Arkansas Pre-Kindergarten ELA Standards in Language Development

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LD1 Receptive Language

• LD1.1 Understands and responds to language (in child’s home language)
  • LD1.1.1 Vocabulary and Language Comprehension
    • LD1.1.1.1 Understands an increasing number of words for objects (nouns), actions (verbs), and characteristics (adjectives) encountered in real and symbolic contexts (e.g., when playing “doctor” brings another child a stethoscope when he or she asks for it)
    • LD1.1.1.2 Responds to increasingly complex “Who,” “What,” “Why,” and “Where” questions
  • LD1.1.2 Follows Directions
    • LD1.1.2.1 Follows increasingly more detailed, multi-step directions (e.g., “Please put away your markers, put your picture in your cubby, and join us on the carpet”)

LD2 Expressive Language

• LD2.1 Uses increasingly complex vocabulary, grammar, and sentence structure (in child’s home language)
  • LD2.1.1 Expressive Vocabulary
    • LD2.1.1.1 Uses increasingly complex and varied vocabulary words to express needs and describe objects, relationships between objects, emotions, and actions
  • LD2.1.2 Grammar and Sentence Structure
    • LD2.1.2.1 Tells increasingly detailed stories about other times and places, with increasing accuracy in use of past and future tenses
    • LD2.1.2.2 Uses increasingly longer (i.e., at least four to six word sentences) that are increasingly complex (i.e., combining two or three phrases in a sentence)
  • LD2.1.3 Clarity of Communication
    • LD2.1.3.1 Communicates clearly enough to be understood by most people and will usually only mispronounce new and/or unusual words

LD4 English Language Development

• LD4.1 Demonstrates progress in attending to, understanding, and responding to English
  • LD4.1.1 English Language Development
    • LD4.1.1.1 Responds to words, phrases, and directions in English when they are not accompanied by gestures or other visual aids
    • LD4.1.1.2 Demonstrates an understanding of a larger set of words in English (for objects and actions, personal pronouns, and possessives) in both real and pretend activities
    • LD4.1.1.3 Demonstrates an understanding of words in English related to more advanced concepts (e.g., abstract emotions and ideas)
    • LD4.1.1.4 Follows directions that involve a one- or two-step sequence, relying less on contextual cues
  • LD4.1.2 Home Language Development
    • LD4.1.2.1 Continues to make developmentally appropriate progress in receptive language skills in home language, including increasing ability to comprehend and respond to directions in home language
• LD4.2 Demonstrates progress in speaking and expressing self in English
  • LD4.2.1 English Language Development
    • LD4.2.1.1 Demonstrates increasing reliance on verbal communication in English to be understood by others while still making some mistakes
    • LD4.2.1.2 Uses new English vocabulary to share knowledge of concepts, including conversational and academic vocabulary
    • LD4.2.1.3 Sustains a conversation in English with increasingly complex syntax, adding conjunctions, adjectives, adverbs, subject-verb-object patterns, and other more advanced elements of English sentence construction
    • LD4.2.1.4 Expands use of different forms of grammar in English (e.g., plurals; possessive pronouns; simple past-tense verbs), sometimes with errors
    • LD4.2.1.5 Uses “what,” “why,” “how,” “when,” and “where” questions in more complete forms in English, sometimes with mistakes