New Hampshire Pre-Kindergarten ELA Standards in Emergent Literacy

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EL Emergent Literacy – How Do Young Children Learn to View Literacy as a Tool for Expressing Themselves and Interacting with the World?

• EL.1 Emergent Reading
  • EL.1.1 Participation in language and literacy activities
    • EL.1.1.1 Learn new information from books being read to them
    • EL.1.1.2 Ask for a story to be read and respond to stories told or read aloud
    • EL.1.1.3 Respond to adult questions about a book or story
    • EL.1.1.4 Ask questions about a book or story
    • EL.1.1.5 Make connections between a book or story to personal experiences (E.g. Irena points to a picture of dog and says, “I have a dog like this, only bigger and my dog never chews shoes”.)
  • EL.1.2 Narrative and story sense
    • EL.1.2.1 Guess what will happen next in a story using pictures as a guide
    • EL.1.2.2 Tell their own stories
  • EL.1.3 Comprehension and interpretation
    • EL.1.3.1 Represent stories told or read aloud through a variety of media or in play
    • EL.1.3.2 Use their own words to retell a simple familiar story while looking at book
    • EL.1.3.3 Retell information from a book (E.g. 5 year old Mac tells his Papa that Tyrannosaurus Rex runs as fast as a horse.)
  • EL.1.4 Interest in and appreciation of reading
    • EL.1.4.1 Select favorite books, authors, or illustrators
    • EL.1.4.2 Request or respond to informational books on favorite topics
  • EL.1.5 Phonological awareness (which refers to understanding the sound structure of language such as sounds, rhymes, syllables and words)
    • EL.1.5.1 Listen to and recognize different sounds in rhymes, songs and familiar words (E.g. When the teacher sings, “Willaby wallaby Wecca an elephant sat on…”, Becca shouts, “Becca!”)
    • EL.1.5.2 Play with sounds of spoken language including letter sounds, rhymes and words (E.g. Ray says, “My name rhymes with play.”)
    • EL.1.5.3 Can distinguish the beginning sounds of some words
  • EL.1.6 Book awareness
    • EL.1.6.1 Identify parts of books such as cover, first page, and title
    • EL.1.6.2 Understand that print carries a message
• EL.2 Emergent Writing
  • EL.2.1 Print and alphabet awareness
    • EL.2.1.1 Recognize some letters in the alphabet, especially those in their own name (E.g. While putting her things away in her cubby, 4-year-old Azlyn notices other children’s names on their cubbies. She exclaims,”Hey, Autumn starts the same as me!”)
    • EL.2.1.2 Begin to associate sounds with words or letters
    • EL.2.1.3 Understand that specific symbols are used to communicate in writing
  • EL.2.2 Interest in and emergent writing
    • EL.2.2.1 Understand that writing is a way of communicating
    • EL.2.2.2 Use scribbles, shapes, pictures or dictation to represent thoughts or ideas
    • EL.2.2.3 Engage in writing using letter-like symbols to make letters or words
    • EL.2.2.4 Begin to copy or write their own name