Kentucky Pre-Kindergarten ELA Standards in Reading

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3 Demonstrates general skills and strategies of the reading process.

• 3.1 Listens to and/or responds to reading materials with interest and enjoyment.
  • 3.1.1 Participates actively in story time.
  • 3.1.2 Chooses reading activities.
  • 3.1.3 Responds to reading activities with interest and enjoyment.
• 3.2 Shows interest and understanding of the basic concepts and conventions of print.
  • 3.2.1 Handles books correctly, showing increasing skills in print directionality.
  • 3.2.2 Understands that print has meaning.
• 3.3 Demonstrates knowledge of the alphabet.
  • 3.3.1 Recognizes some letters of the alphabet.
  • 3.3.2 Recognizes some letters and words in print.
  • 3.3.3 Identifies some known letters of the alphabet in familiar and unfamiliar words.
• 3.4 Demonstrates emergent phonemic/phonological awareness.
  • 3.4.1 Recognizes rhyming words.
  • 3.4.2 Recognizes sounds that match.
  • 3.4.3 Produces a rhyming word.
  • 3.4.4 Discriminates separate syllables in words.
  • 3.4.5 Makes some letter-sound connections.
  • 3.4.6 Identifies some beginning sounds.
• 3.5 Draws meaning from pictures, print, and text.
  • 3.5.1 Names features of a picture.
  • 3.5.2 Uses illustrations to tell major events of a story.
  • 3.5.3 Understands that text has a specific meaning.
• 3.6 Tells and retells a story.
  • 3.6.1 Imitates act of reading in play.
  • 3.6.2 Acts out main events of a familiar story.
  • 3.6.3 Uses pictures and illustrations to tell and retell a story.
  • 3.6.4 Uses prior experience to help make sense of stories.
  • 3.6.5 Retells a story including many details and draws connections between story events.