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ILA Kindergarten Skills Checklist
The information included on this checklist is assessed on a continuous record of growth. This includes daily class participation, teacher observation, and oral/written activities and formal assessments.
By January, students should be able to:
- recognize all 26 capital letters in mixed order
- recognize all 26 lower case letters in mixed order
- associate consonant sounds with correct letters
- recognize sight words
- print letters appropriately
- apply knowledge of letter sounds to written expression
- space words correctly when writing
- hear rhyming words
- produce rhyming words
Sight words – I, a, my, go, to, like, the, and, in, at, it, he, me, is, we, you,
she, come, this, here, on, was, am, saw, for, where, do, look
By June, students should be able to:
- maintain and continue with above skills
- recognize all capital letters in mixed order
- recognize all lower case letters in mixed order
- recognize all sight words
- print all letters appropriately
- apply knowledge of all letter sounds to written expression
- associate vowel sounds with correct letters
- show awareness of proper capitalization
- show awareness of ending punctuation
- write 2 or 3 sentences about a topic
Sight words – All of the previous words plus the following
his, of, said, that, one, see, what, two, him, with, but, up, out, they, have,
down, want, who, her, there, are, good, little, give, all, so, as, be, then