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CONTENT STANDARD 1

1. Reading

A. Word Analysis, Fluency, and Systematic Vocabulary Development

Students will know about letters, words, and sounds. They apply this knowledge in reading simple sentences.

B. Reading Comprehension

Students identify the basic facts and ideas in what they have read, heard, or viewed. They use comprehension strategies (e.g., generating and responding to questions, comparing information received to prior knowledge).

C. Literary Response and Analysis

Students listen and respond to stories based on well-known characters, themes, plots, and settings.

Performance Indicators

Concepts About Print:

1.A.K.1 Identify the front cover, back cover, and title page of a book.

1.A.K.2 Follow words from left-to-right and top-to-bottom on the printed page.

1.A.K.3 Explain that printed materials provide information.

1.A.K.4 Recognize that sentences in print are made up of separate words.

1.A.K.5 Distinguish letters from words.

1.A.K.6 Recognize and name all upper-case and lower-case letters.

Phonemic Awareness

1.A.K.7 Track (move sequentially from sound to sound), and represent the number, sameness/difference, and order of two and three isolated phonemes (e.g., f, s, th/, /j, d, j/).

1.A.K.8 Track (move sequentially from sound to sound), and represent changes in simple syllables and words with two and three sounds as one sound is added, substituted, omitted, shifted, or repeated (e.g., vowel-consonant, consonant-vowel, or consonant-vowel-consonant).

1.A.K.9 Blend vowel-consonant sounds orally to make words or syllables.

1.A.K.10 Identify and produce rhyming words in response to an oral prompt.

1.A.K.11 Distinguish orally stated one-syllable words and separate into beginning or ending sounds.

1.A.K.12 Track auditorily each word in a sentence and each syllable in a word.

1.A.K.13 Count the number of sounds in syllables and syllables in words.

Decoding and Word Recognition

1.A.K.14 Match all consonant and short-vowel sounds to appropriate letters.

1.A.K.15 Read simple one-syllable and high-frequency words (i.e., sight words).

1.A.K.16 Understand that as letters of words change, so do the sound (i.e., the alphabetic principle).

Vocabulary and Concept Development

1.A.K.17 Identify and sort common words from within basic categories (e.g., colors, shapes, foods).

1.A.K.18 Describe common objects and events in both general and specific language.

Structural Features of Informational Materials

1.B.K.1 Locate title, table of contents, name of author and illustrator.

Comprehension and Analysis of Grade-Level-Appropriate Text

1.B.K.2 Use pictures and context to make predictions about story content.

1.B.K.3 Connect to life experiences the information and events in texts.

1.B.K.4 Retell familiar stories.

1.B.K.5 Ask and answer questions about essential elements of text.

Narratives Analysis of Grade-Level-Appropriate Text:

1.C.K.1 Distinguish fantasy from realistic text.

1.C.K.2 Identify different text genres, including everyday print materials (e.g., storybooks, poems, newspapers, signs, labels).

1.C.K.3 Identify characters, settings and key events.

CONTENT STANDARD 2

2. Writing

Students write words and brief sentences that are legible.

Performance Indicators

Organization and Focus

2.A.K.1 Use letters and phonetically-spelled words to write about experiences, stories, people, objects, or events.

2.A.K.2 Write consonant-vowel-consonant words (i.e., demonstrate the alphabetic principle).

2.A.K.3 Write by moving from left-to-right and top-to-bottom.

Penmanship

2.A.K.4 Write upper- and lower-case letters independently, attending to form and spatial alignment.

CONTENT STANDARD 3

3. Written and Oral English Language Conventions

Students write and speak with a command of standard English conventions.

Performance Indicators

Sentence Structure

3.K.1 Recognize and use complete, coherent sentences when speaking.

Spelling

3.K.2 Spell independently using pre- to early-phonetic knowledge, sounds of the alphabet, and knowledge of letter names.

CONTENT STANDARD 4

4. Listening and Speaking

Students listen and respond to oral communications. They speak in clear and coherent sentences.

Performance Indicators

Comprehension

4.A.K.1 Understand and follow one- and two-step oral directions.

4.A.K.2 Share information and ideas, speaking audibly in complete, coherent sentences.

Revised November 2000

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