Kindergarten ELA Critical Concepts

Decoding

• I can identify the letters and sounds that differ among similarly spelled words.
• I can read common high-frequency words by sight.

Phonological Awareness

• I can produce rhyming words orally.
• I can pronounce the initial, medial vowel and final sounds in spoken words that follow a consonant-vowel-consonant (CVC) pattern.
• I can blend and segment syllables in spoken words.

Print Concepts

• I can explain how written words are organized on pages.
• I can write sentences when told how to spell individual words.

Analyzing Text Organization and Structure

• I can compare two ideas, events or people in a text.

Text Features

• I can describe the connection between an illustration and the information in a text.

Analyzing Main Ideas

• I can identify the main idea of a text.
• I can retell details from a text.

Analyzing Claims and Reasons

• I can identify a reason that supports an opinion in a text.

Analyzing Narratives

• I can retell events from a narrative text in order.
• I can identify the characters and settings in a narrative text.

Comparing Texts

• I can compare details from two texts on the same topic.
• I can compare the main characters from two stories.

Analyzing Words

• I can relate words to their real-life meanings.
• I can use familiar parts of words to understand their meaning.
• I can explain a word's meaning by relating it to opposites.

Generating Sentences

• I can generate complete sentences.
• I can use proper end punctuation marks for different kinds of sentences.

Generating Text Organization and Structure

• I can state the topic in text.
• I can use drawing, dictating, and writing to supply information about a topic.

Generating Claims

• I can state an opinion or preference about a topic or book.

Source and Research

• I can answer a question with a fact or piece of information from a provided source.

Generating Narrative

• I can use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to tell a narrative about one event.
• I can describe familiar people, places, and things.

Parts of Speech

• I can use common singular and plural nouns correctly.
• I can use common verbs correctly.
• I can use common prepositions correctly.
• I can use question words correctly.

Spelling

• I can spell simple, one-syllable words phonetically.