Reading for Preschool

Kids Academy Classroom's Preschool Reading curriculum is designed to build early literacy skills step by step, helping children develop a strong foundation for reading and comprehension. Through interactive activities, children explore letters, sounds, and words in fun and age-appropriate ways.

Core areas covered:

Print concepts

• Distinguish which punctuation should be used

• Read words in order

• Identify text features

• Recognize written words and individual words

Accuracy and fluency

• Read common sight words

• Rearrange sounds to make words (decoding practice)

Early phonics and phonological awareness

• Rhyming words

Phonics

• Determining the meaning of words with common suffixes

• Distinguishing between long and short vowels

• Sorting words by number of syllables

Comprehension

• Key details in a text

• Summarizing a text

• Answering questions about key details in a story

• Retelling familiar stories

• Identifying characters and settings

• Understanding the relationship between illustrations and the story

• Recognizing poetry and informational text

• Answering questions about key details in informational texts

Interactive learning

• Worksheets for practice and skill reinforcement

• Videos to introduce and explain concepts

• Drills for phonics, syllables, and early reading fluency

This approach helps preschool learners gain confidence in reading while developing the foundational skills needed for independent reading in Kindergarten and beyond.