These skills usually develop when a child is in Kindergarten. If you have questions talk to your child’s teacher.

• Does your child listen carefully when you read books aloud?
• Does your child know the shapes and names of the letters of the alphabet and write some of them?
• Does your child know that spoken words are made of separate sounds?
• Can you child recognize and make rhymes?
• Can your child sound out some letters?
• Does your child know that the order of letters in a word stands for the order of sounds in the word?
• Does your child know some “sight” words such as; a, I, the and you?
• Does your child know how to hold a book and follow the words from left to right and top to bottom?
• Does your child ask and answer questions about stories.
• Can your child predict what will happen in some stories and is able to retell stories?
• Can your child write down some letters, especially their first, last names and their phone number?