Subcategories

Phonics

and phonemic awareness Blending sounds, recognizing letter sounds, decoding words

Reading

comprehension Asking and answering questions about key details in a text

Writing

Developing skills from drawing and writing to composing stories, using a variety of sentence types, and learning cursive in later grades

Grammar

and usage Understanding and applying parts of speech (nouns, verbs, adjectives) and using correct capitalization and punctuation