Learn to Read with the Litkidz Reading Curriculum

Early Literacy

1. Phonemic Awareness (aka Phonological Awareness)

(Assessment-based)

  • Word Awareness – recognize and count words
  • Syllable Awareness –recognize and count syllables
  • Word Rhyming – hear rhymes
  • Work with phonemes (match, isolate, segment, blend, add, and substitute)

2. Letter Knowledge – reading and writing

(Assessment-based)

  • Letter recognition and creation: Upper Case letters
  • Letter recognition and creation: Lower case letters
  • Letter Names – upper and lower case

This curriculum is for developing pre-literacy skills with younger (4 to 5) children, or those who have not yet begun to read at all. 

Sample books we would use:

  • Cat in the Hat
  • Hop on Pop
  • Green Eggs and Ham

(Click below for other class descriptions )

  1. EARLY LITERACY (age 5)
  2. EARLY READERS (ages 5 – 7): 2 parts
  3. EMERGING READERS (5 – 8): 3 parts
  4. THIRD GRADE READING: 3 parts