Kindergarten ELA (Mississippi CCR Standards)

Reading Literature (RL)

• RL.K.1 With support, ask and answer questions about important details in a story.
• RL.K.2 With support, retell familiar stories with key details.
• RL.K.3 With support, identify characters, settings, and major events.
• RL.K.4 Ask and answer questions about words they do not know in a text.
• RL.K.5 Recognize common types of text such as storybooks and poems.
• RL.K.6 Name the author and illustrator and say what each does.
• RL.K.7 Describe how illustrations relate to the story.
• RL.K.8 (Not applicable to literature.)
• RL.K.9 Compare and contrast the adventures of characters in familiar stories.
• RL.K.10 Take part in group reading activities with purpose.

Reading Informational Text (RI)

• RI.K.1 With support, ask and answer questions about the important details.
• RI.K.2 With support, name the main topic and retell key details.
• RI.K.3 Describe a connection between two people, events, ideas, or pieces of information.
• RI.K.4 Ask and answer questions about words they do not know in a text.
• RI.K.5 Point out a book's front cover, back cover, and title page.
• RI.K.6 Name the author and illustrator and say what each does.
• RI.K.7 Describe how illustrations relate to the text.
• RI.K.8 Name the reasons an author gives for the points in a text.
• RI.K.9 Spot what is alike and different in two texts on one topic.
• RI.K.10 Take part in group reading of informational texts with purpose.

Reading Foundational Skills (RF)

• RF.K.1 Understand how print is organized and its basic features.
  • a. Track print across the line, down the page, and page after page.
  • b. Know spoken words are written as sequences of letters.
  • c. Know words are separated by spaces in print.
  • d. Recognize and name all capital and lowercase letters.
• RF.K.2 Understand spoken words, syllables, and sounds (phonemes).
  • a. Recognize and make rhyming words.
  • b. Count, say, blend, and split syllables in spoken words.
  • c. Blend and split onsets and rimes of one-syllable words.
  • d. Isolate the first, middle vowel, and last sounds in CVC words.
  • e. Add or swap sounds to make new one-syllable words.
• RF.K.3 Use grade-level phonics and word analysis to decode words.
  • a. Say the most common sound for each consonant.
  • b. Match long and short vowel sounds with their spellings.
  • c. Read common high-frequency words by sight.
  • d. Tell similarly spelled words apart by the sounds of the letters that differ.
• RF.K.4 Read early-reader texts with purpose and understanding.

Writing (W)

• W.K.1 Use drawing, dictating, and writing to give an opinion.
• W.K.2 Use drawing, dictating, and writing to give information about a topic.
• W.K.3 Use drawing, dictating, and writing to tell events in order.
• W.K.4 (Begins in grade 3) Production and distribution of writing.
• W.K.5 With adult help, respond to peers and add details to writing.
• W.K.6 With adult help, try digital tools to produce and publish writing.
• W.K.7 Take part in shared research and writing projects.
• W.K.8 With adult help, recall or gather information to answer a question.
• W.K.9 (Begins in grade 4) Drawing evidence from texts for research.
• W.K.10 (Begins in grade 3) Range of writing.

Speaking and Listening (SL)

• SL.K.1 Take part in conversations with others about kindergarten topics.
  • a. Follow agreed rules for discussion such as taking turns.
  • b. Keep a conversation going through several exchanges.
• SL.K.2 Show understanding of a text read aloud by asking and answering questions.
• SL.K.3 Ask and answer questions to get help or clarify something.
• SL.K.4 Describe familiar people, places, things, and events.
• SL.K.5 Add drawings or other visuals to descriptions for more detail.
• SL.K.6 Speak audibly and express thoughts and ideas clearly.

Language (L)

• L.K.1 Use standard English grammar and usage.
  • a. Print all capital and lowercase letters.
  • b. Use common nouns and verbs.
  • c. Form regular plurals out loud by adding /s/ or /es/.
  • d. Understand and use question words.
  • e. Use the most common prepositions.
  • f. Make and expand complete sentences in shared activities.
• L.K.2 Use standard capitalization, punctuation, and spelling.
  • a. Capitalize the first word of a sentence and the pronoun I.
  • b. Recognize and name end punctuation.
  • c. Write a letter for most consonant and short vowel sounds.
  • d. Spell simple words phonetically.
• L.K.3 (Begins in grade 2) Knowledge of language.
• L.K.4 Work out unknown and multiple-meaning words.
  • a. Learn new meanings for familiar words and use them.
  • b. Use common inflections and affixes as clues to meaning.
• L.K.5 Explore word relationships and small differences in meaning.
  • a. Sort common objects into categories.
  • b. Match common verbs and adjectives with their opposites.
  • c. Link words to real-life uses.
  • d. Tell apart verbs with similar meanings by acting them out.
• L.K.6 Use words learned through conversation, reading, and responding to texts.