Kindergarten ELA (Wisconsin Standards)

Reading (R)

• R.K.1 With prompting and support, ask questions about a text and answer them.
• R.K.2 With prompting and support, retell stories and share key details from a text.
• R.K.3 With prompting and support, name characters, settings and major events or key information in a text.
• R.K.4 With prompting and support, find words that show feelings or belong to a subject in a text.
• R.K.5 Tell literary texts from informational texts.
• R.K.6 Explain what the author and the illustrator each do to present a text's ideas.
• R.K.7 With prompting and support, describe how illustrations relate to the text.
• R.K.8 With prompting and support, find information that supports ideas in a text.
• R.K.9 With prompting and support, compare two texts and see how texts mirror the reader's culture and other cultures.

Reading Foundational Skills (RF)

• RF.K.1 Show understanding of how print is organized: left to right, letters for spoken words, spaces and letter names.
• RF.K.2 Show awareness of spoken words, syllables and sounds: rhyme, syllables, onsets and rimes, and single sounds.
• RF.K.3 Know and use kindergarten phonics and word analysis to decode words, including common sight words.
• RF.K.4 Read beginning-reader books with a purpose and understand them.

Writing (W)

• W.K.1 Use drawing, dictating and writing to produce reflective, formal and creative pieces for low- and high-stakes purposes.
• W.K.2 Use drawing, dictating and writing to produce opinion, informative and narrative pieces.
• W.K.3 Use drawing, dictating and writing with a sense of structure and an attempted introduction.
• W.K.4 With adult support, compose writing whose development and organization suit the task and are culturally sustaining.
• W.K.5 With adult support, respond to peers' questions and add details to strengthen writing.
• W.K.6 With adult support, publish writing with digital tools with peers and learn to print letters.
• W.K.7 Join group research-and-writing projects, e.g. books by a favorite author.
• W.K.8 With adult support, recall information from experience or use provided sources to answer a question.
• W.K.9 With adult support, recall facts from texts to research characters, setting and key details.

Speaking and Listening (SL)

• SL.K.1 With support, talk with a range of classmates and adults about kindergarten topics and texts in small and large groups.
• SL.K.2 With support, ask and answer questions about important details in a read-aloud or other media.
• SL.K.3 Ask and answer questions to get help, find information or clarify something.
• SL.K.4 With support, talk about familiar people, places, objects and events.
• SL.K.5 With support, make or use visual displays to support descriptions.

Language (L)

• L.K.1 Understand how language works in different cultures and contexts and use this to understand and make effective choices (kindergarten).
• L.K.2 Work out unknown and multiple-meaning words using context, word parts, references and word-solving strategies (kindergarten).
• L.K.3 Show understanding of figurative language, word relationships and shades of meaning (kindergarten).
• L.K.4 Build vocabulary alone and with others, including cultural, academic and subject words, and use words suited to the situation (kindergarten).
• L.K.5 Use standardized English grammar and usage when suitable, knowing when and where it fits (kindergarten).
• L.K.6 Use standardized capitalization, punctuation and spelling in writing when suitable, knowing when it fits (kindergarten).