Hawaii Pre-Kindergarten ELA Standards

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Reading Literature

• Key Ideas and Details
  • LA.KE.c Identify story-related problems, events, and resolutions during conversations with adults.
  • LA.KE.g With prompting and support, retell a simple story in sequence.
  • LA.KE.i Identify characters and recall major events in a story.
• Craft and Structure
  • LA.KE.j Respond appropriately to statements, questions, vocabulary, and stories.
  • LA.KE.k Begin to demonstrate an understanding of the differences between fantasy (make-believe) and reality.
  • LA.KE.l Know some features of a book (title, author, illustrator).
• Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
  • LA.KE.m Pretend to read, using intonation and referring to images in the illustrations.
  • LA.KE.n Identify story-related problems, events, and resolutions during conversations with adult.
• Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity
  • LA.KE.n Identify story-related problems, events, and resolutions during conversations with adult.

Reading Informational

• Key Ideas and Details
  • LA.KE.o Identify factual information and events during conversations with adult.
• Craft and Structure
  • LA.KE.j Respond appropriately to statements, questions, vocabulary, and stories.
  • LA.KE.l Know some features of a book (title, author, illustrator).
• Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
  • LA.KE.m Pretend to read, using intonation and referring to images in the illustrations.
  • LA.KE.j Respond appropriately to statements, questions, vocabulary, and stories.
  • LA.KE.f Use knowledge of everyday experiences to apply to a new situation.
• Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity
  • LA.KE.p Listen actively as an individual and as a member of a group to a variety of age-appropriate informational texts read aloud.

Reading Foundational

• Print Concepts
  • LA.KE.q Practice tracking from top to bottom and left to right with scaffolding.
  • LA.KE.r Identify parts of a book (e.g. front cover, back cover, spine, etc.).
  • LA.KE.s Show understanding that sequence of letters represents a sequence of spoken sounds (e.g. asks how to spell a word).
  • LA.KE.t With guidance and support, segment words in a simple sentence by clapping and naming number of words in a sentence.
  • LA.KE.u Recognize and name 10 upper and lower case letters.
• Phonological Awareness
  • LA.KE.v With adult support, generate rhyming words.
  • LA.KE.w Clap out the syllables in own name.
  • LA.KE.x With guidance and support, match the initial sound of spoken words.
• Phonics and Word Recognition
  • LA.KE.y Associate 3 or more letters with their sounds.
  • LA.KE.z Identify some letters in own name.
  • LA.KE.aa Recognize and “read” familiar words or environmental print.
• Fluency
  • LAL.KE.m Pretend to read, using intonation and referring to images in the illustrations.

Writing

• Text Types and Purposes
  • LA.KE.bb Add detail to drawings and other products with simple descriptive words, letters or letter forms.
  • LA.KE.cc Plan and then use drawings, constructions, movements, and dramatizations to represent ideas.
  • LA.KE.dd Tell detailed stories that refer to other times and places.
  • LA.KE.ee Begin to use sound spelling (e.g. use initial sound of word to write word; write several sounds heard in word).
• Production and Distribution of Writing
  • LA.KE.d Begin to think problems through, considering several possibilities and analyzing results.
  • LA.KE.h Experiment with a variety of writing tools and surfaces.
• Research to Build and Present Knowledge
  • LA.KE.a Show eagerness to learn about a variety of topics and ideas.
  • LA.KE.f Use knowledge of everyday experiences to apply to a new situation.
  • LA.KE.ff Recall 3 or 4 items removed from view.

Language

• Conventions of Standard English
  • LA.KE.ii When Speaking: Use a variety of nouns, verbs, and descriptive phrases in meaningful contexts (vocabulary).
  • LA.KE.jj When Speaking: Use a variety of sentence structures from simple to more complex in meaningful contexts (sentence structure).
  • LA.KE.cc Plan and then use drawings, constructions, movements, and dramatizations to represent ideas.
• Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
  • LA.KE.kk Describe and tell the use of many familiar items.
  • LA.KE.ll With guidance and support, use word relationships to sort, classify, and serialize (puts in a pattern) objects using attributes, such as color, shape, or size.
  • LA.KE.j Respond appropriately to statements, questions, vocabulary, and stories.
  • LA.KE.ff Recall 3 or 4 items removed from view.