Reading domains

Knowledge and use of the structure, meanings and uses of the kanguage

• Oral Language

• Spelling

• Phonics

Work with rhymes, syllables, onsets and rimes

• Attitude towards Literacy, language and literature

• Phonological awareness

• Vocabulary

Ability to notice, think about and work with the individual sounds in spoken words

• Attitude towards Literacy, language and literature

• Alphabet knowledge

• Phonemic awareness

Refers to knowing and being acquainted with books and how print works

• Alphabet knowledge

• Book and print knowledge

• Printed materials

Ability to recognize, name and sound out all the upper and lower case letters of the alphabet

• Alphabet knowledge

• Alphabet literacy

• Writing and phonemes

Having a sense of being a reader and developing individual choices of and tastes for texts to read for various purposes such as for learning or for pleasure

• Positive attitude towards literacy, language and literature

• Positive attitude towards texts and sounds

• Positive senses of learning

Being able to formulate ideas into sentences or longer texts and represent them in the conventional orthographic patterns of written language

• Spelling

• Writing and composing

• Orthography

Invented spelling is not acceptable in kindergarten

• True

• False

Knowledge of words and their meanings in both oral and print representations

• Vocabulary development

• Oral and print

• Word recognition

A complex and active process in which vocabulary knowledge is a crucial component and which requires an intentional and thoughtful interaction between the listener and the text.

• Vocabulary development

• Listening comprehension

• Reading