ReadTime

One Suggested Reading Curriculum Timeline

(from “Every Child A Reader” - California Teaching Initiative)

1. ORAL LANGUAGE, LISTENING, AND SPEAKING
Strand	Preschool	Kindergarten	First Grade - Fall	First Grade - Spring	Second and Third Grades	Fourth Through Eighth Grades
Listening and Discussion	Listens to a variety of texts, both fiction and nonfiction Discusses a variety of texts, both fiction and nonfiction Listens to directions
Oral Language	Storytelling Retelling Rhyme and songs
		Reads aloud
			Explanations Poetry Group discussions Plays Recitations Expressive language Choral reading Reader's theater
					Reports Public speaking and debate
2. AWARENESS OF SOUND, SYMBOL, AND STRUCTURE
Strand	Preschool	Kindergarten	First Grade - Fall	First Grade - Spring	Second and Third Grades	Fourth Through Eighth Grades
Phonemic Awareness	Hears separate words Recognizes rhyming words
		Analogies (e.g., "cat to fat")	More complex analogies
		Hears syllables Recognizes word family patterns Matches sounds of words
		Blends phonemes		More complex segmenting, blending, and transposition
			Hears and segments initial and final phonemes	Hears and segments initial, final, and medial phonemes
Print Awareness	Reading-like behaviors Recognizes signs and print in the environment Scribbles	Recognizes own name Handles books Has concept of letter/word directionality Writes some letters/words
		Understands initial concepts about print	Understands more complex concepts about print
Syntactic Awareness	Uses oral language structure	Understands how words, phrases, sentences work			Formal language structure of stories, poems, books, newpapers, etc.
		Begins to use book language	Understands and extends book language
			Reads punctuation Understands sentence and story structure
			Paragraphing
			Beginning grammar	More complex grammar
3. SKILLS INTEGRATION
Strand	Preschool	Kindergarten	First Grade - Fall	First Grade - Spring	Second and Third Grades	Fourth Through Eighth Grades
Letter Recognition	Exposure to letter names and alphabet	Knows most letter names and shapes	Knows all letter names and shapes
Recognizing High-Frequency Words (Irregular and Regular)		Knows some sight words	Evidences self-correction and self-monitoring
			Automatically recognizes 50 high-frequency words		Recognizes 150 high-frequency words	Recognizes most high-frequency words
Word Families, Word Patterns, Word Play		Attention to word beginnings and endings (e.g., "C and -at," "M and -at")	Recognizes basic word families and patterns	Recognizes most primary word families and patterns
Phonics, Decoding, Word Attack		Knows some letter/sound correspondences	Basic letter/sound correspondences	Complex letter/sound correspondences	Remaining letter/sound correspondences
		Recognizes own name	Knows decoding strategies	Continued development of decoding ability
			Sounds out words Compares similar words Breaks words into smaller words
		Uses syllabication
			Looks for word parts/affixes
			Uses graphophonemic, semantic, and syntactic cues
4. READING AND COMPREHENSION STRATEGIES
Strand	Preschool	Kindergarten	First Grade - Fall	First Grade - Spring	Second and Third Grades	Fourth Through Eighth Grades
Reading to, with, and by Children	Stories and nursery rhymes are read to children	Stories and informational texts are read to children
		Reads specifically designed books and other appropriate materials	Individual or small group reading of simple texts	Reads narrative and information texts as the primary learning strategy
			Reads 100 to 200 little books		Reads 25 to 35 grade-appropriate books each year from accepted fiction and nonfiction lists
				Reads and discusses stories, magazines, and informational texts from anthologies and reading series	Has in-depth discussions, uses a variety of genres, and reads in subject-matter areas
		Shared reading
		Guided reading
		Independent reading
	Reads at home Uses the library
			Silent, sustained reading
Comprehension Strategies	Uses picture books and simple story books in reading for meaning		Reads for meaning	Organized discussion about commonly read stories
			Beginning comprehension strategies, predicting, and connecting to what is known		Advanced strategic reading
			Summarizing and visualizing		Advanced summarizing and visualizing
Fluency		Reads familiar materials Oral reading
			Uses expression and phrasing
Recreational Reading	Fiction (e.g., fairy tales, poetry, stories)
		Different genres (e.g., poetry)
	Nonfiction (e.g., true stories, nature stories, career stories) Multicultural literature
Content-Area Reading		Math reading (e.g., counting books) Social studies reading		All content fields (e.g., math, social studies, science)
			Reads newspapers and magazines
				Reflective/transformative literature and critical responses
					Uses reference materials
5. WRITING, VOCABULARY, AND SPELLING
Strand	Preschool	Kindergarten	First Grade - Fall	First Grade - Spring	Second and Third Grades	Fourth Through Eighth Grades
Writing, Encoding	Pretend writing Makes signs Scribbles	Writes words (temporary spelling) Writes own name Group-dictated stories	Uses basic mechanics (e.g., punctuation, capitalization)	Uses standard conventions of writing
			Uses beginning grammar	Uses more complex grammar
				Writes narratives, expository texts (e.g., organizing information for a report)	Writes more complex narratives, reports, description
		Letter formation			Composition (e.g., sentence structure and paragraph)
			Handwriting
		Composes a variety of stories		Composes a variety of texts
		Hears and records sounds in words
Vocabulary	Gains word meaning from oral discussion and explanation
		Learns some new words from reading and writing			Learns most new words from reading
		Builds simple words with magnetic letters and other manipulatives	Constructs words from given parts	Constructs more complex word structures	Learns terms from context Learns word roots and affixes Uses synonyms and antonyms
Spelling	Makes signs	Temporary spelling	Transitions to conventional spelling	Corrects spelling in final drafts	Individualized spelling program based on words in reading and writing Tricky spelling words Spelling lists organized by sound theme and common parts
			Spells words in reading lessons
				Spells sound families and high-frequency words
				Works on individualized problem words