What your child should know by the end of Kindergarten Matching upper & lower case letters - Name the letters of the alphabet - Connect sounds with letters - Recognize sight words (such as I, a, me, are, see, like, and, etc) - Read 25 books for pleasure and to get information - Understand how words work by following along while he or she listens to simple books - Follow simple directions - Write independently - Tell stories Writers Workshop or ideas to an adult - Print numbers, letters of the alphabet and a few simple words. - Write numbers from 0 to 21 in order - Count aloud to 100, backwards from 10, and by 10's to 100 - Build addition and subtraction families to 5 (for example, 2+3=5, 1+4=5, 5-3=2, etc.) - Recognize the names of squares, rectangles, circles and triangles - Reading Measure objects using non-standard units (for example, the table is four teddy bears high) - Use the terms "longer", "shorter", "equal", "more", and "less." - Recognize and name pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters, and their values. - Recognize simples patterns (such as a/b/a/c or red/yellow/red/blue) - Read and interpret graphs