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KINDERGARTEN - English Language Arts and Reading/Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) READING: Student Expectations What It Means to Teachers Beginning Reading Skills/Print Awareness K.1.A. Recognize that spoken words are represented by print for communication. During shared reading time with the whole class or with an individual student, track words and sentences as you read them aloud. When teaching individual words, track letters as you say the word, while modeling left-to-right progression. At a literacy work station, provide plastic, magnetic, or cards of letters and ask students to “make” high-frequency words, including names of classmates, using word cards/word walls as models. K.1.B. Identify upper- and lower-case letters. After a shared reading and discussion of a book, re-enter it (turn back to a page of a big book) and ask students to point to an upper- or lower-case letter. At a literacy work station, have students match upper- and lower-case letters using plastic, magnetic, or cards of letters. K.1.C. Demonstrate the one-to-one correspondence between a spoken word and a printed word in text. For voice-print matching, reread a familiar text and ask students to clap once for each word noting which students clap instead on each syllable rather on each word. Point out spaces between words. At a literacy work station, ask buddies to read aloud and clap once per word to reinforce this critical concept. K.1.D. Recognize the difference between a letter and a printed word. After a shared reading and discussion of a book, re-enter a page to review specific “concepts of print” (e.g., letter vs. word). Assess knowledge by asking: Point to a letter that you know. Find a word that you know. Find a word that starts with the letter ___. Find a word that ends with the letter ___. Find the word “the.” How did you know that it was “the”? Based on students’ responses, explicitly teach the concept needing reinforcement and monitor progress during dail