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Kindergarten Overview
Arizona’s English Language Arts Standards work together in a clear progression from kindergarten through 12th grade. This document provides a brief overview of the skills a student will learn at this grade. Each standard builds on the standard that came before and towards the standard that comes in the next grade level. Each standard is expected to be taught as appropriate for the grade-level. Some standards appear to have similar wording at multiple grade levels; however, it is understood that they are to be applied with increased focus to progressively more challenging texts and tasks.
Reading Standards for Literature
Reading Standards: Foundational Skills
Writing Standards
Writing Foundations Standards
Speaking and Listening Standards
Kindergarten Overview
Arizona’s English Language Arts Standards work together in a clear progression from kindergarten through 12th grade. This document provides a brief overview of the skills a student will learn at this grade. Each standard builds on the standard that came before and towards the standard that comes in the next grade level. Each standard is expected to be taught as appropriate for the grade-level. Some standards appear to have similar wording at multiple grade levels; however, it is understood that they are to be applied with increased focus to progressively more challenging texts and tasks.
Reading Standards for Literature
- Understand key ideas, characters, and setting in a story or poem
- Ask and answer questions about stories and poems, such as who, what, when, where, why and how
- Retell key details from a story or poem
- Ask and answer questions about unknown words in a text
- Ask and answer questions about the world around them
- Retell key details from an informational text
- Distinguish the key features in an informational text
Reading Standards: Foundational Skills
- Understand the organization and basic features of print
- Recognize and orally manipulate sounds
- Blend sounds to read written words with accuracy and fluency
- Read and recognize sight words and different kinds of syllable types
- Use phonics to write words and express thoughts and ideas in writing
- Use foundational skills to access a variety of texts
Writing Standards
- Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to craft texts with different purposes
- Explore digital tools for effective communication
- Generate ideas for writing from reading stories, poetry, and informational texts
- Make connections across content areas into the world around them
Writing Foundations Standards
- Write upper and lowercase manuscript letters to communicate ideas
- Separate simple words into their syllables
- Write frequently used words
Speaking and Listening Standards
- Listen actively
- Speak in complete sentences for effective communication
- Share ideas with peers
- Ask and answer questions to clarify understanding
- Use common nouns and verbs
- Pluralize words by adding “s” or “es”
- Recognize and name end punctuation
- Sort common words into categories
- Use words and phrases learned from conversation and readings