Kindergarten ELA (Alaska Standards)

Reading Standards for Literature

• RL.K.1 With adult help, ask and answer questions about the important details in a story.
• RL.K.2 With prompting and support, retell familiar stories with key details.
• RL.K.3 With prompting and support, name the characters, setting, major events and problem and solution in a story, song or poem.
• RL.K.4 Ask and answer questions about unfamiliar words in a text.
• RL.K.5 Recognize common kinds of texts such as storybooks, picture books, poems and songs.
• RL.K.6 With adult help, name who wrote and who illustrated a story and say what each one contributes.
• RL.K.7 With prompting and support, describe how pictures relate to the story and use them to retell it.
• RL.K.9 With prompting and support, compare and contrast what characters experience in familiar stories.
• RL.K.10 Take an active part in shared reading of texts on a range of topics and cultures, with support.

Reading Standards for Informational Text

• RI.K.1 With prompting and support, use background knowledge to ask and answer questions about a text's important details.
• RI.K.2 With adult help, say what an informational text is mostly about and retell its important facts.
• RI.K.3 With adult help, explain a link between two people, events, ideas or facts in a text.
• RI.K.4 With adult help, ask and answer questions about new words in an informational text.
• RI.K.5 Point out a book's front cover, back cover and title page.
• RI.K.6 Name who wrote and who illustrated an informational book and say what each one contributes.
• RI.K.7 With prompting and support, describe how pictures relate to the text they appear in.
• RI.K.8 With prompting and support, identify the opinions an author states in a text.
• RI.K.9 With adult help, spot simple ways two texts about one topic are alike and different.
• RI.K.10 Take an active part in shared reading of informational texts on a range of topics, with support.

Reading Standards: Foundational Skills

• RF.K.1 Show understanding of how print is organized and its basic features.
  • a. Follow print from left to right, line by line down the page, and page after page.
  • b. Know spoken words are written as specific sequences of letters.
  • c. Know printed words are separated by spaces.
  • d. Know and name every capital and small letter of the alphabet.
• RF.K.2 Show awareness of spoken words, their syllables and their individual sounds (phonemes).
  • a. Recognize and produce rhyming words.
  • b. Count, say, blend and break apart the syllables of spoken words.
  • c. Blend and split the onset and rime of one-syllable spoken words.
  • d. Isolate and say the first, middle vowel and last sounds in three-sound (CVC) words (not those ending in /l/, /r/ or /x/).
  • e. Make new one-syllable words by adding or swapping a single sound.
• RF.K.3 Use grade-level phonics and word-analysis skills to sound out and read words.
  • a. Know one-to-one letter-sound links, giving the main sound for each consonant.
  • b. Link the long and short sounds of the five main vowels to their usual spellings.
  • c. Read very common words (e.g. the, of, you, is) by sight.
  • d. Tell similarly spelled words apart by the sounds of the letters that differ.
• RF.K.4 Read beginner-reader books with a purpose and understand them.

Writing Standards

• W.K.1 Draw, dictate and write to name a topic and give an opinion or preference about it.
• W.K.2 Draw, dictate and write to name a topic and give some information about it.
• W.K.3 Draw, dictate and write to tell about events in order, including an ending or how a problem was solved.
• W.K.5 With adult help, answer classmates' questions and ideas about a piece and add details to make it better.
• W.K.6 With adult help, try out digital tools to create and share writing, sometimes with classmates.
• W.K.7 Join class research and writing projects, such as exploring books by a favorite author.
• W.K.8 With guidance and support, recall information from experience or gather it from given sources to answer a question.

Speaking and Listening Standards

• SL.K.1 Take part in conversations with different partners about kindergarten topics and texts, in small and larger groups.
  • a. Follow agreed rules for discussion, such as listening and taking turns.
  • b. Keep a conversation going through several exchanges.
• SL.K.2 Check understanding of a read-aloud or spoken information by asking and answering questions and asking for clarification.
• SL.K.3 Ask and answer questions to get help, find out information or clear up confusion.
• SL.K.4 Describe familiar people, places, things and events, adding detail with prompting.
• SL.K.5 Add drawings or other visuals to descriptions to give more detail.
• SL.K.6 Speak loudly enough and share ideas and feelings clearly, using complete sentences when the task calls for it.

Language Standards

• L.K.1 Use correct standard English grammar when speaking and writing.
  • a. Print many capital and small letters.
  • b. Use common nouns and verbs.
  • c. Form regular plurals orally by adding /s/ or /es/.
  • d. Understand and use question words (who, what, where, when, why, how).
  • e. Use the most common prepositions (to, from, in, out, on, off and so on).
  • f. Say and build out full sentences during shared language work.
• L.K.2 Use capital letters, punctuation and spelling correctly when writing.
  • a. Capitalize the first word of a sentence, one's own name and the pronoun I.
  • b. Recognize and name end punctuation.
  • c. Write the letter or letters that stand for most consonant and short-vowel sounds.
  • d. Spell simple words by sound, using letter-sound knowledge.
• L.K.4 Work out unknown and multiple-meaning words from kindergarten reading and topics.
  • a. Learn and use new meanings for familiar words (e.g. duck the bird and to duck).
  • b. Use common endings and prefixes (e.g. -ed, -s, re-, un-) as clues to meaning.
• L.K.5 With guidance and support, explore word relationships and shades of meaning.
  • a. Group everyday objects (e.g. shapes, foods) to understand what each category means.
  • b. Show understanding of common verbs and adjectives by pairing them with opposites.
  • c. Find real-life links between words and their use (e.g. colorful places at school).
  • d. Act out shades of meaning among verbs for the same action (walk, march, strut).
• L.K.6 Use words and phrases learned through conversation, reading and being read to.