District of Columbia Pre-Kindergarten ELA Standards

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9 Demonstrates understanding of print concepts

• Print Concepts
  • 9a With guidance and support, demonstrates a basic understanding of the organization and features of print
  • 9b Recognizes that spoken language can be written and read and that written language can be read and spoken
  • 9c Recognizes and names 10 or more letters of the alphabet

10 Demonstrates comprehension of printed materials read aloud

• Literature and Informational Texts Key Ideas and Details
  • 10a With prompting and support, asks and answers questions about key details of a story, poem or informational text read aloud
  • 10b With prompting and support, retells a sequence of events from a familiar story read aloud or important facts from an informational text read aloud
  • 10c With prompting and support, identifies the characters and settings of a story read aloud
• Craft and Structure
  • 10d With prompting and support, asks and answers questions about unfamiliar words in a story, poem or informational text read aloud
  • 10e With prompting and support, names the author and illustrator of a familiar book and defines the role of each in telling the story
  • 10f Recognizes familiar books by their covers
• Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
  • 10g After hearing a story read aloud, looks at the illustrations and with prompting and support, explains the part of the story that each illustration depicts
  • 10h After hearing an informational text read aloud, looks at illustrations and explains important ideas in the picture

11 Hears and discriminates the sounds of English and/or home language(s).

• Phonological Awareness/Phonics and Word Recognition
  • 11a Shows awareness of separate words in a sentence
  • 11b Decides whether two words rhyme
  • 11c Identifies the initial sound of a spoken word and with guidance and support, thinks of several other words that have the same initial sound
  • 11d Shows awareness of separate syllables in a word

12 Writes letters and words

• Production and Distribution of Writing
  • 12a Begins to invent spelling while writing to convey a message with prompting and support

13 Understands the purpose of writing and drawing

• Text Types and Purposes
  • 13a Dictates words or draws to express a preference or opinion about a topic
  • 13b Uses a combination of dictating and drawing to tell some information about a topic
  • 13c Uses a combination of dictation and drawing to tell a real or imagined story