Mississippi Pre-Kindergarten ELA Standards in Reading Foundational Skills

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Reading Standards: Foundational Skills

• Print Concepts
  • 1 With prompting and support, demonstrate understanding of conventions of print.
    • a Recognize an association between spoken and written words.
    • b Recognize that the letters of the alphabet are a special category of visual graphics that can be individually named.
    • c Recognize and name some upper- and lower-case letters of the alphabet, especially those in own name.
    • d Differentiate letters from numbers.
    • e Recognize words as a unit of print and understand that letters are grouped to form words.
    • f Understand that print moves from left to right, top to bottom, and page by page.
    • g Understand that words are separated by spaces in print.
• Phonological Awareness
  • 2 With prompting and support, demonstrate an emerging understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds.
    • a Engage in language play (e.g., sound patterns, rhyming patterns, songs).
    • b Explore and recognize rhyming words (e.g., using songs, finger plays, nursery rhymes, imitation, poetry, and conversation).
    • c Demonstrate awareness of the relationship between sounds and letters.
    • d Demonstrate an understanding of syllables in words (units of sound) by clapping, stomping, and finger tapping.
    • e With prompting and support, isolate and pronounce the initial sounds in words.
    • f Demonstrate an awareness of ending sounds in words.
  • 3 With prompting and support, demonstrate emergent phonics and word analysis skills.
    • a Demonstrate one-to-one letter-sound correspondence by producing the primary sound of some consonants.
    • b Recognize own name, environmental print, and some common high-frequency sight words.
• Fluency
  • 4 Display emergent reading behavior with purpose and understanding (e.g., pretend reading, picture reading).