BPS District English Standards Book
Completion requirements
K-12 Grade Levels
Kindergarten
ELA-00 Standards
ELA Strand Clusters
(F)
(C)
(R)
(Wr)
(IR)
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Prioritized Standards Identifiers are highlighted a sky-blue.
ELA-00.F (F) Foundations of Literacy
- ELA-00.F.01 Recognize the front cover, back cover, author, and illustrator of books.
- ELA-00.F.02 Follow words from left to right, top to bottom, and page by page.*
- ELA-00.F.03 Recognize that sentences have letters, words, spaces between words, capitalization, and ending punctuation.
- ELA-00.F.04 Recognize and produce rhyming words.
- ELA-00.F.05 Segment parts of spoken words.*
- ELA-00.F.06 Blend parts of spoken words.*
- ELA-00.F.07 Isolate and pronounce the initial, medial vowel, and final phonemes in three-phoneme words.*
- ELA-00.F.08 Decode words with phoneme-grapheme correspondences:*
- ELA-00.F.09 Encode words with phoneme-grapheme correspondences:*
- ELA-00.F.10 Determine the meaning of multiple-meaning words with phonics patterns that have been taught.
- ELA-00.F.11 Orally use new academic, content-specific, grade-level vocabulary, and relate new words to prior knowledge.
- ELA-00.F.12 Demonstrate fluency through the application of phonemic and phonological skills.*
- ELA-00.F.13 Write uppercase and lowercase letters accurately.*
- ELA-00.F.14 Write a simple sentence using subject and predicate, with capital letters, punctuation, and appropriate word spacing.
ELA-00.C (C) Communication
- ELA-00.C.01 Describe personal interests or tell stories orally to a targeted audience.
- ELA-00.C.02 Speak audibly to express thoughts, feelings, and ideas.
- ELA-00.C.03 Use words and phrases acquired through conversations, reading, being read to, and responding to texts.
- ELA-00.C.04 Use grade-appropriate, conversational, general academic, and domain-specific words and phrases.
- ELA-00.C.05 begins in 6th grade
- ELA-00.C.06 Participate in conversations by listening to others and taking turns speaking.
- ELA-00.C.07 Work collaboratively by following agreed-upon rules and simple one- and two-step oral directions.*
ELA-00.R (R) Reading
- ELA-00.R.01 is met in K.R.2-5.
- ELA-00.R.02 Respond to a variety of texts, photographs, or illustrations before, during, and after shared reading or other text-listening experiences to compare, contrast, predict, or infer.
- ELA-00.R.03a Tell about the informational text, photographs, or illustrations before, during, or after a shared reading or other text-listening experience.*
- ELA-00.R.03b Tell about characters and setting in a literary text during or after a shared reading or other text-listening experience.*
- ELA-00.R.04 begins in fourth grade
- ELA-00.R.05 Determine the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases through read-alouds or other text-listening experiences.*
- ELA-00.R.06 Identify photographs, illustrations, and labels during or after a shared reading or other text-listening experience.
- ELA-00.R.08 Use a variety of fiction texts.
- ELA-00.R.09 begins in third grade
ELA-00.Wr (Wr) Writing
- ELA-00.Wr.01 Produce writing through shared and interactive experiences in which the development and organization are appropriate to the task, purpose, or audience.*
- ELA-00.Wr.02 begins in second grade
- ELA-00.Wr.03 Draw and write informative pieces on a topic.
- ELA-00.Wr.04 Draw and write opinion pieces on a topic.
- ELA-00.Wr.05 Draw and write narrative pieces that describe a single event.
- ELA-00.Wr.06 Develop and strengthen writing utilizing the five steps appropriate to the task:
- ELA-00.Wr.07 Produce shared and interactive writing with emotion or personality expressed through word choice.
- ELA-00.wL.01 Compose a simple sentence.*
ELA-00.wL.02 Identify parts of speech in sentences orally, with illustrations, or in writing:*
