Children will understand purpose, structure, and function of writing a letter.

The child will use emergent writing to describe thoughts and ideas about an experience.

Children will independently use letter-like shapes or letters to write words/parts of words.

Children will use emergent writing while making lists.

The child will begin to write own name (first, last, or nickname).

The child will match initial phonemes to graphemes.

The child will match initial phonemes to graphemes.

The student will identify similarities and differences between stories.

The student will retell a story.

The student will retell a story.