Alaska Pre-Kindergarten ELA Standards

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65 Children demonstrate phonological awareness.

• 60 months to Kindergarten Entry
  • Matches picture with articulated initial letter sound (e.g., matches the picture of a dog with the sound /d/)
  • Begins to recognize vowel sounds, with assistance
  • Begins to blend individual letter sounds to make a new word, with assistance (e.g., “/b/ /a/ /l/… what’s the word? Ball”)
  • Recognizes which segment of a word is left off when spoken aloud, with assistance, (e.g., “picture,” and can recognize the /p/ is left off when “‘icture” is said)
  • Creates a familiar word when given a word and a new beginning sound (e.g., “man” and new beginning sound /f/ creates “fan”)
  • Divides words into syllables with assistance
  • Begins to create and invent words by substituting one sound for another (e.g., “Bandaid/dambaid”)

Language

• 60 Children use receptive communication skills.
  • 60 months to Kindergarten Entry
    • Demonstrates understanding of an increasing number of technical and specialized words (e.g., pediatrician is a child’s doctor, elder is an honored person in the child’s family or community)
    • Understands words that mean the same thing (synonyms) and some words that mean the opposite thing (antonyms)
• 61 Children use expressive communication skills.
  • 60 months to Kindergarten Entry
    • Expresses most feelings and emotions
    • Names some non-present objects using appropriate words
    • Correctly uses words to indicate understanding
    • Defines words, with assistance (e.g., “Firefighters put out fires.”)
• 62 Children demonstrate progression in grammar and syntax.
  • 60 months to Kindergarten Entry
    • Demonstrates beginning skills in using sentences in a logical sequence
    • Uses sentences in home language that show an emergence of grammatical correctness with subject/verb agreement
    • Begins to use verb-tense appropriately with regular verbs, usually
    • Begins to notice when simple sentences do not make sense, with assistance
• 63 Children demonstrate comprehension and meaning in language.
  • 60 months to Kindergarten Entry
    • Follows two-part and three-part directions unfamiliar to the daily routine
    • Uses and understands complex sentences in home language
    • Plays with language (e.g., jokes, riddles, words that sound fun together)
    • Begins to represent a storyline though drawing, acting, or singing, with assistance
    • Retells simple stories in sequence in home language

66 Children demonstrate awareness of letters and symbols.

• 60 months to Kindergarten Entry
  • Demonstrates understanding that letters have a name and a sound
  • Makes many letter/sound matches
  • Identifies a letter for a given letter name, for most letters

67 Children demonstrate awareness of print concepts.

• 60 months to Kindergarten Entry
  • Demonstrates how to follow text in proper order on a written page while reading or following along (e.g., for English, left to right and top to bottom)
  • Recognizes difference between letters and numerals
  • Identifies letters in first name
  • Points to title of book when asked
  • Reads familiar sight words (e. g., names on cereal boxes)
  • Reads own first name and those of some peers
  • Reads some environmental print (e.g., bus)
  • Recognizes when something is written in his/her home language, sometimes

68 Children demonstrate comprehension of printed material and oral stories.

• 60 months to Kindergarten Entry
  • Knows that print conveys meaning
  • Compares stories with real life
  • Uses pictures to infer or predict meaning in text read aloud and/or shared with others
  • Uses strategies such as questioning or predicting to comprehend printed material
  • Recalls a story with some level of detail pertaining to characters and setting

69 Children demonstrate awareness that written materials can be used for a variety of purposes.

• 60 months to Kindergarten Entry
  • Uses picture clues for information (e.g., attempts to predict weather by looking at picture of clouds and rain in newspaper or on television news)
  • Recognizes function of common labels in the environment (e.g., restroom sign)
  • Uses a simple cookbook, map, or similar printed material, with assistance

70 Children demonstrate appreciation and enjoyment of reading.

• 60 months to Kindergarten Entry
  • Enjoys “how-to” books, non-fiction, and reference books
  • Shares and talks about books with peers
  • Looks for books of interest
  • Shows interest in learning to read and makes attempts at ‘reading’ favorite books aloud
  • Sits through entire picture book read aloud without disrupting
  • Has a favorite author/illustrator or series of books by same author
  • “Reads” books by repeating the story he/she has heard an adult tell or by “reading” the pictures