I am a K teacher at this point in the year the kids that we start to worry about are the ones that aren’t doing most of the following
-Recognizing about 30 sight words
-Rhyming
-Sounding out CVC words
-1:1 correspondence (word to finger)
-retell the story
-reading at level B

I only have about 4-5 kids who fall in the category out of 26.