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📖 Kindergarten · ELARF.K.1aUnit 1: Getting ready to read: books, print & names

Print goes left to right

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🎯 Objective: Students follow words left to right, top to bottom, page by page.

Lesson outline

  1. Shared reading of a big book with a pointer.
  2. Model the return sweep to the next line.
  3. Students “read” a familiar book with their finger.
  4. Exit: show where to start reading on a page.

Lesson 2 of 6 in this unit. In the Lesson Planner this lesson takes 1–3 class periods depending on your timetable: day 1 introduce & model, then practice, small-group reteach and a quick check.

📐 Standard

RF.K.1a

Common Core State Standards for ELA, Kindergarten — typical US scope & sequence (literacy block)

🏁 Unit goals

  • Handle a book correctly: front, back, title, left to right
  • Know that print carries meaning and words are separated by spaces
  • Recognize and write their own name

✅ Check for understanding

End with the exit ticket in the outline. Sort answers into got it / almost / not yet and start the next lesson with a 5-minute reteach for the “not yets”.

Practice & resources on Thinkabara

🎯 Practice: Print concepts & letters📚 All Kindergarten skills📚 Read-aloud stories⚡ Capy Live class quiz

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More lessons in “Getting ready to read: books, print & names”

  1. Parts of a book
  2. Print goes left to right
  3. Words, spaces and letters
  4. My name
  5. Letters vs numbers
  6. Listening to stories

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