Prepare for Kindergarten: Literacy
Summer reading workbook for kids going into kindergarten
Prepare for Kindergarten: Literacy is the reading partner to Prepare for Kindergarten: Math. In eight short units, read aloud by you, your student meets letters and their sounds, hears rhymes and beats in words, writes their own name and retells a story. It opens with a check that shows what to work on and ends with a second check so you can see the progress.
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What's inside
- Books and print
- Letter names
- Letter sounds
- Writing my name
- Rhyming
- Clapping syllables
- First sounds in words
- Retelling a story
How to use it
- Start with the Readiness Check at the front. The Scoring Chart shows which units need the most time and which can be skipped.
- Each unit has a short note for you, words to read aloud, the one mistake to watch for, two things to try together and eight practice questions with pictures. The answers are in the back.
- About ten minutes a day is plenty. Your student does not need to read: they point, say a sound, clap, trace and tell.
- Finish with the Final Check and compare the two scores on the Before and after page.
- It is a printable PDF with a clickable table of contents and page numbers on every page.
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Questions parents ask
A student who starts kindergarten in the fall, usually aged 4 or 5. Your student does not need to read: you read every line aloud.
Eight units: books and print, letter names, letter sounds, writing their own name, rhyming, clapping syllables, first sounds in words and retelling a story. Each unit names the kindergarten standard it leads to.
About ten minutes a day. Most students need three or four units after the first check, which is four or five weeks with days off.
A printable PDF book. It is a one-time purchase, no subscription: buy it once and print it at home as often as you need for your household.
Yes. Prepare for Kindergarten: Math has the same 8-unit layout for counting, numbers 0 to 10, shapes, sorting and patterns. The two books work well together over one summer.
Yes. We update our books as we improve them, often from suggestions by parents, teachers and educators. Your purchase stays in your UpOnly Learning account, and every download gives you the newest version at no extra cost.