Kindergarten ELA Missouri standards Standards

In speech and written form, apply standard English grammar to:

Identify naming words (nouns) and action words (verbs).

Use plural nouns when speaking.

Express time and space.

Demonstrate the use of complete sentences in shared language activities.

Use question words in sentences.

In written text:

Print in upper and lower case letters.

Recognize that a sentence ends with punctuation marks.

Capitalize own first and last name.

Capitalize first word in a sentence.

Capitalize the pronoun I.

Write and name the printed letters that match the sound.

Use inventive spelling with beginning, final, and medial sounds.

Write and name letters for consonant and vowel sounds.

Use correct spelling of own first and last names.

With assistance, develop and demonstrate reading skills in response to read alouds by:

Predicting what might happen next in a text based on the cover, title, and illustrations.

Asking and responding to questions about texts read aloud.

Retelling main ideas or important facts from a read aloud or familiar story.

Connecting the information and events of a text to experiences.

Recognizing beginning, middle, and end.

With assistance, develop an understanding of vocabulary by:

Identifying and sorting pictures of objects into conceptual categories.

Demonstrating understanding of opposites (antonyms).

Distinguishing meaning between verbs describing the same action.

Using a picture dictionary to find words.

Use words and phrases acquired through conversations, reading and being read to and responding to texts.

With assistance, determine connection between:

Text to self (text ideas and own experiences).

Text to text (text ideas including similarities and differences in fiction and nonfiction).

Read independently for sustained periods of time by:

Engaging with text as developmentally appropriate.

With assistance, read, infer and draw conclusions to:

Identify elements of a story, including setting, character, and key events.

Retell a main event from a stories read aloud and familiar stories.

Recognize sensory details and reoccurring phrases.

Recognize different types of texts.

Name author and illustrator of a story and describe how each is telling the story.

Compare and contrast adventures of characters in familiar stories.

Ask and answer questions about unknown words in text.

With assistance, read, infer and draw conclusions to:

Respond to rhythm and rhyme through identifying a regular beat and similarities in word sounds.

With assistance, read, infer and draw conclusions to:

Identify characters in a puppet play or performance by actors.

With assistance, read, infer and draw conclusions to:

Identify the topic and details in an expository text heard and/or read referring to the words and/or illustrations.

Use titles and illustrations to make predictions about text.

Identify text features.

Identify the meaning of environmental print.

With assistance, read, infer and draw conclusions to:

Respond to examples of sensory details.

With assistance, read, infer and draw conclusions to:

Ask and answer questions to clarify meaning.

Identify basic similarities and differences between two texts on the same topic.

Name the main topic and recall key details of the text.

Ask and answer questions about unknown words in a text.

With assistance, develop an awareness of media literacy by:

Identifying different forms of media.

Identifying techniques used in media.

Develop print awareness in the reading process by:

Identifying all upper and lower case letters.

Sequencing the letters of the alphabet.

Demonstrating books are read left to right, top to bottom.

Demonstrating that written words are made up of different letters.

Knowing that a sentence is comprised of a group of words separated by spaces.

Demonstrating one-to-one correspondence between spoken words and written words.

Develop phonemic awareness in the reading process by:

Identifying sounds in spoken words.

Producing rhymes in response to spoken words.

Distinguishing orally presented rhyming pairs of words from non-rhyming pairs.

Recognizing spoken alliteration or groups of words that begin with the same onset or initial sound.

Blending spoken onsets and rimes to form simple words.

Blending spoken phonemes to form one syllable words.

Isolating the initial, medial and final sounds in spoken words.

Segmenting spoken words into 2 or 3 phonemes.

Develop phonics in the reading process by:

Producing and writing letter(s) for most short vowel and consonant sounds.

Reading high frequency words.

Blending letter sounds to decode simple words.

Recognizing that new words can be created when letters are changed, added, or deleted and using letter sound knowledge to write simple messages and words.

Read with support, appropriate texts with purpose and understanding.

Develop and apply effective listening skills and strategies in formal and informal settings by:

Following classroom listening rules.

Continue a conversation through multiple exchanges.

Following one-step instructions, according to classroom expectations.

Develop and apply effective listening skills and strategies in formal and informal settings by:

Demonstrating active listening, according to classroom expectations.

Speak clearly using conventions of language when presenting individually or with a group by:

Taking turns speaking, according to classroom expectations.

Continue a conversation through multiple exchanges.

Confirming comprehension by retelling information and asking appropriate questions based on read-alouds or other media.

Speak clearly, audibly using conventions of language when presenting individually or with a group by:

Describing personal experiences using a prop, picture, or other visual aide.

Speaking in complete sentences.

Follow a writing process, with assistance, to generate a writing plan through:

Using pictures, oral language or written letters and/or words.

Appropriate to genre type, develop a draft from prewriting by:

Sequencing the actions or details through letters, words, and pictures.

Reread, revise, and edit drafts, with assistance from adults/peers, to:

Respond to questions and suggestions, adding details to strengthen writing.

Edit by leaving spaces between words in a sentence.

With assistance from adults/peers:

Explore a variety of conventional/digital tools to produce and publish writing.

With assistance, draw/write opinion texts that:

Use a combination of drawing and/or writing to tell an opinion about a topic or text being studied.

Give logical reasons for suggesting that others follow a particular course of action or line of thinking.

Use words that are related to the topic.

With assistance, draw or write informative/explanatory texts that:

Use a combination of drawing and/or writing to name and inform about a topic or a text they are learning in school.

Use words that are related to the topic.

With assistance, draw or write fiction or non-fiction narratives and poems that:

Use a combination of drawing and/or writing to narrate a story or experience the student has had or has imagined.

Tell the reader about a character or personal event.

Place events in the order they occurred.

Use words that are related to the topic.

Provide a reaction to what happened in the events.

With assistance, apply research process to:

Generate a list of open-ended questions about topics of class interest.

Decide what sources or people in the classroom, school, library, or home can answer their questions.

Gather evidence from sources.

Use pictures in conjunction with writing when documenting research.

Language

Communicate using conventions of English language.

Grammar

Punctuation, Capitalization, Spelling

Reading

Develop and apply skills to the reading process.

Comprehension

Vocabulary

Making Connections

Independent Text

Develop and apply skills and strategies to comprehend, analyze and evaluate fiction, poetry and drama from a variety of cultures and times.

Fiction

Poetry

Drama

Develop and apply skills and strategies to comprehend, analyze and evaluate nonfiction (e.g., narrative, information/explanatory, opinion, persuasive, argumentative) from a variety of cultures and times.

Text Features

Literary Techniques

Text Structures

Comprehend and analyze words, images, graphics, and sounds in various media and digital forms to impact meaning.

Digital and Media Literacy

Reading Foundations

Understand how English is written and read.

Print Awareness

Understand how English is written and read.

Phonemic Awareness

Understand how English is written and read.

Phonics

Understand how English is written and read.

Fluency

Speaking/Listening

Listen for a purpose.

Purpose

Listen for entertainment.

Entertainment

Speak effectively in collaborative discussions.

Collaborative Discussions

Speak effectively when presenting.

Presenting

Writing

Apply writing process to develop a text for audience and purpose.

Prewriting

Draft

Revise/Edit

Produce/Publish and Share Writing

Compose well-developed writing texts for audience and purpose.

Opinion/Argumentative

Informative/Explanatory

Narrative/Literary

Gather, analyze, evaluate and use information from a variety of sources.

Research Process

Speaking/Listening

Language

Writing

Foundational Skills

Reading (Literary and Informational)

In written text, apply standard English grammar.

Demonstrate the use of complete sentences in shared language activities

In written text, apply punctuation, capitalization and spelling.

Print in upper and lowercase letters

Recognize that a sentence ends with punctuation marks

Capitalize first word in a sentence

With assistance, develop and demonstrate comprehension-reading skills in response to read alouds.

Asking and responding to questions about texts read aloud

With assistance, develop an understanding of vocabulary.

Using words and phrases acquired through conversations, reading and being read to, and responding to texts

Read independently for sustained periods of time.

With assistance, read, infer and draw conclusions using fiction texts including poetry and drama.

Identify elements of a story, including setting, characters, and key events

With assistance, read, infer and draw conclusions using text features in nonfiction texts.

Identify the topic and details in an expository text heard and/or read, referring to the words and/or illustrations

With assistance, read, infer and draw conclusions using text structures in nonfiction texts.

Name the main topic and recall key details of the text

Develop print awareness in the reading process.

Identifying all upper- and lower-case letters

Demonstrating that books are read left to right, top to bottom

Demonstrating one-to-one correspondence between spoken words and written words

Develop phonemic awareness in the reading process.

Identifying sounds in spoken words

Produce rhymes in response to spoken words

Distinguishing orally presented rhyming pairs of words from nonrhyming pairs

Blending spoken onsets and rimes to form simple words

Blending spoken phonemes to form one-syllable words

Isolating the initial, medial, and final sounds in spoken words

Segmenting spoken words into two or three phonemes

Develop phonics in the reading process.

Producing and writing letter(s) for most short vowel and consonant sounds

Reading high-frequency words

Blending letter sounds to decode simple words

Recognizing that new words can be created when letters are changed, added, or deleted and using letter-sound knowledge to write simple messages and words

Speak clearly using conventions of language when presenting individually or with a group.

Confirming comprehension by retelling information and asking appropriate questions based on read-alouds or other media

With assistance, draw/write opinion texts.

With assistance, draw/write informative/explanatory texts.

With assistance, draw/write fiction or non-fiction narratives and poems.