Reading Skills At the End of First Grade

Name all alphabet letters.

Produce the correct sound for all consonant letters.

Produce the “long” and “short” vowel sounds for the 5 main vowel letters.

Produce the correct sound for the “h” digraphs (th, sh, wh, ch) and see these as a unit in words like much, sheep, this and what.

Count the number of sylla…