• Identify all 26 upper case letters
• Identify all 26 lower case letters
• Identify all letter sounds
• Read the 50 kindergarten sight words (see list below)
• Sound out beginning words
• Read emerging readers (at least a DRA level of 3/4 or fountas/pinnell level of C)
• Identify rhyming words
• Write first and last name appropriately (using upper and lower case letters appropriately, appropriate sizing and spacing between letters and words)
• Write simple stories using sentences that include correctly spelled kindergarten sight words, letter sounds in unknown words, appropriate spacing, punctuation (periods, question marks, and/or exclamation points)
• Rote count by 1's, 10's, and 5's to at least 100.
• Rote count by 2's to at least 20.
• Identify numerals through at least 20
• Write numerals through at least 20 from memory
• Identify the following shapes: circle, square, rectangle, triangle, rhombus ("diamond"), oval, trapazoid, and hexagon
• Solve beginning addition and subtraction problems

The 50 kindergarten sight words that all students should be able to read by the end of kindergarten are: a, all, am, and, as, at, be, boy, but, can, did, do, down, for, girl, go, had, has, have, he, her, him, his, I, in, is, it, little, look, of, on, out, said, see, she, some, that, the, then, there, they, to, up, was, we, were, what, when, with, you

IF your child already knows how to read all 50 kindergarten sight words independently, feel free to move on to the first grade words.  The first grade words include: about, after, an, any, are, around, ask, away, before, big, blue, brown, by, call, came, come, could, day, don't, every, five, four, from, get, going, good, got, green, help, here, how, if, into, its, jump, just, know, like, long, make, me, my, no, now, old, one, or, over, pretty, put, red, ride, right, saw, six, sleep, take, their, them, this, too, two, very, walk, want, water, way, well, went, where, will, would, yellow, yes, your