The Reading Foundational Skills strand of the Common Core Standards applies to students in kindergarten through 5th grade. These standards foster basic alphabetic principals and print concepts. Although these skills do not solely create a good reader, they are integral components of a balanced literacy program. As stated in the CCSS, “Instruction should be differentiated: good readers will need much less practice with these concepts than struggling readers will. The point is to teach students what they need to learn and not what they already know- to discern when particular children or activities warrant more or less attention” (CCSS, p.15). The links below lead to the maps of the Reading Foundational Skills. Various instructional strategies are provided for the standards when you click on the green circles.
For ease of use, the Reading Foundational Skills have been divided into two parts: The first map shows the Print Concepts, Phonological Awareness Skills, and Fluency Skills that are to be mastered. The second map shows the Phonics portion of the Reading Foundational Skills.
Click below for the maps (with links to explanatory videos) covering the Reading Foundation Skills. Print Concepts, Phonological Skills, and Fluency are covered in the map in the left and the Phonics portion of the Reading Foundational Skills on the right.
The two overview maps show how the concepts covered in the above maps fit into the larger range of ELA Common Core concepts.
To skip the map, click on the standard below and directly view the coinciding video.
