Arkansas State Standards for Language Arts: Kindergarten

AR.1. Oral and Visual Communication: Speaking: Students shall demonstrate effective oral communication skills to express ideas and to present information.

OV.1.K.1. Speaking vocabulary: Name or describe people, places, things, locations, sizes, colors, shapes, numbers, and actions.

OV.1.K.2. Speaking behaviors: Focus on audience.

OV.1.K.3. Speaking behaviors: Express ideas in complete sentences when speaking.

OV.1.K.4. Speaking behaviors: Make appropriate comments about the ideas of others.

OV.1.K.5. Speaking to share understanding of information: Give simple one-step directions.

OV.1.K.6. Speaking to share understanding of information: Participate in discussions about a variety of topics, including books and personal experiences.

OV.1.K.7. Speaking for literary response and expression: Use pictures to orally retell a story with a beginning, middle, and end, with or without prompts.

OV.1.K.8. Speaking for literary response and expression: Participate in a variety of speaking activities including shared reading, oral retelling and dramatizations.

AR.2. Oral and Visual Communication: Listening: Students shall demonstrate effective listening skills in formal and informal settings to facilitate communication.

OV.2.K.1. Listening for information and understanding: Demonstrate active listening behaviors (i.e., facing the speaker, making eye contact, and maintaining attention.

OV.2.K.2. Listening for information and understanding: Listen for a purpose.

OV.2.K.3. Listening for information and understanding: Follow one-step oral directions.

OV.2.K.4. Listening and responding to literature: Listen to literature presented using a variety of media, including teacher reading, computer, or tape recording.

OV.2.K.5. Listening and responding to literature: Listen to a variety of texts from various cultures read aloud every day.

OV.2.K.6. Listening for critical analysis and evaluation: Listen for specific information .

AR.3. Oral and Visual Communication: Media Literacy: Students shall demonstrate knowledge and understanding of media as a mode of communication.

OV.3.K.1. Utilizing media for information and understanding: Listen to and view a variety of media to understand and extend learning .

OV.3.K.2. Utilizing media for information and understanding: Identify the various types of media in daily life.

OV.3.K.3. Utilizing media for personal response and expression: Respond to media in a variety of ways (i.e., art and movement).

OV.3.K.4. Utilizing media for critical analysis and evaluation: Review audio and video recordings of class presentations.

AR.4. Writing: Process: Students shall employ a wide range of strategies as they write and use different writing process elements appropriately.

W.4.K.1. Prewriting: Generate topics and content by drawing, sharing personal experiences, and responding to books.

W.4.K.2. Prewriting: Apply strategies, when prompted, to move from oral language to written language (i.e., orally compose message and verbally rehearse, etc.).

W.4.K.3. Prewriting: Participate in teacher led prewriting activities to develop an understanding of the writing process .

W.4.K.4. Drafting: Use letters and phonetically spelled words to write about self-selected topics.

W.4.K.5. Drafting: Write from left to right and top to bottom and use return sweep.

W.4.K.6. Drafting: Apply strategies for moving from oral language to writing (i.e., reread text to get to next word in the message, etc.).

W.4.K.7. Drafting: Apply knowledge of letters and words (i.e., groups of letters represent words and a space occurs between words, etc.).

W.4.K.8. Drafting: Demonstrate understanding that letters must occur in a specific sequence within a word.

W.4.K.9. Drafting: Use strategies for applying phonemic awareness and phonics knowledge (i.e., break speech into words and leave spaces between words, slowly articulate or segment words in order to hear most salient sounds, etc.).

W.4.K.10. Drafting: Write simple messages independently to demonstrate the understanding that speech can be written.

W.4.K.11. Revising: Reread message to check for accuracy and meaning .

W.4.K.12. Revising: Participate in teacher-led revision.

W.4.K.13. Publishing: Prepare pieces for publication (i.e., illustrations, rewriting, etc.).

W.4.K.14. Publishing: Share writing with others .

W.4.K.15. Publishing: Contribute to the literate environment of the classroom/school by displaying writing samples (e.g., poems, word study charts, word walls, writing samples, etc.).

W.4.K.16. Publishing: Contribute to a writing portfolio.

AR.5. Writing: Purposes, Topics, Forms and Audiences: Students shall demonstrate competency in writing for a variety of purposes, topics and audiences employing a wide range of forms.

W.5.K.1. Purposes and Audiences: Write for self.

W.5.K.2. Purposes and Audiences: Write and/or draw to communicate ideas.

W.5.K.3. Purposes and Audiences: Explain some of the purposes for writing, such as telephone messages, recipes, or lists.

W.5.K.4. Topics and Forms: Write daily.

W.5.K.5. Topics and Forms: Write brief personal narratives and simple informational text (i.e., journal writing, etc.).

W.5.K.6. Topics and Forms: Respond by writing or drawing pictures to stories read aloud .

AR.6. Writing: Conventions: Students shall apply knowledge of Standard English conventions in written work.

W.6.K.1. Sentence Formation: Write simple sentences around known words, repetitive phrases, and sentence beginnings.

AR.7. Writing: Craftsmanship: Students shall develop personal style and voice as they approach the craftsmanship of writing.

W.7.K.1. Purposefully shaping and controlling language: Include drawings that support meaning.

W.7.K.2. Purposefully shaping and controlling language: Incorporates language acquired from reading and/or conversation.

W.7.K.3. Purposefully shaping and controlling language: Incorporate into personal writing literary language and styles heard or read in the classroom .

W.7.K.4. Purposefully shaping and controlling language: Use predictable texts as model for own writing.

W.7.K.5. Purposefully shaping and controlling language: Listen and respond to writings of others.

AR.8. Reading: Foundations of Reading: Students shall apply concepts of print, acquire knowledge of spoken words and understand the relationship of speech to print as they develop a foundation for literacy.

R.8.K.1. Utilizing concepts about print: Demonstrate understanding of the relationship between written and oral language.

R.8.K.2. Utilizing concepts about print: Demonstrate understanding of directionality (left to right, return sweep, top to bottom, front to back) .

R.8.K.3. Utilizing concepts about print: Apply knowledge of letter and word.

R.8.K.4. Utilizing concepts about print: Apply knowledge of first and last (i.e., letter, sounds, words, etc.).

R.8.K.5. Utilizing concepts about print: Track known print using one-to-one correspondence .

R.8.K.6. Utilizing concepts about print: Identify the front cover and back cover of a book.

R.8.K.7. Utilizing concepts about print: Identify what an author does and what an illustrator does.

R.8.K.8. Developing phonological awareness: Identify and produce oral rhymes.

R.8.K.9. Developing phonological awareness: Segment oral language into sentences and words.

R.8.K.10. Developing phonological awareness: Identify and work with syllables, onsets, rimes in spoken words.

R.8.K.11. Developing phonological awareness: Isolate individual phonemes in a word.

R.8.K.12. Developing phonological awareness: Recognize like phonemes in different words (phoneme identity).

R.8.K.13. Developing phonological awareness: Categorize words with like and unlike phonemes.

R.8.K.14. Developing phonological awareness: Blend separate phonemes orally into one-syllable words.

R.8.K.15. Developing phonological awareness: Segment individual phonemes orally in one-syllable words.

AR.9. Reading: Comprehension: Students shall apply a variety of strategies to read and comprehend printed material.

R.9.K.1. Using prior knowledge to make meaning: Preview the selection and use prior knowledge to make reasonable predictions .

R.9.K.2. Using connections to make meaning: Make connections from text to self during read aloud.

R.9.K.3. Using connections to make meaning: Make connections from text to text during read aloud.

R.9.K.4. Using visualization to make meaning: Form a mental picture from text read by the teacher, including story elements or descriptions.

R.9.K.5. Using questioning and monitoring to make meaning: Ask and answer questions about the text.

R.9.K.6. Using questioning and monitoring to make meaning: Ask and answer questions in response to what is heard or read.

R.9.K.7. Using inferences to make meaning: Predict what will happen next in a text.

R.9.K.8. Using inferences to make meaning: Predict repetitive text.

R.9.K.9. Using inferences to make meaning: Use pictures to make predictions about the content .

R.9.K.10. Determining importance to make meaning: Retell stories and events using beginning, middle, and end.

R.9.K.11. Determining importance to make meaning: Identify the topic or main idea of a selection.

R.9.K.12. Summarizing and synthesizing for meaning: Use a few details to retell a simple story with a beginning, middle, and end.

R.9.K.13. Summarizing and synthesizing for meaning: Create art work and/or a simple written response that shows comprehension of a story.

R.9.K.14. Summarizing and synthesizing for meaning: Discuss reading with others.

AR.10. Reading: Variety of texts: Students shall read, examine, and respond to a wide range of text for a variety of purposes.

R.10.K.1. Exhibit behaviors and habits of an active reader: Read daily.

R.10.K.2. Exhibit behaviors and habits of an active reader: Read and explain own writing and drawings .

R.10.K.3. Exhibit behaviors and habits of an active reader: Distinguish different forms of text, such as story or informational.

R.10.K.4. Exhibit behaviors and habits of an active reader: Demonstrate knowledge of the content of the works of a single author.

R.10.K.5. Exhibit behaviors and habits of an active reader: Participate actively (react, join in, predict, read along, etc.) when predictable and patterned selections are read aloud.

R.10.K.6. Exhibit behaviors and habits of an active reader: Respond to a wide variety of texts by contributing to a reading journal/log which demonstrates appropriate comprehension skills, including picture and written responses.

R.10.K.7. Exhibit behaviors and habits of an active reader: Select familiar books to read from a variety of sources, including classroom, home, and school library.

R.10.K.8. Reading a variety of informational materials for enjoyment and critical analysis: Identify the topics of nonfiction selections read aloud.

R.10.K.9. Reading a variety of informational materials for enjoyment and critical analysis: Read a variety of simple repetitive texts, including poetry and nursery rhymes.

R.10.K.10. Reading a variety of informational materials for enjoyment and critical analysis: Engage in literature (stories, songs, plays and poems, etc.).

R.10.K.11. Reading a variety of informational materials for enjoyment and critical analysis: Participate in group innovations of text.

R.10.K.12. Reading a variety of informational materials for enjoyment and critical analysis: Discuss beginning, middle, and end from books read aloud .

R.10.K.13. Reading a variety of poetry for enjoyment and critical analysis: Read familiar poems, nursery rhymes, and finger plays to explore rhythm and rhyme.

R.10.K.14. Reading a variety of poetry for enjoyment and critical analysis: Discuss familiar poems, nursery rhymes, and finger plays to determine meaning.

R.10.K.15. Reading a variety of practical materials for enjoyment and critical analysis: Read labels and environmental print.

R.10.K.16. Reading a variety of practical materials for enjoyment and critical analysis: Identify common signs and logos.

R.10.K.17. Reading a variety of practical materials for enjoyment and critical analysis: Use functional print such as name cards, labels, signs, calendar, and word walls to accomplish tasks.

AR.11. Reading: Vocabulary, Word Study, and Fluency: Students shall acquire and apply skills in vocabulary development and word analysis to be able to read fluently.

R.11.K.1. Meaning-based word recognition: Use context clues to predict text (i.e., pictures, repetitive texts).

R.11.K.2. Meaning-based word recognition: Use story language in discussion and retellings.

R.11.K.3. Spelling-sound word recognition (phonics): Understand that a predictable relationship exists between written letters and spoken sounds .

R.11.K.4. Spelling-sound word recognition (phonics): Identify upper- and lower-case letters fluently.

R.11.K.5. Spelling-sound word recognition (phonics): Identify the most common sound associated with individual letters.

R.11.K.6. Spelling-sound word recognition (phonics): Use letter-sound matches to decode simple words.

R.11.K.7. Spelling-sound word recognition (phonics): Use picture clues to cross check for word meaning .

R.11.K.8. Sight word recognition: Read approximately 25 high frequency words with automaticity during reading.

R.11.K.9. Sight word recognition: Locate resources for finding words in the classroom, including word walls, charts, labels, name tags, and picture dictionaries.

R.11.K.10. Word Study and vocabulary: Sort and classify pictures or objects by concept or function .

R.11.K.11. Word Study and vocabulary: Talk about words and word meanings as they are encountered in books and conversation.

R.11.K.12. Word Study and vocabulary: Experiment with language, including word families, rhyming words, and playing with words.

R.11.K.13. Word Study and vocabulary: Describe common objects with general and specific words.

R.11.K.14. Accuracy of reading: Read grade level texts with accuracy of 90% or above.

R.11.K.15. Accuracy of reading: Demonstrate automaticity of letter names and sounds .

R.11.K.16. Accuracy of reading: Self-monitor using cues to make sense of the reading.

R.11.K.17. Reading with fluency and expression: Demonstrate automaticity of letter names at a minimum of 40 letters per minute.

R.11.K.18. Reading with fluency and expression: Retell a favorite story using appropriate rhythm, pace, phrasing, and intonation.

AR.12. Inquiring/Researching: Researching/Inquiry Process: Students shall engage in inquiry and research to address questions, to make judgments about credibility, and to communicate findings in ways that suit the purpose and audience.

IR.12.K.1. Accessing information: Label objects and places.

IR.12.K.2. Accessing information: Understand the use of the library and access appropriate materials.

IR.12.K.3. Accessing information: Use both print and non-print classroom resources for information.

IR.12.K.4. Interpreting Information: Share information about a topic.