The Common Core in Iowa

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Skills available for Iowa pre-K language arts standards

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6.2 Early Literacy

6.2.PS Children engage in early reading experiences.
- 6.2.PS.1 expresses an interest and enjoyment in listening to books and attempts to read familiar books (print motivation)
- 6.2.PS.2 displays book handling knowledge by turning the book right side up, turning one page at a time, recognizing familiar books by the cover, pointing to words as they talk about or retell stories using books, and using left to right sweep (print awareness)
  - Identify book parts and features (P-I.1)
- 6.2.PS.3 shows an awareness of print such as pointing to familiar words or letters (print awareness)
- 6.2.PS.4 understands sentences are made of words and words are made of individual letters (concepts of print)
  - Choose the sentence that is spaced correctly (P-C.2)
  - Find a word in a sentence (P-C.3)
- 6.2.PS.5 understands increasingly and uses a variety of words (vocabulary)
- 6.2.PS.6 shows increasing comprehension of a story through retelling the story and/or recognizing story elements such as the plot or characters (comprehension and story retelling)
- 6.2.PS.7 recognizes increasingly and names more of the letters in their first and last name and letters they see frequently (letter knowledge)
  - Choose the lowercase letter that matches: c, k, o, p, s, u, v, w, x, z (P-B.1)
  - Choose the uppercase letter that matches: C, K, O, P, S, U, V, W, X, Z (P-B.4)
- 6.2.PS.8 recognizes most upper and lower case letters (letter knowledge)
- 6.2.PS.9 produces the sound of some of the letters she or he knows (phonics)
- 6.2.PS.10 identifies words that rhyme from a group of three words: cat, rug, hat (phonological awareness - rhyme)
  - Which two words have the same ending? (P-D.2)
  - Choose the picture that rhymes with the word (P-D.3)
- 6.2.PS.11 identifies the beginning sound in words, such as identifying two words that start with the same sound (phonological awareness – alliteration)
- 6.2.PS.12 identifies the syllables in his or her name and in familiar objects or words by clapping and segmenting the syllables (phonological awareness – segmenting syllables)
  - Put the sounds in order (P-E.4)
- 6.2.PS.13 blends syllables to identify a word, object, or picture (phonological awareness – blending syllables)
  - Blend each sound in a word together (P-E.2)

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6.2 Early Literacy

6.2.PS Children engage in early reading experiences.

6.2.PS.1 expresses an interest and enjoyment in listening to books and attempts to read familiar books (print motivation)

6.2.PS.2 displays book handling knowledge by turning the book right side up, turning one page at a time, recognizing familiar books by the cover, pointing to words as they talk about or retell stories using books, and using left to right sweep (print awareness)

6.2.PS.3 shows an awareness of print such as pointing to familiar words or letters (print awareness)

6.2.PS.4 understands sentences are made of words and words are made of individual letters (concepts of print)

6.2.PS.5 understands increasingly and uses a variety of words (vocabulary)

6.2.PS.6 shows increasing comprehension of a story through retelling the story and/or recognizing story elements such as the plot or characters (comprehension and story retelling)

6.2.PS.7 recognizes increasingly and names more of the letters in their first and last name and letters they see frequently (letter knowledge)

6.2.PS.8 recognizes most upper and lower case letters (letter knowledge)

6.2.PS.9 produces the sound of some of the letters she or he knows (phonics)

6.2.PS.10 identifies words that rhyme from a group of three words: cat, rug, hat (phonological awareness - rhyme)

6.2.PS.11 identifies the beginning sound in words, such as identifying two words that start with the same sound (phonological awareness – alliteration)

6.2.PS.12 identifies the syllables in his or her name and in familiar objects or words by clapping and segmenting the syllables (phonological awareness – segmenting syllables)

6.2.PS.13 blends syllables to identify a word, object, or picture (phonological awareness – blending syllables)