Kindergarten ELA (South Dakota Content Standards)

Reading Literature (RL)

• K.RL.1 With help, ask and answer questions about the parts of a story read aloud.
• K.RL.2 With support, retell familiar stories including story elements.
• K.RL.3 With support, describe the characters, settings and main events of a story.
• K.RL.4 With help, ask and answer questions about new words and phrases, including ones with several meanings.
• K.RL.5 With support, explain how fiction differs from informational text.
• K.RL.6 With support, identify why the author wrote a story.
• K.RL.7 With support, explain how pictures relate to the text.
• K.RL.9 With help, compare texts that share a similar theme.
• K.RL.10 By year end, read and make sense of many kinds of literary texts.
  • a. Show listening comprehension of complex texts.
  • b. Read and understand grade-level text.
  • c. With support, choose texts for enjoyment, interest and schoolwork.

Reading Informational Text (RI)

• K.RI.1 With help, ask and answer questions about the main ideas and details of a read-aloud.
• K.RI.2 With help, name the main topic and retell important details.
• K.RI.3 With support, describe links among people, events, ideas or information in a text.
• K.RI.4 With help, ask and answer questions about words in a text that are new.
• K.RI.5 With support, identify different text features.
• K.RI.6 With support, identify why the author wrote a text.
• K.RI.7 With support, describe how visuals relate to the text.
• K.RI.8 With support, identify details an author gives to support opinions.
• K.RI.9 With help, compare texts about one topic.
• K.RI.10 By year end, read and make sense of many kinds of informational texts.
  • a. Show listening comprehension of complex texts.
  • b. Read and understand grade-level text.
  • c. With support, choose texts for enjoyment, interest and schoolwork.

Reading Foundational Skills (RF)

• K.RF.1 Show basic understanding of print concepts and features.
  • a. Follow text left to right and top to bottom.
  • b. Know letters stand for sounds that combine into words.
  • c. Know spaces separate words.
  • d. Recognize and name all capital and lowercase letters.
  • e. Identify a book's front cover, back cover and title page.
  • f. Know what the author and the illustrator do.
• K.RF.2 Show phonological and phonemic awareness.
  • a. Blend and segment words.
  • b. Blend, segment and delete syllables.
  • c. Recognize, make and sort rhymes.
  • d. Blend, segment and delete onsets and rimes.
  • e. Isolate sounds at the start, end and middle of words.
  • f. Blend and segment words of 2–3 sounds, without consonant blends.
• K.RF.3 Use phonics and word analysis to decode and spell words.
  • a. Recognize all capital and lowercase letters.
  • b. Link predictable consonant and short vowel sounds to their letters.
  • c. Know that graphemes stand for phonemes.
  • d. Use letter–sound knowledge to decode and spell CVC and open one-syllable words.
  • e. Read grade-level high-frequency words.
• K.RF.4 Read grade-level text accurately and fluently enough to understand it.
  • a. Read with purpose and understanding.
  • b. Read aloud accurately, at a suitable rate and with expression over repeated readings.
  • c. Check accuracy and understanding while reading, rereading as needed.

Language (L)

• K.L.1 Use standard English grammar and usage when speaking.
  • a. Use common nouns and verbs to make complete sentences.
  • b. Use regular plural nouns.
  • c. Use question words in complete sentences.
  • d. Expand sentences with describing words in shared activities.
• K.L.2 Use standard English conventions when writing.
  • a. Print all capital and lowercase letters correctly.
  • b. Capitalize the first word of a sentence and the pronoun I.
  • c. Recognize end punctuation.
  • d. Spell simple words phonetically using consonant and short vowel sounds.
• K.L.4 Work out or clarify unknown and multiple-meaning words from kindergarten reading and content.
  • a. Spot new meanings of familiar words and use them accurately.
  • b. With guidance, use context to clarify unknown words.
• K.L.5 With support, explore word relationships and shades of meaning.
  • a. Identify how a group of objects or concept words relate.
  • b. Understand words with similar and opposite meanings.
  • c. Find real-life links between words and how they are used.
• K.L.6 Learn and use grade-level words in conversation, reading and learning activities.

Writing (W)

• K.W.1 Use drawing, dictating and writing to give an opinion and a reason.
• K.W.2 Use drawing, dictating and writing to name a topic and share a fact.
• K.W.3 Use drawing, dictating and writing to tell a story with events in order, a character and a setting.
• K.W.4 Identify the purpose of a writing task.
• K.W.5 Answer classmates' or adults' questions and suggestions by adding detail.
• K.W.6 With guidance, explore digital tools to produce and publish writing.
• K.W.7 Take part in shared research and writing projects.
• K.W.8 With guidance, respond to a prompt by drawing, dictating and writing, using experience or given sources.
• K.W.10 Write regularly by drawing, dictating and writing.

Speaking and Listening (SL)

• K.SL.1 Join group talks with classmates and adults about kindergarten topics and texts.
  • a. Follow agreed rules for discussion.
  • b. Keep a conversation going through several exchanges.
• K.SL.2 Check understanding by asking questions and asking for clarification.
• K.SL.3 Ask and answer questions to clarify or learn more about a topic.
• K.SL.4 With support, describe familiar people, places, things and events with added details.
• K.SL.5 Add drawings, digital media or other visuals to give more detail.
• K.SL.6 Speak loudly and clearly enough to share thoughts, feelings and ideas.