Kindergarten ELA (Oklahoma Academic Standards)

Standard 1: Listening and Speaking

• K.1.L.1 Listens actively and follows agreed rules for discussion, with reminders.
• K.1.L.2 Follows one- and two-step spoken directions.
• K.1.S.1 Treats classmates with respect, with reminders.
• K.1.S.2 Joins group talk about topics and texts, including own writing, with reminders.
• K.1.S.3 Asks and answers relevant questions, with reminders.
• K.1.S.4 Talks about interests or tells stories while following rules such as taking turns.

Standard 2: Reading and Writing Foundations and Process

• K.2.PA.1 Counts the words, including longer words, in a spoken sentence.
• K.2.PA.2 Recognizes rhyming pairs and says a word that rhymes with a given word.
• K.2.PA.3 Isolates and says the first and last sounds in spoken words.
• K.2.PA.4 Counts, splits, and blends syllables in spoken words.
• K.2.PA.5 Blends and splits onsets and rimes in one-syllable spoken words.
• K.2.PA.6 Blends two to four sounds to make a one-syllable spoken word.
• K.2.PA.7 Splits one-syllable spoken words of two to four sounds into single sounds.
• K.2.PC.1 Understands that print carries meaning, as in labels, signs, and print around them.
• K.2.PC.2 Holds books correctly and finds the title, title page, front cover, and back cover.
• K.2.PC.3 Knows that we read pages from the top down, each line from left to right, and a book from front to back.
• K.2.PC.4 Knows words are made of letters and are separated by spaces.
• K.2.PC.5 Notices sentence features such as capital letters and end marks, with prompting.
• K.2.PC.6 Writes first and last name and most letters correctly.
• K.2.PWS.1 Names all capital and lowercase letters.
• K.2.PWS.2 Puts the letters of the alphabet in order.
• K.2.PWS.3 Says short and long vowel sounds and common consonant sounds.
• K.2.PWS.4 Blends letter sounds to read simple VC and CVC words.
• K.2.SE.1 Spells main consonant sounds in a logical phonetic way.
• K.2.SE.2 Spells every sound in CVC words in a logical phonetic way.
• K.2.F.1 Reads own first and last name in print.
• K.2.F.2 Recites familiar rhymes, songs, and poems.
• K.2.F.3 Builds a bank of sight words, reading regular and irregular words more and more quickly.
• K.2.R.1 Names the topic or main idea and one supporting detail, with prompting.
• K.2.R.2 Tells fiction apart from nonfiction, with prompting.
• K.2.R.3 Puts the beginning, middle, and end of a story in order, with prompting.
• K.2.R.4 Starts to retell facts and details from informational texts.
• K.2.W.1 Shares ideas through drawing and early writing.
• K.2.W.2 Puts the events or details of a story in order, with prompting.
• K.2.W.3 Leaves suitable spaces between letters and words in early writing.
• K.2.W.4 Adds details to drawings and early writing.
• K.2.W.5 Shares stories with real audiences.

Standard 3: Critical Reading and Writing

• K.3.R.1 Describes what authors and illustrators do.
• K.3.R.2 Answers simple who, what, where, and when questions about a text, with prompting.
• K.3.R.3 Describes the characters and setting of a story, with prompting.
• K.3.W Uses drawing, labels, and writing to tell a story, give information, or give an opinion, with prompting.

Standard 4: Vocabulary

• K.4.R.1 Sorts familiar objects into groups by how they are alike and different, with prompting.
• K.4.R.2 Begins to notice context clues in read-alouds and texts.
• K.4.R.3 Learns new words and links them to what they already know.
• K.4.W.1 Uses new words to make complete sentences in shared activities.
• K.4.W.2 Uses language that fits the purpose in shared writing.

Standard 5: Language

• K.5.R.1 Recognizes simple sentences, with prompting.
• K.5.R.2 Identifies nouns, verbs, describing words for color and size, the pronoun I, and words for position and time.
• K.5.W.1 Begins writing simple sentences that start with a capital letter and end with an end mark.
• K.5.W.2 Capitalizes first names and the pronoun I, with prompting.
• K.5.W.3 Recognizes end marks (period, question mark, exclamation point) and starts using them.

Standard 6: Research

• K.6.R.1 Identifies useful pictures, charts, texts, or people as sources of information.
• K.6.R.2 Uses photos, illustrations, and titles to understand a text.
• K.6.W.1 Comes up with topics and decides whether a friend, teacher, or expert could answer questions, with prompting.
• K.6.W.2 Finds information in given sources during group research, with prompting.
• K.6.W.3 Shares relevant information for different purposes, with prompting.

Standard 7: Multimodal Literacies

• K.7.R Explores ideas and topics in multimodal content.
• K.7.W Uses movement with props, images, or drawings to support writing and speaking.

Standard 8: Independent Reading and Writing

• K.8.R Listens and responds to read-alouds, joins in shared reading, and explores texts on their own.
• K.8.W Shares ideas through drawing and early writing, with prompting.