Idaho Pre-Kindergarten ELA Standards in Language

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Language

• Vocabulary
  • 51 Children use receptive vocabulary.
    • Use responses that demonstrate an increased knowledge of specific concepts.
      • Identifies objects by category.
      • Identifies objects by attribute.
      • Responds to who, what, where, why, and when questions.
      • Understands simple time concepts (tonight, tomorrow, yesterday).
      • Understands relationships expressed by if then, or because sentences.
      • Begins to identify shapes and colors.
      • Understands number concepts (one, all, sets).
      • Correctly answers yes and no questions.
      • Responds appropriately to a request (e.g., “Bring me the green towel.”).
      • Has a receptive vocabulary of several hundred words in home language.
      • Distinguishes between real and made-up words.
      • Recognizes and responds to some family and traditional stories and their meanings.
      • Identifies parts of an object.
      • Shows interest in why and how things work.
      • Follows simple directions.
      • Identifies verb tense in pictures.
      • Understands full adult sentences.
      • Responds to opposites, comparatives, and superlatives.
      • Appreciates absurdities.
      • Responds to how questions.
      • Recognizes and follow routines.
      • Follows a change in a routine that has been described.
  • 52 Children use expressive vocabulary.
    • Use phrases and sentences with functional and descriptive vocabulary.
      • Uses sentences three to seven words in length.
      • Takes turns in conversation.
      • Answers why, what, and where questions.
      • Retells an event or story.
      • Answers simple comprehension questions from a story read aloud.
      • Memorizes and recite simple songs and finger plays.
      • Uses new vocabulary in spontaneous speech.
      • Asks the meaning of unfamiliar words and then experiments with using them.
      • Uses words to further describe actions or adjectives (running fast, playing well).
      • Uses multiple words to explain ideas (e.g., when talking about primary caregiver says “mother/father” and/or “parent”).
      • Uses words to express emotions (happy, sad, tired, scared).
      • Uses more complex vocabulary to describe events.
  • 53 Children demonstrate progression in grammar and syntax.
    • Use basic conventions of grammar and syntax.
      • Uses articles in sentences (the ball, a cat).
      • Uses complete sentences in conversations during play with peers.
      • Begins to use correct question forms.
      • Begins to use prepositions.
      • Talks in sentences with five to six words to describe people, places, and events.
      • Uses more complex grammar and parts of speech.
      • Describes a task, project, and/or event sequentially in three or more sentences.
      • Asks questions for information/clarification.
      • Uses sequence sentences in logical order.
      • Begins to correctly use subject and verb tense.
      • Strings multiple sentences together in logical order.
      • Uses complex grammar and parts of speech.
      • Combines more than one idea using complex sentences.
• Comprehension
  • 54 Children demonstrate comprehension and meaning in language.
    • Respond verbally and non-verbally to verbal and gestural communication.
      • Understands new words rapidly.
      • Responds to simple questions.
      • Understands location phrases.
      • Follows simple commands.
      • Responds to “wh” questions (what, when).
      • Begins to understand and recall information from stories.
      • Recognizes and responds appropriately to nonverbal cues.
      • Follows directions that involve a two- or three-step sequence of actions, which may not be related (e.g., “Please pick up your toys and then get your shoes.”).
      • Extends/expands the thought or idea expressed by another.
      • Engages in conversation that develops a thought or idea (tells about a past event).
      • Understands and recalls information in books and stories.
      • Understands quantitative concepts (how many more chairs do we need?).
      • Recognizes and responds in a culturally appropriate way to more subtle nonverbal cues.
      • Comprehends analogies.
      • Understands complex sentences.
• Expressive/Oral Language
  • 55 Children use language for a variety of purposes.
    • Follow social conventions to access, gain, and share information.
      • Uses words and phrases to relate observations, concepts, ideas, and relationships.
      • Takes turns in conversation.
      • Talks in sentences.
      • Responds to questions.
      • Uses words to protest.
      • Relates past or future events.
      • Asks questions to obtain information.
      • Participates in conversations about a variety of topics.
      • Engages in conversation with peers and adults.
      • Interprets written symbols, pictures, and letters to a listener.
      • Uses language to interpret the world.
      • Uses words to express feelings of self and others.
      • Uses own words to retell a story or to discuss an event in life