South Carolina Pre-Kindergarten ELA Standards in Learning to Read

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III Learning to Read

• ELA-3 The student will learn to read by applying appropriate skills and strategies.
  • Oral Language Acquisition & Vocabulary Development
    • ELA-4K-3.1 Begin to use both pictures and text read aloud as cues to meaning of unfamiliar words.
    • ELA-4K-3.2 Create a different form of a familiar word by adding “-ed” ending to show past action.
    • ELA-4K-3.3 Display curiosity and interest in learning new words.
    • ELA-4K-3.4 Begin understanding how print is used to bring meaning.
  • Fluency
    • ELA-4K-3.6 Participate in choral speaking of poems, songs, and stories with repeated patterns.
  • Phonemic Awareness and Phonics
    • ELA-4K-3.7 Begin using appropriate voice volume, sentence structure (syntax), and vocabulary.
    • ELA-4K-3.8 Use word beginnings and endings as language play or comprehension clue.
    • ELA-4K-3.9 Recognize rhyming words with adult modeling.
    • ELA-4K-3.10 Create words by orally adding, deleting, or changing sounds in response to adult prompt.
    • ELA-4K-3.12 Begin identifying some letter sounds and matching them to letters.
    • ELA-4K-3.13 Identify several letters and their general order in the alphabet.
    • ELA-4K-3.14 Beginning to understand that letters can represent speech sounds.
  • Oral Language Acquisition and Comprehension Development
    • ELA-4K-3.15 Begin to recognize similarities in sounds at the beginning and ending of words.
  • Concepts about Print
    • ELA-4K-3.19 Make connections to prior knowledge, other texts, and the world in response to texts read aloud.
    • ELA-4K-3.20 Identify familiar environmental print such as business logos and traffic signs.
    • ELA-4K-3.21 Progress in understanding how books are viewed.
    • ELA-4K-3.22 Understand relationship between print and pictures on page.
    • ELA-4K-3.23 Begin recognizing some letters in words.