ELA-00.C Strand 

(C) Communications Learners will organize and express ideas in a format appropriate for the audience and purpose, focusing on skills involved with collaboration, active listening, and oral presentation of information.

Clusters

• (PC) Presentational Communication
  Learners will organize and express information in a format appropriate to the audience and purpose. 
• (C) Collaboration
  Learners will engage in a range of discussions with various partners on relevant topics, texts, and issues.

Calculation Method for Strands

Strands are larger groups of related standards. The Strand Grade is a calculation of all the related standards. Click on the standard name below each Strands to access the learning targets and rubrics/ proficiency scales for individual standards within the domain.

Kindergarten (ELA) Targeted Standard     (C) Communications  (PC) Presentational Communication Learners will organize and express information in a format appropriate to the audience and purpose.

Proficiency Scale

Progressions

• ELA-00.C.01   Describe personal interests or tell stories orally to a targeted audience. 
• ELA-01.C.01   Describe people, places, things, and events with relevant details expressing ideas orally to a targeted audience. 
• ELA-02.C.01   Report on a topic or text, tell a story or recount an experience to a targeted audience with relevant facts and descriptive details. 
• ELA-03.C.01   Report relevant facts and descriptive details of a topic, text, story, or experience for a targeted audience. 
• ELA-04.C.01   Organize and present information as an individual and group for a formal and informal audience. 
• ELA-05.C.01   Organize and present information as an individual and group for a formal and informal audience. 
• ELA-06.C.01   Construct and deliver formal and informal presentations considering the provided audience and purpose, including multimedia components when appropriate. 
• ELA-07.C.01   Construct and deliver formal and informal presentations considering the audience and purpose using multimedia components when appropriate. 
• ELA-08.C.01   Construct and deliver formal and informal presentations considering the audience and purpose, including multimedia components when appropriate. 
• ELA-09.C.01   Construct and deliver formal and informal presentations, incorporating multimedia components when appropriate for the audience and purpose. 
• ELA-10.C.01   Construct and deliver formal and informal presentations, incorporating multimedia components when appropriate for the audience and purpose. 
• ELA-11.C.01   Construct and deliver formal and informal presentations, incorporating multimedia components when appropriate for the audience and purpose. 
• ELA-12.C.01   Construct and deliver formal and informal presentations, incorporating multimedia components when appropriate for the audience and purpose. 

Kindergarten (ELA) Targeted Standard     (C) Communications  (PC) Presentational Communication Learners will organize and express information in a format appropriate to the audience and purpose.

Proficiency Scale

Progressions

• ELA-00.C.02   peak audibly to express thoughts, feelings, and ideas. 
• ELA-01.C.02   Speak audibly in complete sentences to express thoughts, feelings, and ideas. 
• ELA-02.C.02   Speak audibly in complete sentences when proper to the task and situation to provide requested details or clarifications. 
• ELA-03.C.02   Speak in complete sentences using proper eye contact and volume to express thoughts, feelings, and ideas. 
• ELA-04.C.02   Present ideas using proper eye contact, body language, and volume in formal and informal situations. 
• ELA-05.C.02   Present ideas using proper eye contact, body language, and volume in formal and informal situations. 
• ELA-06.C.02   Present ideas using proper eye contact, body language, volume, and pronunciation in formal and informal presentations. 
• ELA-07.C.02   Present ideas using proper eye contact, body language, volume, and pronunciation in formal and informal presentations. 
• ELA-08.C.02   Present ideas using proper eye contact, body language, volume, and pronunciation in formal and informal presentations. 
• ELA-09.C.02   Implement proper verbal and nonverbal communication for tasks and situations. 
• ELA-10.C.02   Implement proper verbal and nonverbal communication for tasks and situations. 
• ELA-11.C.02   Implement proper verbal and nonverbal communication for the task and situation. 
• ELA-12.C.02   Implement proper verbal and nonverbal communication for the task and situation. 

Kindergarten (ELA) Targeted Standard     (C) Communications  (PC) Presentational Communication Learners will organize and express information in a format appropriate to the audience and purpose.

Proficiency Scale

Progressions

• ELA-00.C.03   Use words and phrases acquired through conversations, reading, being read to, and responding to texts. 
• ELA-01.C.03   Use words and phrases acquired through conversations, reading, being read to, and responding to texts, including frequently occurring conjunctions to signal simple relationships. 
• ELA-02.C.03   Use words and phrases acquired through conversations, reading, being read to, and responding to texts, including using adjectives and adverbs to describe. 

Kindergarten (ELA) Targeted Standard     (C) Communications  (PC) Presentational Communication Learners will organize and express information in a format appropriate to the audience and purpose.

Proficiency Scale

Progressions

• ELA-00.C.04   Use grade-appropriate, conversational, general academic, and domain-specific words and phrases. 
• ELA-01.C.04   Use grade-appropriate conversational, general academic, and domain-specific words and phrases. 
• ELA-02.C.04   Use grade-appropriate conversational, general academic, and domain-specific words and phrases. 
• ELA-03.C.04   Use grade-appropriate conversational, general academic, and domain-specific words and phrases. 
• ELA-04.C.04   Use grade-appropriate conversational, general academic, and domain-specific words and phrases. 
• ELA-05.C.04   Use grade-appropriate conversational, general academic, and domain-specific words and phrases.

Kindergarten (ELA) Targeted Standard     (C) Communications  (C) Collaboration Learners will engage in a range of discussions with various partners on relevant topics, texts, and issues.

Proficiency Scale

Progressions

• ELA-00.C.06   Participate in conversations by listening to others and taking turns speaking. 
• ELA-01.C.06   Participate in conversations by listening to others and taking turns speaking about topics, continuing through multiple exchanges. 
• ELA-02.C.06   Participate in conversations by linking comments to the remarks of others and asking questions. 
• ELA-03.C.06   Engage in conversations by asking and answering questions using active listening skills. 
• ELA-04.C.06   Engage in a range of discussions by using active listening skills, posing, and responding to specific questions. 
• ELA-05.C.06   Engage in a range of discussions using active listening skills, posing and responding to specific questions to clarify information. 
• ELA-06.C.06   Engage in a range of discussions and/or debates using active listening skills to be focused and present. 
• ELA-07.C.06   Engage in a range of discussions and/or debates. 
• ELA-08.C.06   Engage in a range of discussions and/or debates. 
• ELA-09.C.06   Engage in respectful discussions or debates. 
• ELA-10.C.06   Engage in respectful discussions or debates. 
• ELA-11.C.06   Engage in respectful discussions or debates. 
• ELA-12.C.06   Engage in respectful discussions or debates. 

Kindergarten (ELA) Targeted Standard     (C) Communications  (C) Collaboration Learners will engage in a range of discussions with various partners on relevant topics, texts, and issues.

Proficiency Scale

Progressions

• ELA-00.C.07 Work collaboratively by following agreed-upon rules and simple one- and two-step oral directions.*
• ELA-01.C.07   Work collaboratively by following agreed-upon rules and simple two- and three-step oral directions and offering one- and two-step verbal directions. 
• ELA-02.C.07   Work collaboratively by following agreed-upon rules and following/offering multi-step oral directions. 
• ELA-03.C.07   Engage collaboratively by following agreed-upon rules. 
• ELA-04.C.07   Engage collaboratively to accomplish a common goal or purpose. 
• ELA-05.C.07   Engage collaboratively to accomplish a common goal or purpose. 
• ELA-06.C.07   Collaborate cooperatively with peers to accomplish a common goal or purpose. 
• ELA-07.C.07   Collaborate cooperatively with peers to accomplish a common goal or purpose. 
• ELA-08.C.07   Collaborate cooperatively with peers to accomplish a common goal or purpose. 
• ELA-09.C.07   Collaborate on a specific task or purpose in a productive climate by following norms, processes, and roles. 
• ELA-10.C.07   Collaborate on a specific task or purpose in a productive climate by following norms, processes, and roles. 
• ELA-11.C.07   Collaborate on a specific task or purpose in a productive climate by establishing and following norms, processes, and roles. 
• ELA-12.C.07   Collaborate on a specific task or purpose in a productive climate by establishing and following norms, processes, and roles.

  ELA-00.F Strand 

(F) Foundations of Literacy Learners will apply foundation reading and writing skills by working with sounds, letters, words, sentences, and texts.

Clusters

• (PC) Print Concepts
  Learners will demonstrate knowledge of books, print, and written language and how they function. 
• (PPA) Phonological and Phonemic Awareness
  Learners will accurately manipulate phonemes (sounds) in the spoken language. 
• (PW) Phonics and Word
  Study Learners will decode, encode, and connect meaning to word parts and words 
• (PWS) Phonics and Word Study
  Learners will decode, encode, and connect meaning to word parts and words 
• (F) Fluency
  Learners will read with sufficient accuracy, rate, and expression to support comprehension. 
• (FW) Foundations of Writing
  Learners will write complete sentences and paragraphs.

Calculation Method for Strands

Strands are larger groups of related standards. The Strand Grade is a calculation of all the related standards. Click on the standard name below each Strands to access the learning targets and rubrics/ proficiency scales for individual standards within the domain.

Kindergarten (ELA) Targeted Standard     (F) Foundations of Literacy  (PC) Print Concepts Learners will demonstrate knowledge of books, print, and written language and how they function.

Proficiency Scale

Progressions

• ELA-00.F.01   Recognize the front cover, back cover, author, and illustrator of books. 

Kindergarten (ELA) Targeted Standard     (F) Foundations of Literacy  (PC) Print Concepts Learners will demonstrate knowledge of books, print, and written language and how they function.

Proficiency Scale

Progressions

• ELA-00.F.02   Follow words from left to right, top to bottom, and page by page.* 

Kindergarten (ELA) Targeted Standard     (F) Foundations of Literacy  (PC) Print Concepts Learners will demonstrate knowledge of books, print, and written language and how they function.

Proficiency Scale

Progressions

• ELA-00.F.03   Recognize that sentences have letters, words, spaces between words, capitalization, and ending punctuation. 
• ELA-01.F.03   Identify the distinguishing features of a sentence.

Kindergarten (ELA) Targeted Standard     (F) Foundations of Literacy  (PPA) Phonological and Phonemic Awareness Learners will accurately manipulate phonemes (sounds) in the spoken language.

Proficiency Scale

Progressions

• ELA-00.F.04   Recognize and produce rhyming words. 

Kindergarten (ELA) Targeted Standard     (F) Foundations of Literacy  (PPA) Phonological and Phonemic Awareness Learners will accurately manipulate phonemes (sounds) in the spoken language.

Proficiency Scale

Sub Standard:

• (a) Segment multi syllabic spoken words by syllables.
• (b) Segment one-syllable spoken words into two-phonemes and three-phonemes.

Progressions

• ELA-00.F.05   Segment parts of spoken words.* 
• ELA-01.F.05   Segment one-syllable spoken words into four or more phonemes.* 

Kindergarten (ELA) Targeted Standard     (F) Foundations of Literacy  (PPA) Phonological and Phonemic Awareness Learners will accurately manipulate phonemes (sounds) in the spoken language.

Proficiency Scale

Sub Standard:

• (a) Blend two or more syllables into a spoken word.
• (b) Blend two or three phonemes into a one-syllable spoken word.

Progressions

• ELA-00.F.06   Blend parts of spoken words.* 
• ELA-01.F.06   Blend four or more phonemes to produce a spoken word or syllable.* 

Kindergarten (ELA) Targeted Standard     (F) Foundations of Literacy  (PPA) Phonological and Phonemic Awareness Learners will accurately manipulate phonemes (sounds) in the spoken language.

Proficiency Scale

Progressions

• ELA-00.F.07   Isolate and pronounce the initial, medial vowel, and final phonemes in three-phoneme words.* 
• ELA-01.F.07   Manipulate parts of spoken words.*

Kindergarten (ELA) Targeted Standard     (F) Foundations of Literacy  (PWS) Phonics and Word Study Learners will decode, encode, and connect meaning to word parts and words.

Proficiency Scale

Sub Standards:

• (a) predictable consonants
• (b) predictable short vowels spelled with a, i, o, u, e
• (c) long vowels associated with single letters in open one-syllable words
• (d) irregularly spelled high-frequency words

Progressions

• ELA-00.F.08   Decode words with phoneme-grapheme correspondences:* 
• ELA-01.F.08   Decode words with phoneme-grapheme correspondences:* 
• ELA-02.F.08   Decode words with phoneme-grapheme correspondences:* 
• ELA-03.F.08   Decode words with phoneme-grapheme correspondences:* 
• ELA-04.F.08   Decode words using the combined knowledge of syllabication patterns and morphology in context and out of context:* 
• ELA-05.F.08   Decode words using the combined knowledge of syllabication patterns and morphology in context and out of context:* 

Kindergarten (ELA) Targeted Standard     (F) Foundations of Literacy  (PWS) Phonics and Word Study Learners will decode, encode, and connect meaning to word parts and words.

Proficiency Scale

Sub Standards:

• (a) predictable consonants
• (b) predictable short vowels
• (c) long vowels with single letters in open one-syllable words (e.g., he, me, go)
• (d) irregularly spelled high-frequency words

Progressions

• ELA-00.F.09   Encode words with phoneme-grapheme correspondences:* 
• ELA-01.F.09   Encode words with phoneme-grapheme correspondences:* 
• ELA-02.F.09   Encode words with phoneme-grapheme correspondences:* 
• ELA-03.F.09   Encode words with phoneme-grapheme correspondences:* 
• ELA-04.F.09   Encode words using the combined knowledge of syllabication patterns and morphology in context and out of context:* 
• ELA-05.F.09   Encode words using the combined knowledge of syllabication patterns and morphology in context and out of context:* 

Kindergarten (ELA) Targeted Standard     (F) Foundations of Literacy  (PWS) Phonics and Word Study Learners will decode, encode, and connect meaning to word parts and words.

Proficiency Scale

Progressions

• ELA-00.F.10   Determine the meaning of multiple-meaning words with phonics patterns that have been taught. 
• ELA-01.F.10   Determine the meaning of multiple-meaning words with phonics patterns that have been taught. 
• ELA-02.F.10   Determine the meaning of multiple-meaning words with phonics patterns that have been taught. 
• ELA-03.F.10   Determine the meaning of multiple-meaning words and phrases, choosing from a range of strategies with varying texts. 
• ELA-04.F.10   Determine the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases, choosing from a range of strategies with varying texts. 
• ELA-05.F.10   Determine the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases, choosing from a range of strategies with varying texts. 

Kindergarten (ELA) Targeted Standard     (F) Foundations of Literacy  (PWS) Phonics and Word Study Learners will decode, encode, and connect meaning to word parts and words.

Proficiency Scale

Progressions

• ELA-00.F.11   Orally use new academic, content-specific, grade-level vocabulary, and relate new words to prior knowledge. 
• ELA-01.F.11   Use new academic, content-specific, grade-level vocabulary, make connections to previously learned words, and relate new words to background knowledge. 
• ELA-02.F.11   Use new academic, content-specific, grade-level vocabulary, connecting previously learned words and relating new words to background knowledge. 
• ELA-03.F.11   Use new academic, content-specific, grade-level vocabulary to make connections to previously learned words and relate new words to background knowledge. 
• ELA-04.F.11   Accurately interpret general academic and domain-specific words and phrases. 
• ELA-05.F.11   Acquire and use grade-level vocabulary, clarifying the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases in the text, choosing from a range of strategies.

Kindergarten (ELA) Targeted Standard     (F) Foundations of Literacy  (F) Fluency Learners will read with sufficient accuracy, rate, and expression to support comprehension.

Proficiency Scale

Progressions

• ELA-00.F.12   Demonstrate fluency through the application of phonemic and phonological skills.* 
• ELA-01.F.12   Read accurately and automatically* 
• ELA-02.F.12   Read accurately and automatically a variety of second-grade texts with expression, phrasing, purpose, and understanding.* 
• ELA-03.F.12   Read accurately and automatically a variety of third-grade texts with expression, phrasing, purpose, and understanding.* 
• ELA-04.F.12   Read accurately and automatically a variety of fourth-grade texts using expression, phrasing, purpose, and understanding.* 
• ELA-05.F.12   Read accurately and automatically a variety of fifth-grade texts with expression, phrasing, purpose, and understanding.*