South Carolina State Standards for Language Arts: Kindergarten

SC.K-1. Reading - Understanding and Using Literary Texts: The student will begin to read and comprehend a variety of literary texts in print and nonprint formats.

K-1.1. Summarize the main idea and details from literary texts read aloud.

K-1.2. Use pictures and words to make predictions regarding a story read aloud.

K-1.3. Understand that a narrator tells the story.

K-1.4. Find examples of sound devices (including onomatopoeia and alliteration) in texts read aloud.

K-1.5. Generate a retelling that identifies the characters and the setting in a story and relates the important events in sequential order.

K-1.6. Discuss how the author's choice of words affects the meaning of the text (for example, yell rather than said).

K-1.7. Use relevant details in summarizing stories read aloud.

K-1.8. Create responses to literary texts through a variety of methods (for example, writing, creative dramatics, and the visual and performing arts).

K-1.9. Recall the characteristics of fantasy.

K-1.10. Explain the cause of an event described in stories read aloud.

K-1.11. Read independently for pleasure.

SC.K-2. Reading - Understanding and Using Informational Texts: The student will begin to read and comprehend a variety of informational texts in print and nonprint formats.

K-2.1. Summarize the central idea and details from informational texts read aloud.

K-2.2. Analyze texts during classroom discussions to make inferences.

K-2.3. Find facts in texts read aloud.

K-2.4. Create responses to informational texts through a variety of methods (for example, drawings, written work-s, and oral presentations).

K-2.5. Understand that headings and print styles (for example, italics, bold, larger type) provide information to the reader.

K-2.6. Understand graphic features (for example, illustrations and graphs).

K-2.7. Recognize tables of contents.

K-2.8. Explain the cause of an event described in a text read aloud.

K-2.9. Read independently to gain information.

SC.K-3. Reading - Learning to Read: The student will learn to read by applying appropriate skills and strategies.

K-3.1. Oral Language Acquisition and Vocabulary Development: Use pictures and context to construct the meaning of unfamiliar words in texts read aloud.

K-3.2. Oral Language Acquisition and Vocabulary Development: Create a different form of a familiar word by adding an -s or -ing ending.

K-3.3. Oral Language Acquisition and Vocabulary Development: Use vocabulary acquired from a variety of sources (including conversations, texts read aloud, and the media).

K-3.4. Oral Language Acquisition and Vocabulary Development: Recognize high-frequency words.

K-3.5. Understand that multiple small words can make compound words.

K-3.6. Fluency: Use oral rhymes, poems, and songs to build fluency.

K-3.7. Fluency: Use appropriate voice level when speaking.

K-3.8. Phonemic Awareness: Use beginning sounds, ending sounds, and onsets and rimes to generate words orally.

K-3.9. Phonemic Awareness: Create rhyming words in response to an oral prompt.

K-3.10. Phonemic Awareness: Create words by orally adding, deleting, or changing sounds.

K-3.11. Phonemic Awareness: Use blending to generate words orally.

K-3.12. Phonics: Match consonant and short-vowel sounds to the appropriate letters.

K-3.13. Phonics: Recognize uppercase and lowercase letters and their order in the alphabet.

K-3.14. Phonics: Identify beginning and ending sounds in words.

K-3.15. Phonics: Classify words by categories (for example, beginning and ending sounds).

K-3.16. Phonics: Use blending to begin reading words.

K-3.17. Phonics: Begin to spell high-frequency words.

K-3.18. Phonics: Use letters and relationships to sounds to write words.

K-3.19. Oral Language Acquisition and Comprehension Development: Use prior knowledge and life experiences to construct meaning from texts.

K-3.20. Oral Language Acquisition and Comprehension Development: Recognize environmental print in such forms as signs in the school, road signs, restaurant and store signs, and logos.

K-3.21. Concepts about Print: Know the parts of a book (including the front and back covers, the title, and the author's name).

K-3.22. Concepts about Print: Carry out left-to-right and top-to-bottom directionality on the printed page.

K-3.23. Concepts about Print: Distinguish between letters and words.

SC.K-4. Writing - Developing Written Communications: The student will begin to create written work- that has a clear focus, sufficient detail, coherent organization, effective use of voice, and correct use of the conventions of written Standard American English.

K-4.1. Oral Language Expression: Generate ideas for writing by using techniques (for example, participating in conversations and looking at pictures).

K-4.2. Oral Language Expression: Generate complete sentences orally.

K-4.3. Early Writing Development: Use pictures, letters, or words to tell a story from beginning to end.

K-4.4. Early Writing Development: Use letters and relationships to sounds to write words.

K-4.5. Early Writing Development: Begin to spell high-frequency words.

K-4.6. Early Writing Development: Understand that a person's name is a proper noun.

K-4.7. Early Writing Development: Edit writing with teacher support.

K-4.8. Early Writing Development: Revise writing with teacher support.

K-4.9. Early Writing Development: Use uppercase and lowercase letters.

K-4.10. Early Writing Development: Use appropriate letter formation when printing.

K-4.11. Early Writing Development: Identify sounds orally by segmenting words.

SC.K-5. Writing - Producing Written Communications in a Variety of Forms: The student will begin to write for a variety of purposes and audiences.

K-5.1. Use symbols (drawings, letters, and words) to create written communications (for example, notes, messages, and lists) to inform a specific audience.

K-5.2. Use symbols (drawings, letters, and words) to create narratives (for example, stories and journal entries) about people, places, or things.

K-5.3. Use symbols (drawings, letters, and words) to create descriptions of personal experiences, people, places, or things.

K-5.4. Use symbols (drawings, letters, and words) to create written pieces (for example, simple rhymes) to entertain others.

SC.K-6. Researching - Applying the Skiills of Inquiry and Oral Communication: The student will begin to access and use information from a variety of sources.

K-6.1. Generate how and why questions about a topic of interest.

K-6.2. Recognize that information can be found in print sources (for example, books, pictures, simple graphs, and charts) and nonprint sources (for example, videos, television, films, radio, and the internet).

K-6.3. Classify information by constructing categories (for example, living and nonliving things).

K-6.4. Use complete sentences when orally communicating with others.

K-6.5. Follow one-and two-step oral directions.