Wisconsin Pre-Kindergarten ELA Standards in Early Literacy

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C Children in Wisconsin will have the literacy skills and concepts needed to become successful readers and writers.

• C.EL.1 Develops ability to detect, manipulate, or analyze the auditory parts of spoken language.
  • Enjoys and responds to frequently said sounds, words, and rhymes.
  • Imitates sounds.
  • Repeats words in rhymes and actions.
  • Requests and joins in saying favorite rhymes and songs that repeat sounds and words.
  • Recognizes and matches sounds and rhymes in familiar words.
  • Recognizes sounds that match and words that begin or end with the same sounds.
  • Recognizes and produces rhyming words.
  • Discriminates separate syllables in spoken words and begins to blend and segment syllables.
  • Recognizes single sounds and combinations of sounds.
• C.EL.2 Understands concept that the alphabet represents the sounds of spoken language and the letters of written language.
  • Explores, repeats, imitates alphabet related songs and games.
  • Recognizes the difference between letters and other symbols.
  • Recognizes letters and their sounds in familiar words, especially in own name.
  • Makes some letter/ sound connections and identifies some beginning sounds.
  • Uses a combination of letter sounds, familiar environmental print, and picture cues to recognize a printed word.
  • Recognizes that most speech sounds (both consonants and vowels) are represented by single letter symbols.
  • Experiences success in reading by sounding out words (decoding).
  • Recognizes and names all letters of the alphabet (upper and lowercase) in familiar and unfamiliar words.
  • Reads familiar decodable and some irregular words in books, signs, and labels.
• C.EL.3 Shows an appreciation of books and understands how print works.
  • Explores and enjoys books.
  • Points to and names pictures in a book when asked.
  • Looks at picture books and asks questions or makes comments.
  • Understands that print in the book carries the message.
  • Views one page at a time from the front to the back of the book and knows that the book has a title, author, and illustrator.
  • Chooses reading activities and responds with interest and enjoyment.
  • Recognizes some familiar environmental print.
  • Handles books correctly, and shows increasing skills in print directionality.
  • Understands the difference between letters, words, and sentences.
  • Understands that books have characters, sequence of events, and story plots.
• C.EL.4 Uses writing to represent thoughts or ideas.
  • Begins to use writing tools to make marks.
  • Scribbles and creates unconventional shapes.
  • Writes lists, thank you notes, names, and labels objects in play.
  • Labels pictures using scribbles or letter-like forms to represent words or ideas.
  • Writes recognizable letters and begins to write name and a few words.
  • Uses knowledge of sounds and letters to write some words and phrases (inventive and conventional spelling).