The Common Core in D.C.

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Skills available for District of Columbia pre-K language arts standards

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9 Demonstrates understanding of print concepts

Print Concepts
- 9a With guidance and support, demonstrates a basic understanding of the organization and features of print
  - Choose the sentence that is spaced correctly (P-C.2)
  - Identify book parts and features (P-I.1)
- 9b Recognizes that spoken language can be written and read and that written language can be read and spoken
  - Find a word in a sentence (P-C.3)
- 9c Recognizes and names 10 or more letters of the alphabet

10 Demonstrates comprehension of printed materials read aloud

Literature and Informational Texts Key Ideas and Details
- 10a With prompting and support, asks and answers questions about key details of a story, poem or informational text read aloud
- 10b With prompting and support, retells a sequence of events from a familiar story read aloud or important facts from an informational text read aloud
  - What will happen next? (P-K.2)
  - Order images in a story (1-V.1)
- 10c With prompting and support, identifies the characters and settings of a story read aloud
Craft and Structure
- 10d With prompting and support, asks and answers questions about unfamiliar words in a story, poem or informational text read aloud
- 10e With prompting and support, names the author and illustrator of a familiar book and defines the role of each in telling the story
- 10f Recognizes familiar books by their covers
Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
- 10g After hearing a story read aloud, looks at the illustrations and with prompting and support, explains the part of the story that each illustration depicts
  - Which feeling matches the picture? (P-K.1)
  - What will happen next? (P-K.2)
- 10h After hearing an informational text read aloud, looks at illustrations and explains important ideas in the picture
  - What is the picture about? (K-T.1)

11 Hears and discriminates the sounds of English and/or home language(s).

Phonological Awareness/Phonics and Word Recognition
- 11a Shows awareness of separate words in a sentence
  - Choose the sentence that is spaced correctly (P-C.2)
- 11b Decides whether two words rhyme
  - Choose the picture that rhymes with the word (P-D.3)
- 11c Identifies the initial sound of a spoken word and with guidance and support, thinks of several other words that have the same initial sound
- 11d Shows awareness of separate syllables in a word

12 Writes letters and words

Production and Distribution of Writing
- 12a Begins to invent spelling while writing to convey a message with prompting and support

13 Understands the purpose of writing and drawing

Text Types and Purposes
- 13a Dictates words or draws to express a preference or opinion about a topic
- 13b Uses a combination of dictating and drawing to tell some information about a topic
- 13c Uses a combination of dictation and drawing to tell a real or imagined story
  - Order images in a story (1-V.1)

The Common Core in D.C.

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9 Demonstrates understanding of print concepts

Print Concepts

9a With guidance and support, demonstrates a basic understanding of the organization and features of print

9b Recognizes that spoken language can be written and read and that written language can be read and spoken

9c Recognizes and names 10 or more letters of the alphabet

10 Demonstrates comprehension of printed materials read aloud

Literature and Informational Texts Key Ideas and Details

10a With prompting and support, asks and answers questions about key details of a story, poem or informational text read aloud

10b With prompting and support, retells a sequence of events from a familiar story read aloud or important facts from an informational text read aloud

10c With prompting and support, identifies the characters and settings of a story read aloud

Craft and Structure

10d With prompting and support, asks and answers questions about unfamiliar words in a story, poem or informational text read aloud

10e With prompting and support, names the author and illustrator of a familiar book and defines the role of each in telling the story

10f Recognizes familiar books by their covers

Integration of Knowledge and Ideas

10g After hearing a story read aloud, looks at the illustrations and with prompting and support, explains the part of the story that each illustration depicts

10h After hearing an informational text read aloud, looks at illustrations and explains important ideas in the picture

11 Hears and discriminates the sounds of English and/or home language(s).

Phonological Awareness/Phonics and Word Recognition

11a Shows awareness of separate words in a sentence

11b Decides whether two words rhyme

11c Identifies the initial sound of a spoken word and with guidance and support, thinks of several other words that have the same initial sound

11d Shows awareness of separate syllables in a word

12 Writes letters and words

Production and Distribution of Writing

12a Begins to invent spelling while writing to convey a message with prompting and support

13 Understands the purpose of writing and drawing

Text Types and Purposes

13a Dictates words or draws to express a preference or opinion about a topic

13b Uses a combination of dictating and drawing to tell some information about a topic

13c Uses a combination of dictation and drawing to tell a real or imagined story