1. Three Stages of Reading and Writing

3. Show interest in books

4. Pretend to read

5. Use picture cues and predictable patterns in books to retell story

6. Reread familiar books with predictable patterns

7. Identify some letter names

9. Write letters and letter like forms or scribble

10. Develop an understanding of directionality

11. Show interest in writing

12. Write their first and last names

13. Write 5-20 familiar or high-frequency words

15. Match spoken words to written words

16. Recognize 20-100 high-frequency words

17. Use beginning, middle, and ending sounds to decode

18. Apply knowledge of the cueing system to monitor reading

19. Self-correct while reading

20. Read orally, slowly, word-by-word

21. Point to words when reading

23. Print the upper- and lowercase letters

24. Write one or more sentences

25. Add a title

26. Spell many words phonetically

27. Spell 20-50 high-frequency words correctly

28. Write single-draft compositions

29. Use capital letters to begin sentences

30. Use punctuation to mark the end of sentences

32. Read with expression

33. Read at a rate of 100 words/minute or more

34. Prefer to read silently

35. Identify unfamiliar words using the cueing system

36. Recognize 100-300 high-frequency words

37. Use a variety of strategies effectively

38. Often reads independently

39. Make inferences

41. Write compositions with one or more paragraphs

42. Indent paragraphs

43. Spell most of the 100 high-frequency words

44. Use sophisticated and technical vocabulary

45. Apply vowel patterns to spell words

46. Add inflectional endings on words

47. Apply capitalization rules

48. Use commas, quotation marks, and other punctuation marks