Junior Kindergarten: Reading
- Enjoy listening to stories
- Choose and “read” picture books for pleasure
- Locate and respond to aspects of interest in self-selected texts (pointing, examining pictures closely, commenting)
- Show curiosity and ask questions about pictures or text
- Listen attentively and respond to stories read aloud
- Participate in shared reading, joining in with rhymes, refrains, and repeated text as they gain familiarity
- Make connections to their own experience when listening to or “reading” texts
- Begin to discriminate between visual representations such as symbols, numbers, letters, and words
- Recognize their own first name
- Express opinions about the meaning of a story
- Show empathy for characters in a story
- Distinguish between pictures and written text, for example, can point to a picture when asked
- Indicate printed text where the teacher should start reading
- Handle books, showing an understanding of how a book works, for example, cover, beginning, directional movement, end
- Realize that the organization of on-screen text is different from how text is organized in a book
- Join in with chants, poems, songs, word games and clapping games, gaining familiarity with the sounds and patterns of the language of instruction
