Georgia Pre-Kindergarten ELA Standards

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LD 1 Children will develop skills in listening for the purpose of comprehension

• LD 1 a Listens to and follows spoken directions
• LD 1 b Responds to questions
• LD 1 c Listens to recordings and shows understanding through body language or by interacting appropriately.
• LD 1 d Listens to stories read aloud and shows understanding through body language or by interacting appropriately
• LD 1 e Begins to distinguish fact from fiction in a read aloud text
• LD 1 f Makes predictions from pictures and titles
• LD 1 g Becomes increasingly familiar with the structure of stories (characters, events, plot, resolution of story)

LD 2 Children will learn to discriminate the sounds of language (phonological awareness)

• LD 2 a Differentiates sounds that are the same and different
• LD 2 b Repeats rhymes, poems and finger plays
• LD 2 c Recognizes the same beginning sounds in different words (alliteration)
• LD 2 d Shows growing ability to hear and discriminate separate syllables in words
• LD 2 e Creates and invents words by substituting one sound for another

LD 3 Children will develop an understanding of new vocabulary introduced in conversations, activities, stories or books

• LD 3 a Increases vocabulary through everyday communication
• LD 3 b Uses new vocabulary words correctly within the context of play or other classroom experiences
• LD 3 c Connects new vocabulary with prior educational experiences

LD 4 Children will develop and expand expressive language skills (speaking)

• LD 4 a Uses language for a variety of purposes
• LD 4 b Engages in conversations with adults and children
• LD 4 c Uses complete sentences of increasing length in conversation
• LD 4 d Uses language to pretend or create

LD 5 Children will begin to develop age-appropriate strategies that will assist in reading

• LD 5 a Demonstrates an interest in books or stories
• LD 5 b Discusses books or stories read aloud
• LD 5 c Exhibits book-handling skills
• LD 5 d Associates symbols with objects, concepts and functions
• LD 5 e Recognizes that print represents spoken words
• LD 5 f Dramatizes, tells and retells poems and stories
• LD 5 g Identifies some individual letters of the alphabet
• LD 5 h Shares books and engages in pretend-reading with other children
• LD 5 i Recognizes books as a source of information
• LD 5 j Connects information and events in books to real-life experiences
• LD 5 k Participates in oral reading activities
• LD 5 l Recognizes that sentences are composed of separate words
• LD 5 m Uses pictures or symbols to identify concepts

LD 6 Children will begin to develop age-appropriate writing skills

• LD 6 a Experiments with a variety of writing tools, materials and surfaces
• LD 6 b Uses scribbles, shapes, pictures and letters, or other forms of writing
  • Stages of writing:
• LD 6 c Understands that print is used to communicate ideas and information (writing for a purpose)
• LD 6 d Begins to dictate words, phrases, and sentences to an adult recording on paper
• LD 6 e Uses left-to-right patterns