North Dakota State Standards for Language Arts: Kindergarten
Currently Perma-Bound only has suggested titles for grades K-8 in the Science and Social Studies areas. We are working on expanding this.
ND.K.1. Research: Students engage in the research process.
K.1.1. Planning/Research: Choose questions and ideas related to a topic of study.
K.1.2. Organizing Information: Use developmentally appropriate reference tools to gather information; e.g., picture dictionary, ABC chart, nonfiction books
ND.K.2. Reading: Students engage in the reading process.
K.2.1. Literary/Informational Genres: Recognize a variety of genres; i.e., fiction, nonfiction, fairy tales, poetry, and nursery rhymes.
K.2.2. Literary/Informational Genres: Identify the elements of a fiction text; i.e., character, setting, events, and ending.
K.2.3. Literary/Informational Genres: Demonstrate book handling knowledge; i.e., locate front of book, beginning and end of sentence and story.
K.2.4. Literary/Informational Genres: Demonstrate early reading behaviors; i.e., one-to-one match, directionality, locating letters and words, upper and lowercase letters, periods, and question marks, using authentic texts.
K.2.5. Literary/Informational Genres: Differentiate between fiction and non-fiction text features.
K.2.6. Literary/Informational Genres: Recognize various types of nonfiction books; i.e., newspapers, magazines, picture dictionaries, and other developmentally appropriate reference materials.
K.2.7. Phonological/Phonemic Awareness: Identify and manipulate individual phonemes (sounds) in a one syllable word (distinguishing initial and final consonant sounds and vowel sounds) /h/-/a/-/t/.
K.2.8. Phonological/Phonemic Awareness: Blend individual phonemes to make a one syllable word.
K.2.9. Phonological/Phonemic Awareness: Separate a one syllable word into its parts, onset and rime.
K.2.10. Phonological/Phonemic Awareness: Identify and create rhyming words.
K.2.11. Phonological/Phonemic Awareness: Know that words make up sentences and syllables make up words.
K.2.12. Phonics/Word Recognition: Recognize the relationship between letters and their sounds.
K.2.13. Phonics/Word Recognition: State sounds for all letters in isolation.
K.2.14. Phonics/Word Recognition: Know that letters go together to make words
K.2.15. Phonics/Word Recognition: Use knowledge of phonics to decode words
K.2.16. Phonics/Word Recognition: Identify and name upper and lower case letters
K.2.17. Comprehension/Reading Strategies for Meaning: Make and confirm/disconfirm predictions about what will happen in a story
K.2.18. Comprehension/Reading Strategies for Meaning: Recall/retell information in sequence
K.2.19. Comprehension/Reading Strategies for Meaning: State text-to-self connection.
K.2.20. Purposes for Reading: Use reading to be informed and/or entertained with shared reading texts; e.g., big books, charts, poems, guided reading books.
ND.K.3. Writing: Students engage in the writing process.
K.3.1. Prewriting: Identify audience and purposes for writing.
K.3.2. Prewriting: Discuss ideas drawn from personal experience.
K.3.3. Prewriting: Use developmentally appropriate tools for prewriting; e.g., ABC chart, word walls, environmental print.
K.3.4. Drafting: Write from left to right.
K.3.5. Drafting: Use consonant sounds at beginnings and ends of words.
K.3.6. Drafting: Use some easy-to-hear vowels.
K.3.7. Drafting: Use spaces to separate words.
K.3.8. Drafting: Incorporate developmentally appropriate vocabulary in writing.
K.3.9. Drafting: Communicate meaning through drawing; e.g., setting, characters.
K.3.10. Drafting: Match story with drawing.
K.3.11. Drafting: Read their own writing.
K.3.12. Publication/Presentation: Share published work with peers, teachers, and family members
ND.K.4. Speaking and Listening: Students engage in the speaking and listening process.
K.4.1. Verbal and Nonverbal Communication: Use developmentally appropriate speaking vocabulary, including words that describe people, places, things, locations, and actions.
K.4.2. Verbal and Nonverbal Communication: Actively listen to the speaker.
K.4.3. Verbal and Nonverbal Communication: Follow one and two step directions.
K.4.4. Conversation, Group Discussion, and Oral Presentation: Respond to peers in conversations.
K.4.5. Conversation, Group Discussion, and Oral Presentation: Take turns speaking in conversations.
K.4.6. Conversation, Group Discussion, and Oral Presentation: Formulate and respond appropriately to questions.
ND.K.5. Media: Students understand media.
K.5.1. Media Genres: Identify existing and developing media; i.e., books, newspapers, television, and computer programs.
K.6.2. Language Convention/Mechanics: Use conventions of punctuation, i.e., period.
ND.K.6. Language: Students understand and use principles of language.
K.6.1. Language Convention/Mechanics: Use sentences to convey a message.
K.6.3. Language Convention/Mechanics: Use pre-phonemic knowledge, letter sounds, knowledge of letter names, and commonly used words to spell independently.