Auditory: Listening for sounds, identifying individual phonemes in words, isolating and segmenting sounds.

Visual: Understanding that letter groups become words, and these words are read from left to right.

Identifying letters, connecting uppercase and lowercase forms, and font variations

Connection of letters to sounds, and blending letter sounds together to form words

Connection to the meaning of written words, and connection to life experiences

Using vocabulary knowledge, structure, critical thinking and inference to understand text.