Reading Readiness

The reading readiness skills are the following:

Knows where to find the title of a book
Knows what an author and illustrator do on a book
Framing "a word" with fingers
Identifies how many words in a sentence
Can dictate a sentence to go with self drawn picture
Can identify initial (beginning) sounds of words: top pig nest
Blends sounds: /b/ /at/ =bat
Can rhyme: cat/hat  dog/hog sad/ mad
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