EMERGENT       Goals:  accurate tracking, how written language works, concepts about print,
                                                         letter formation, letter-sound associations, phonemic awareness, phonics

BEGINNING        Goals: success in reading, automatic word recognition, predicting using multiple
                                                              cueing systems, cross checking, vocabulary, concepts, writing for sound,
                                                              sorting (beginning sound), rhyming, short vowel recognition

INSTRUCTIONAL     Goals:  fluency (speed and accuracy), strategies for comprehension, express
                                                                       ideas in writing, sort by vowel sound and pattern