Utah Pre-Kindergarten ELA Standards in Reading Foundation Skills

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Print Concepts
- 1 With guidance and support, recognize print in everyday life, such as numbers, letters, one’s name, words, familiar logos and signs.
  - a Recognize that print is read from top to bottom and left to right.
  - b Recognize that spoken words are represented in written language.
  - c Understand that letters are grouped to form words.
  - d Recognize some alphabet letters.
  - e Recognize print in everyday life (e.g., numbers, letters, one’s name, words, familiar logos, and environmental print).
Phonological Awareness
- 2 With guidance and support, identify and discriminate between sounds (phonemes) in spoken language, such as attention to beginning and ending sounds (phonemes) of words.
  - a Begin to supply rhyming words in familiar songs/ jingles and orally match words that rhyme.
  - b Identify and separate syllables (word parts) in words.
  - c Identify words by syllables, beginning sounds, or individual sounds.
  - d Recognize initial and final sound of words.
  - e With modeling and support, identify individual phonemes (e.g., /d/, /s/, /t/).
Phonics and Word Recognition
- 3 With guidance and support, recognize that words are made up of letters and their sounds.
  - a Begin to associate names of letters with sounds of the alphabet (e.g., initial sound of own name).
  - c Begin to recognize some words that are seen frequently.
  - d Distinguish between letters and words that are the same or different.