North Dakota Pre-Kindergarten ELA Standards in Reading Foundations

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2 Students apply basic skills in reading foundations.

• Print Concepts
  • LL.2.1 Know that print conveys meaning.
    • Recognize examples of print that tell people what to do (e.g., instructions, signs).
    • Identify print and simple symbols that are used to organize classroom activities (e.g., where to store things, when they will have a turn).
  • LL.2.2 Understand some basic print conventions and characteristics of books.
    • Demonstrate the proper way to handle books (e.g., hold the book upright; turn pages from front to back, one at a time, return to proper place when done).
  • LL.2.3 Know that letters have names and there are upper and lower case forms.
    • Develop familiarity with the forms of alphabet letters.
    • Identify letters in first and last name.
    • Sort and manipulate magnetic letters.
    • Find particular letters in words.
    • Rapidly name a sequence of random letters.
  • LL.2.4 Understand that the sounds of language are represented in print by letters and words.
    • Tell the basic differences among letters, numbers, and words.
    • Identify letters as letters and groups of letters as words.
• Phonological Awareness
  • LL.2.5 Discriminate between words and syllables in words.
    • Identifies and discriminates between words.
    • Practice clapping to indicate syllable boundary in spoken names and other words.
    • Identify some individual sounds in words (e.g., initial or ending sound).
  • LL.2.6 Recognize that spoken words can be separated into separate sounds and that separate sounds can be combined into spoken words.
    • Correctly produce phonemes
    • Verbally identify the beginning sound of name.
    • Recognize matching (phonemes) and rhyming sounds.
    • Practice blending by saying whole word when teacher gives separately spoken syllables while writing to dictation.
• Phonics and Word Recognition
  • LL.2.7 Know that each letter has its own sound(s) and identify some letter sounds.
    • Link letters with sounds in play activities.
    • Identify the letter name that corresponds with the sound pronounced by the teacher.
    • Identify beginning sound of an object’s name when shown the object or a picture.
  • LL.2.8 Recognize familiar print in the environment (e.g., traffic signs, store logos, own name).
    • Verbally identify labels in classroom and home (e.g., cereal, names, calendar).
    • Recognize print in everyday life, such as numbers, letters, and familiar signs.