Not Yet Beginning In Progress Intermediate Proficient
Understands and interprets story read to him/her 7% 10% 23% 30% 30%
Easily and quickly names all upper- and lower-case letters at start of kindergarten 0% 3% 17% 21% 59%
Produces rhyming words 3% 23% 20% 27% 27%
Reads simple books independently 10% 20% 10% 23% 37%
Matches letters to sounds 0% 7% 17% 23% 53%
Identifies beginning sounds of words 0% 13% 13% 20% 53%
Overall literacy skills 0% 13% 27% 23% 37%
Table 4: Teacher Reported Literacy Skills based on ECLS-K Measures at the End of Kindergarten.