, eating, brushing, etc
- use fingers to open and close fasteners, hold crayons, beads
- move an object in one hand to position it foruse
- use index finger to trace letters on a card or in the air
- hold up fingers to show age or number
What are self concept benchmarks?
- self-care skills (bathroom, dressing, hygiene)
- name body parts
- describe changes in body
- imitate other’s body movements
What are number and operation benchmarks?
- one to one correspondence
- cardinality
- subitizing
- ordinality
- more and fewer
- ID written numbers
- connect numbers to quantity
- write numerals
- count and label numerals
- combine to make a set of 10
- take object away from a set and count
- share evenly with a group
- divide whole in half
What are bilateral motor coordination benchmarks?
- helping hand to stabilize paper
- use both sides of body in activities (drumming, dancing)
What are the touch perception benchmarks?
- handle pla and art materials
- perceive shape, size, ID by using touch
What are personal initiative benchmarks?
- desire for independence
- show interest in activities
- be in front of a group with support
What are geometry benchmarks?
- in and out positions
- before and after positions
- top, middle, bottom
- above, below, over and under
- left and right
- size
- shape
- describe circles, rectangles, squares, triangles
- shapes in the real world
- 3 dimensional shapes
What are the key parts of writing?
- speech to written words understanding
What are benchmarks for concepts of print?
- know print from pictures
- understand print can be read and has a meaning
- find print
- hold book right side up
- open book to title page
- point to cover, front and back, pages, spine
- point to title, author, illustrator
- know what authors, illustrators do
- know what a title is
- imitate real reading
- turn pages one at a time, front to back
- follow print from to to bottom, left to right
- point to print moving left to right
- return sweep
- know sentence, word, letter
- recognize name in print
- recognize names of family and friends in print
- know signs and symbol meaning
What are benchmarks for alliteration?
- ID repeated initial sounds in words and sentences
- name words that start with the same sound
What are self-regulation benchmarks?
- caregiver separation
- use negotiation and cooperation to manage emotions
- respond to difficulty without hurting self or others
- handle transitions
- understand and follow classroom rules
- treat property with respect
What are benchmarks for alphabet knowledge?
- know letters, pictures, symbols
- know letters in own name
- position letters right side up
- name all letters
- match capital and lowercase letters
- sings and says ABCs in order
What are 5 strategies to help teach a concept?
- Act it Out
- Use objects (manipulative)
- guess and check (trial and error)
- Look for a pattern
- Draw a picture
What are body awareness benchmarks?
- know where is body in relation to space
- use proper grading of force
- reach across midline to get an object
What are benchmarks for oral language?
- repeat teacher
- follow directions
- learn new words linked to content
- Answer simple questions (who? What? when? where?)
- use conversational tone, volume, inflection
What are benchmarks for sequencing?
- ID beginning, middle and end
- order events using pictures
- retell with pictures
- re-enact a story
One of the benchmarks for rhyming is knowing if 2 _______ rhyme.
- know if 2 words rhyme
One of the benchmarks of rhyming is finding rhymes in _______ and _________.
- find rhymes in poems and songs
One of the benchmarks of rhyming is repeating _________ words.
- repeat rhyming words
One of the benchmarks of rhyming is __________ a rhyming word when given a _________.
- produce a rhyming words when given a word
The key parts of patterns and algebra in early math are ______, letters, and patterns.
- symbols
The key parts of patterns and algebra in early math are symbols, ________, and patterns.
- letters
The key parts of patterns and algebra in early math are symbols, letters and ________.
- patterns
One motor planning benchmark is to move _________.
- move naturally
One motor planning benchmark is to use your body to ________ ________.
- use body to perform tasks
What are 5 things to do everyday?
- Read books
- Go out in the real world
- Sensory play
- Have letter fun
- Count and discuss numbers
What are the major domains of preschool learning?
- Writing
- Auditory processing
- Visual discrimination
- Phonological awareness
- Social emotional skills
- Reading
- Comprehension
- Math and number sense
- Sensory motor
What are the precursors to sounding out a word?
- concepts of print
- story comprehension
- letter knowledge
- interest in reading
What are social emotional domains?
- self-concept
- self-regulation
- personal initiative
- emotional understanding
- relationships with adults
- relationships with peers
What is phonological awareness?
Understanding sounds in words
What does phonological awareness include?
Understanding words
Rhyming
Syllables
Phonemic awareness
What is phonemic awareness?
Awareness of one component of phonological awareness
What does phonemic awareness include?
blending
Segmenting
Manipulating sounds
What are syllables?
Part of a word with one vowel sound
What are phonemes?
Individual sounds with in a word
