Kindergarten Literacy Content Standards

• Kindergarten students are expected to:
  • Listening
    • Give attention to the speaker
    • Listen without interrupting
    • Indicate understanding by asking questions and/or responding to the questions of others
    • Follow oral directions (at least two steps)
  • Speaking
    • Direct comments to the audience
    • Stay on topic
    • Participate in class discussions
    • Respectfully take turns when speaking and listening
    • Recognize and use complete, coherent sentences when expressing wants, needs, and ideas to adults and peers
    • Connect to life experiences the information and events in texts
    • Use new vocabulary and language
    • Participate in oral language activities (e.g. songs, poems)
    • Connect to life experiences the information and events in texts
    • Retell a familiar story
  • Reading with and by children
    • Begin to become familiar with and use a variety of texts (e.g. poems, fiction, nonfiction)
    • Know parts of a book and their functions (e.g. title, author, illustrator, beginning, middle, end)
    • Understand that print as well as pictures convey the message
    • Know how print works (left to right, top to bottom)
    • Recognizes that sentences in print are made up of separate words
    • Distinguish letters from words and numbers
    • Make predictions using pictures and story context
    • Identify similarities and differences among stories
    • Sequence events
    • Recite (“reads”) familiar text using memory and picture cues in repetitive and predictable books (eg. Brown Bear, Brown Bear)
    • Participate in teacher directed discussions about story elements (e.g. setting, plot, character)
    • Be introduced to punctuation (e.g. period, exclamation point, question mark)
    • Identify and produce rhyming words in response to an oral prompt
    • Blend vowel-consonant sounds orally to make one syllable words (c/a/t=cat)
    • Distinguish beginning and ending sounds in one syllable words
    • Clap to identify syllables
    • Recognize some environmental print and sight words (e.g. stop, exit, mom, cat)
    • Recognize and name upper and lower case letters
    • Demonstrate knowledge of letter-sound relationship
  • Writing
    • Write first name using upper and lower case letters
    • Write upper and lower case letters attending to form and spatial alignment
    • Hear and write letters based on the sound(s) they represent
    • Write words, with assistance, using phonetic (temporary) spelling
    • Begin to use conventions of written language (e.g. left to right, top to bottom)
    • Draw, dictate and/or write individual stories
    • Contribute to group stories, charts and letters

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