Developing Essential Literacy Skills —
Abstract of

Chapter 2
Kindergarten: Introducing Essential Skills

Robin Cohen

Building important literacy skills must begin in Kindergarten and continue to be reintroduced and reinforced throughout the primary grades. This is necessary not only to prepare students to be lifelong literacy learners, but also if students are to meet the ever increasing demands of state literacy standards and state-mandated assessments.

Chapter 2 contains units of study that will help Kindergarten teachers introduce essential strategies and skills to students in order to begin a continuum of ongoing essential reading and writing lessons through the primary grades. Each unit of study is accompanied by recommended materials, literary resources, reproducibles, and assessments to aid teachers in successful implementation of the units.

Cohen, R. (2008). Kindergarten: Introducing Essential Skills. In Developing Essential Literacy Skills (pp. 15-40). Newark, DE: International Reading Association.