Today I took time to do a few early reading and literacy assessments with Kelcy, in order to have data that will drive my future instruction in the language arts. We assessed upper and lowercase letters, consonant sounds, oral language, phonological awareness (blending and segmenting), and the first 25 high frequency words.

We spent time reading a nonfiction vs. fiction book about penguins and discussing the differences we noticed. Kelcy journaled about his character Tacky the Penguin, and his favorite part of the story.