The Common Core in California

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Skills available for California pre-K language arts standards

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Listening and Speaking

1.0 Children understand and use language to communicate with others effectively.
- 1.1 Use language to communicate with others in familiar social situations for a variety of basic purposes, including describing, requesting, commenting, acknowledging, greeting, and rejecting.
- 1.2 Speak clearly enough to be understood by familiar adults and children.
- 1.3 Use accepted language and style during communication with familiar adults and children.
- 1.4 Use language to construct short narratives that are real or fictional.
2.0 Children develop age-appropriate vocabulary.
- 2.1 Understand and use accepted words for objects, actions, and attributes encountered frequently in both real and symbolic contexts.
- 2.2 Understand and use accepted words for categories of objects encountered and used frequently in everyday life.
- 2.3 Understand and use simple words that describe the relations between objects.
3.0 Children develop age-appropriate grammar.
- 3.1 Understand and use increasingly complex and longer sentences, including sentences that combine two phrases or two to three concepts to communicate ideas.
- 3.2 Understand and typically use age-appropriate grammar, including accepted word forms, such as subject-verb agreement, progressive tense, regular past tense, regular plurals, pronouns, and possessives.

Reading

1.0 Children begin to recognize print conventions and understand that print carries meaning.
- 1.1 Begin to display appropriate book-handling behaviors and begin to recognize print conventions.
  - Identify book parts and features (P-I.1)
- 1.2 Recognize print as something that can be read.
2.0 Phonological Awareness
3.0 Children begin to recognize letters of the alphabet.
- 3.1 Recognize the first letter of own name.
- 3.2 Match some letter names to their printed form.
4.0 Children demonstrate understanding of age-appropriate text read aloud.
- 4.1 Demonstrate knowledge of main characters or events in a familiar story (e.g., who, what, where) through answering questions (e.g., recall and simple inferencing), retelling, or creating artwork.
  - Which feeling matches the picture? (P-K.1)
  - What will happen next? (P-K.2)
- 4.2 Demonstrate knowledge from informational text through labeling, describing, playing, or creating artwork.
5.0 Children demonstrate motivation for literacy activities.
- 5.1 Demonstrate enjoyment of literacy and literacy-related activities.
- 5.2 Engage in routines associated with literacy activities.
  - Identify book parts and features (P-I.1)

Writing

1.0 Children demonstrate emergent writing skills.
- 1.1 Experiment with grasp and body position using a variety of drawing and writing tools.
- 1.2 Write using scribbles that are different from pictures.
- 1.3 Write marks to represent own name.

The Common Core in California

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Listening and Speaking

1.0 Children understand and use language to communicate with others effectively.

1.1 Use language to communicate with others in familiar social situations for a variety of basic purposes, including describing, requesting, commenting, acknowledging, greeting, and rejecting.

1.2 Speak clearly enough to be understood by familiar adults and children.

1.3 Use accepted language and style during communication with familiar adults and children.

1.4 Use language to construct short narratives that are real or fictional.

2.0 Children develop age-appropriate vocabulary.

2.1 Understand and use accepted words for objects, actions, and attributes encountered frequently in both real and symbolic contexts.

2.2 Understand and use accepted words for categories of objects encountered and used frequently in everyday life.

2.3 Understand and use simple words that describe the relations between objects.

3.0 Children develop age-appropriate grammar.

3.1 Understand and use increasingly complex and longer sentences, including sentences that combine two phrases or two to three concepts to communicate ideas.

3.2 Understand and typically use age-appropriate grammar, including accepted word forms, such as subject-verb agreement, progressive tense, regular past tense, regular plurals, pronouns, and possessives.

Reading

1.0 Children begin to recognize print conventions and understand that print carries meaning.

1.1 Begin to display appropriate book-handling behaviors and begin to recognize print conventions.

1.2 Recognize print as something that can be read.

2.0 Phonological Awareness

3.0 Children begin to recognize letters of the alphabet.

3.1 Recognize the first letter of own name.

3.2 Match some letter names to their printed form.

4.0 Children demonstrate understanding of age-appropriate text read aloud.

4.1 Demonstrate knowledge of main characters or events in a familiar story (e.g., who, what, where) through answering questions (e.g., recall and simple inferencing), retelling, or creating artwork.

4.2 Demonstrate knowledge from informational text through labeling, describing, playing, or creating artwork.

5.0 Children demonstrate motivation for literacy activities.

5.1 Demonstrate enjoyment of literacy and literacy-related activities.

5.2 Engage in routines associated with literacy activities.

Writing

1.0 Children demonstrate emergent writing skills.

1.1 Experiment with grasp and body position using a variety of drawing and writing tools.

1.2 Write using scribbles that are different from pictures.

1.3 Write marks to represent own name.