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Common Core Foundational Skills

“Songbooks of Science” and the Common Core Reading Standards Foundational Skills

Kindergarten Students: Grade 1 Students: Grade 2 Students:
Print Concepts
  1. Demonstrate understanding of the organization and basic
    features of print.

    1. Follow words from left to right, top to bottom, and
      page-by-page.
    2. Recognize that spoken words are represented in written
      language by specific sequence of letters.
    3. Understand that words are separated by spaces in print.
    4. Recognize and name all upper- and lowercase letters of
      the alphabet.
      *(All titles)
  1. Demonstrate understanding of the organization and
    basic features of print.

    1. Recognize the distinguishing features of a
      sentence (e.g., first word, capitalization,
      ending punctuation).
      *(All titles)
Phonological Awareness
  1. Demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and
    sounds (phonemes).

    1. Recognize and produce rhyming words.*(All titles except- Bear Facts, Save a Tree for Me, and
      Winter’s Gift.)
    2. Count, pronounce, blend, and segment syllables in
      spoken words.*(All titles- music and lyrics on inside back covers)
    3. Blend and segment onsets and rimes of single-syllable
      spoken words.
      *(All titles)
    4. Isolate and pronounce the initial, medial vowel, and final sounds (phenomes) in three-phenome (consonant-vowel-consonant, or CVC) words. This does not include CVCs ending with /l/,/r/, or /x/.
      (Frog on a Log)
    5. Add or substitute individual sounds (phonemes), in
      simple, one-syllable words to make new words.(Innovations with rhyming words in Gravity.)
  1. Demonstrate understanding of spoken words,
    syllables, and sounds (phonemes).

    1. Distinguish long from short vowel sounds in
      spoken single-syllable words.*(All titles, especially Frog on a Log)
    2. Orally produce single-syllable words by
      blending sounds (phonemes), including consonant blends.*(All titles, especially Frog on a Log)
    3. Isolate and pronounce initial, medial vowel,
      and final sounds (phonemes) in spoken single-syllable words.*(All titles, especially Frog on a Log)
    4. Segment spoken single-syllable words into
      their complete sequence of individual
      sounds (phonemes).*(All titles- lyrics on inside back covers)
Phonics and Word Recognition
  1. Know and apply grade-level phonics
    and word analysis skills in decoding
    words.

    1. Demonstrate basic knowledge
      of one-to-one letter-sound correspondences by producing the primary sound or many of the most frequent sounds for each consonant.
      *(All titles)
    2. Associate the long and short
      sounds with common spellings (graphemes) for the five major vowels.
      (Frog on a Log, Busy Bees)
    3. Read common high-frequency words by sight (e.g., the, of, to, you, she, my, is, are, do, does).
      *(All titles)
    4. Distinguish between similarly spelled words by identifying the sounds of the letters that differ.
      (All titles with rhyming text except Bear Facts, Save a Tree for Me, and Winter’s Gift)
  1. Know and apply grade-level phonics
    and word analysis skills in decoding
    words.

    1. Decode regularly spelled one-syllable words.
      *(All Titles)
    2. Know final –e and common vowel
      team conventions for representing
      long vowel sounds.
      (Busy Bees, Frog
      on a Log, Munch,Munch,Munch)
    3. Use knowledge that every syllable
      must have a vowel sound to
      determine the number of syllables in
      a printed word.
      *(All titles- Use
      music/lyrics on back inside covers)
    4. Decode two syllable words following
      basic patterns by breaking the words
      into syllables.
      *(All titles- Use
      music/lyrics on back inside covers)
    5. Read words with inflectional
      endings.
      (What Hatches from an
      Egg?, The Predator)
  1. Know and apply grade-level phonics
    and word analysis skills in decoding
    words.

    1. Distinguish long and short
      vowels when reading
      regularly spelled one –
      syllable words.
      (Frog on a
      Log)
    2. Know spelling-sound
      correspondences for
      additional common vowel
      teams.
      (B-B-B-Bats, Busy
      Bees, Gravity, What
      Hatches from an Egg?, The
      Predator)
Fluency
  1. Read emergent –reader texts with
    purpose and understanding.
    *(All titles)
  1. Read with sufficient accuracy
    and fluency to support
    comprehension.

    1. Read on-level text with
      purpose and
      understanding.
      *(All
      titles)
    2. Read on-level text
      orally with accuracy,
      appropriate rate, and
      expression on
      successive readings.*(All titles- Singing
      lyrics strongly support
      this skill!)
    3. Use context to confirm
      or self-correct word
      recognition and
      understanding,
      rereading as necessary.
      *(All titles- Songs about
      Science will help the
      student learn content
      area vocabulary more
      easily!)
  1. Read with sufficient accuracy
    and fluency to support
    comprehension.

    1. Read on-level text with
      purpose and
      understanding.
      *(All
      titles)
    2. Read on-level text
      orally with accuracy,
      appropriate rate, and
      expression on
      successive readings.*(All titles- Singing
      lyrics strongly support
      this skill!)
    3. Use context to confirm
      or self-correct word
      recognition and
      understanding,
      rereading as necessary.
      *(All titles- Songs about
      Science will help the
      student learn content
      area vocabulary more
      easily!)
* All titles include: B-B-B-Bats, Bear Facts, Busy Bees, Dig a Dinosaur, Frog on a Log, Gravity, What Hatches from an Egg?, Munch,Munch,Munch, Save a Tree for Me, The Predator, Winter’s Gift