California Pre-Kindergarten ELA Standards

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Listening and Speaking

• 1.0 Children understand and use language to communicate with others effectively.
  • 1.1 Use language to communicate with others in familiar social situations for a variety of basic purposes, including describing, requesting, commenting, acknowledging, greeting, and rejecting.
  • 1.2 Speak clearly enough to be understood by familiar adults and children.
  • 1.3 Use accepted language and style during communication with familiar adults and children.
  • 1.4 Use language to construct short narratives that are real or fictional.
• 2.0 Children develop age-appropriate vocabulary.
  • 2.1 Understand and use accepted words for objects, actions, and attributes encountered frequently in both real and symbolic contexts.
  • 2.2 Understand and use accepted words for categories of objects encountered and used frequently in everyday life.
  • 2.3 Understand and use simple words that describe the relations between objects.
• 3.0 Children develop age-appropriate grammar.
  • 3.1 Understand and use increasingly complex and longer sentences, including sentences that combine two phrases or two to three concepts to communicate ideas.
  • 3.2 Understand and typically use age-appropriate grammar, including accepted word forms, such as subject-verb agreement, progressive tense, regular past tense, regular plurals, pronouns, and possessives.

Reading

• 1.0 Children begin to recognize print conventions and understand that print carries meaning.
  • 1.1 Begin to display appropriate book-handling behaviors and begin to recognize print conventions.
  • 1.2 Recognize print as something that can be read.
• 2.0 Phonological Awareness
• 3.0 Children begin to recognize letters of the alphabet.
  • 3.1 Recognize the first letter of own name.
  • 3.2 Match some letter names to their printed form.
• 4.0 Children demonstrate understanding of age-appropriate text read aloud.
  • 4.1 Demonstrate knowledge of main characters or events in a familiar story (e.g., who, what, where) through answering questions (e.g., recall and simple inferencing), retelling, or creating artwork.
  • 4.2 Demonstrate knowledge from informational text through labeling, describing, playing, or creating artwork.
• 5.0 Children demonstrate motivation for literacy activities.
  • 5.1 Demonstrate enjoyment of literacy and literacy-related activities.
  • 5.2 Engage in routines associated with literacy activities.

Writing

• 1.0 Children demonstrate emergent writing skills.
  • 1.1 Experiment with grasp and body position using a variety of drawing and writing tools.
  • 1.2 Write using scribbles that are different from pictures.
  • 1.3 Write marks to represent own name.