Kindergarten Essential Standards

R.F.K.1 Demonstrate understanding of the organization and basic features of print.

• R.F.K.1 A Follow words from left to right, top to bottom and page by page.
• R.F.K.1 B Recognize that spoken words are represented in written language by specific sequences of letters.
• R.F.K.1 C Understand that words are separated by space in print.
• R.F.K.1 D Recognize and name all upper and lowercase letters of the alphabet.

R.F.K.2 Demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds (phonemes).

• R.F.K.2 A Recognize and produce rhyming words.
• R.F.K.2 B Count, pronounce, blend, and segment syllables in spoken words.
• R.F.K.2 C Blend segment onsets and rimes of single-syllable spoken words.
• R.F.K.2 D Isolate and pronounce the initial, medial vowel and final sound (phonemes) in three-phoneme (CVC) words. This does not include CVC's ending with /I/, /r/, or /x/.
• R.F.K.2 E Add or substitute individual sounds (phonemes) in simple one-syllable words to make new words.

R.F.K.3 Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.

• R.F.K.3 A Demonstrate basic knowledge of one-to-one letter-sound correspondences by producing the primary sound or many of the most frequent sounds for each consonant.
• R.F.K.3 B Associate the long and short vowel sounds with the common spelling (graphemes) for the five major vowels.
• R.F.K.3 C Read common high-frequency words by sight (e.g. the, of, to, you, she, my, is, are, do, does).
• R.F.K.3 D Distinguish between similarly spelled words by identifying the sounds of the letters that differ.

R.F.K.4 Read emergent-reader texts with purpose and understanding.

RL.K.1 With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text.

RL.K.2 With prompting and support, retell familiar stories including key details.

RL.K.3 With prompting and support, identify characters, setting and major events in a story.

RL.K.10 Actively engage in group reading activities with purpose and understanding.

WK.1 Use a combination of drawing, dictating and writing to compose opinion pieces in which they tell a reader the topic or the name of the book they are writing about and state an opinion or preference about the topic or book e.g. My favorite book is...

WK.2 Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to compose informative, explanatory texts in which they name what they are writing about and supply some information about the topic.

WK3 Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to narrate a single event or several loosely linked events, tell about the events in the order in which they occurred, and provide a reaction to what happened.

K.CC.A.1 Count to 100 by ones and by tens.

K.CC.A.2 Count forward beginning from a given number within the known sequence (instead of having to begin at 1).

K.CC.A.3 Write numbers from 0 to 20. Represent a number of objects with a written numeral 0-20 (with 0 representing a count of no objects.)

K.CC.B.4 Understand the relationship between numbers and quantities; connect counting to cardinality.

K.CC.B.5 Count to answer "how many?" questions about as many as 20 things arranged in a line, a rectangular array, or a circle, or as many as 10 things in a scattered configuration; given a number from 1-20, count out that many objects.

K.CC.C.6 Identify whether the number of objects in one group is greater than, less than, or equal to the number of objects in another group, e.g., by using matching and counting strategies.

K.OA.A.1 Represent addition and subtraction with objects, fingers, mental images, drawings, sounds (e.g., claps), acting out situations, verbal explanations, expressions, or equations.

K.OA.A.2 Solve addition and subtraction word problems, and add and subtract within 10, e.g., by using objects or drawings to represent the problem.

K.OA.A.4 For any number from 1 to 9, find the number that makes 10 when added to the given number, e.g., by using objects or drawings, and record the answer with a drawing or equation.

K.OA.A.5 Fluently add and subtract within 5.

K.G.A.1 Describe objects in the environment using names of shapes, and describe the relative positions of these objects using terms such as above, below, beside, in front of, behind, and next to.