Purpose: The purpose of this assignment is to develop a rubric for emergent reading skills in four year old children. 

Directions: 

For this assignment, you will : 

1. Design a developmental rubric for emerging reading skills in four-year-olds following the guidelines below. 
2. Find benchamrks (you’ll see them listed under the four objectives) for beginning readers to develop the characteristics for different stages of development. First study the Florida Early Learning and Developmental Standards for Four-Year-Olds. Click here to List five benchmarks of the Emergent Reader (section F) (pages 6-7) and use them as your goals. 
3. Organize the rubric into three levels. 
4. Next, determine what the child will be able to do to accomplish each level of the rubric.