Kindergarten ELA (Arizona ELA Standards)

Reading Standards for Literature

• K.RL.1 With adult help, ask and answer questions about the important details in a story.
• K.RL.2 With prompting and support, retell familiar stories with key details.
• K.RL.3 With prompting and support, name the characters, setting and main events of a story.
• K.RL.4 Ask and answer questions about unfamiliar words in a text.
• K.RL.5 Recognize common kinds of texts such as storybooks and poems, and identify a book's front cover, back cover and title.
• K.RL.6 With adult help, name who wrote and who illustrated a story and say what each one contributes.
• K.RL.7 With prompting and support, describe how the pictures relate to the story they appear in.
• K.RL.9 With prompting and support, compare and contrast what characters experience in familiar stories.
• K.RL.10 Take an active part in group reading with purpose and understanding.

Reading Standards for Informational Text

• K.RI.1 With adult help, ask and answer questions about the important facts in an informational book.
• K.RI.2 With adult help, say what an informational text is mostly about and retell its important facts.
• K.RI.3 With adult help, explain a link between two people, events, ideas or facts in a text.
• K.RI.4 With adult help, ask and answer questions about new words in an informational text.
• K.RI.5 Recognize informational books and point out a book's covers and its title page.
• K.RI.6 With prompting and support, name the author and illustrator and explain each one's role in presenting the information.
• K.RI.7 With prompting and support, describe how pictures relate to the text they appear in.
• K.RI.8 With adult help, find the reasons an author gives for the points made.
• K.RI.9 With adult help, spot simple ways two texts about one topic are alike and different.
• K.RI.10 Take an active part in group reading of informational texts with purpose and understanding.

Reading Standards: Foundational Skills

• K.RF.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 a sentence is made of a group of words.
  • d. Tell the difference between a single letter and a printed word.
  • e. Know printed words are separated by spaces.
  • f. Know and name every capital and small letter of the alphabet.
• K.RF.2 Show awareness of spoken words, their syllables and their individual sounds (phonemes).
  • a. Identify and produce the individual sounds in a spoken word.
  • b. Recognize and produce rhyming words.
  • c. Count, blend and segment syllables, onsets and rimes, and blend phonemes into one-syllable 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 words by adding, swapping or removing a sound in a short spoken word.
• K.RF.3 Use grade-level phonics and word-analysis skills to sound out and read words.
  • a. Produce the most frequent sound for each consonant and for the five major vowels.
  • b. Decode regularly spelled closed-syllable words (short vowel).
  • c. Read about 50 common high-frequency words by sight from a research-based list. (being checked)
  • d. Tell similarly spelled words apart by the sounds of the letters that differ.
• K.RF.4 Read beginner-reader books with a purpose and understand them.

Writing Standards

• K.W.1 With guidance, use drawing, dictating and writing to give an opinion about a topic or book.
• K.W.2 With guidance, use drawing, dictating and writing to name a topic and give some information about it.
• K.W.3 With guidance, use drawing, dictating and writing to tell about one or more events in order and react to them.
• K.W.4 With guidance and support, produce writing whose development and organization suit the task and purpose. (being checked)
• K.W.5 With adult help, answer classmates' questions and ideas about a piece and add details to make it better.
• K.W.6 With adult help, try out digital tools to create and share writing, sometimes with classmates.
• K.W.7 Join class research and writing projects, such as exploring books by a favorite author.
• K.W.8 With guidance and support, recall information from experience or gather it from given sources to answer a question.

Writing Foundations (Arizona)

• K.WF.1 Show handwriting skills by forming upper- and lowercase manuscript letters.
  • a. Match each uppercase manuscript letter with its lowercase form.
  • b. Write upper- and lowercase manuscript letters using a model.
  • c. Write from left to right with spaces between words.
• K.WF.2 Use sound-letter connections when writing words, including breaking spoken words into sounds.
  • a. Break a spoken one-syllable word into its separate sounds.
  • b. Know that every syllable has a vowel sound.
• K.WF.3 Use phonics and word analysis skills to spell words when writing.
  • a. Write a letter for each sound in simple words using known letter-sound links.
  • b. Write or choose the first or last consonant when given the middle vowel.
  • c. Spell VC and CVC words with short vowels (e.g. pet).
  • d. Spell grade-level words from a research-based kindergarten word list.
  • e. Spell unknown words phonetically using the sounds heard.

Speaking and Listening Standards

• K.SL.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.
• K.SL.2 Check understanding of a read-aloud or spoken information by asking and answering questions and asking for clarification.
• K.SL.3 Ask and answer questions to get help, find out information or clear up confusion.
• K.SL.4 Describe familiar people, places, things and events, adding detail with prompting.
• K.SL.5 Add drawings or other visuals to descriptions to give more detail.
• K.SL.6 Speak loudly enough and express thoughts, feelings and ideas clearly.

Language Standards

• K.L.1 Use correct standard English grammar when speaking and writing.
  • a. Use common nouns and verbs.
  • b. Form regular plurals orally by adding /s/ or /es/.
  • c. Understand and use question words (who, what, where, when, why, how).
  • d. Use the most common prepositions (to, from, in, out, on, off and so on).
  • e. Say and build out full sentences during shared language work.
• K.L.2 Show command of capitalization, punctuation and spelling when writing.
  • a. Capitalize the first word of a sentence and the pronoun I.
  • b. Recognize and name end punctuation.
• K.L.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).
• K.L.6 Use words and phrases learned through conversation, reading and being read to.