Common Core Standards for Kindergarten: Kid and Parent Friendly
English Language Arts Standards
Reading Literature
-With help I can ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
-With help I can retell what I read, using key details.
-With help, I can tell you about characters, settings and the main parts of the story.
-I can ask and answer questions about words I don’t know in the text.
-I can recognize different types of texts, including stories, poems, fantasy and real texts.
-With help I can name the author, illustrator and tell you what each one does to help tell the story.
-With help, I can describe the relationship between the pictures and the story.
-With help, I can compare and contrast what happens to the characters in the story.
-I can read stories in a group and use what I already know to connect to the text and use the pictures and situations to make predictions about the story.
Reading Informational Text
-With help I can ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
-With help I can retell what I read, using key details and tell you what the story is mostly about.
-With help, I can tell you about the connection between two characters, events, ideas or pieces of information in a story.
-With help, I can ask and answer questions about words I don’t know in the story.
-I know how to find the front and back cover of a book and where the title page is.
-I can tell you who wrote the story and who did the pictures and how they worked together to make the story.
-With help, I can tell you how the pictures and the story are connected.
-With help, I can tell you reasons why the writer said a certain thing in the story.
-With help, I can tell you what is different and the same in two similar stories.
-I can read stories in a group and use what I already know to connect to the text and use the pictures and situations to make predictions about the story.
Reading Foundational Skills
-I can follow words from right to left, top to bottom and page to page.
-I know that the words we say can be written with letters in a certain way.
-I know that words need to have spaces between them in a sentence.
-I know all the names of the upper and lower case letters.
-I know what a rhyming word is and can make up rhyming words.
-I can count, say, blend, and separate syllables in words that I say.
-I can blend and separate onsets and rimes of words with one syllable.
-I can blend two or three sounds into words that I know
-I can isolate and say the beginning, middle, and ending sounds in a word.
-I can change a sound in a word to make a new word.
-I can make the sound of each letter
-I know that vowels have both long and short sounds and can show you how they are spelled.
-I know all of my sight words.
-I can tell the difference between similar words by the way they are spelled.
-I can read books by myself and know what the story is about.
Writing
-I can tell you what I think about a book by writing about it, telling you about it, or drawing a picture about it.
-I can tell you what I am writing about and tell you some information about what I am writing and make a story that informs or explains something by writing about it, telling you about it, or drawing a picture about it.
-I can put a story together about one thing, or a couple of things that happened and tell you about the things in order and tell you how I felt about it by writing about it, telling you about it, or drawing a picture about it.
-With help, I can answer questions and suggestions from my friends about how to make my writing better.
-With help, I can use different tools to help me publish my writing, including working with my friends, and the computer.
-I can work with my friends to write or do research.
-With help, I can remember information about something I did, or gather information to answer a question.
Speaking and Listening
-I can talk about kindergarten things with grown-ups and other children
-I can follow the rules when I talk about things
-I can go back and continue a conversation we had earlier.
-I show that I learned something in a story or from someone by talking about it and answering questions about what I learned.
-I can follow one and two step directions.
-I can ask and answer questions to get help, learn something, or to clear something up.
-With help, I can describe people, places, things and events with some details.
-I can add drawings or other things to give more details to what I talk about.
-I can speak loud and clear and tell you what I am thinking and feeling.
Language
-I can print upper and lower case letters.
-I can use nouns and verbs when writing or speaking.
-I can make a noun into a plural noun by adding /s/ when I say it.
-I understand question words and know how to use them (5W & H)
-I can use prepositions correctly.
-I can speak and write using complex sentences.
-I know when to capitalize a word
-I know what punctuation to put at the end of a sentence.
-I can write the letter(s) for most of the sounds.
-I can sound out words and write them.
-I can tell the meaning of a word when you use it in a different way
-I can use what I know about words as a clue to figure out new words.
-With help, I can sort objects into categories.
-I can show you that I understand certain words by saying the opposite word.
-I can find real-life connections between words and what they are used for.
-I can tell the difference between action words that are talking about the same thing.
-I can use words and phrases that I learned from reading, listening to stories, and talking with others.
Mathematics Standards
Counting and Cardinality
-I can count to 100 by ones and tens.
-I can count forward from any number, not just 1.
-I can write my numbers up to 20.
-I know that numbers are connected to how many things you have.
-When I count something, I know that each number goes with one and only one amount.
-I know that the last number that I say tells me how many things I counted.
-I know that each number is 1 bigger than the number before.
-I can count items to tell you how many, up to 20 things, if they are lined up. If they are mixed up, I can tell you how many up to 10 things.
-I can tell you if a group of things is more, less, or the same as another group.
-I can compare two numbers between 1 and 10.
Operations and Algebraic Thinking
-I can add and subtract in many different ways.
-I can add and subtract word problems up to 10.
-I can break down a number, up to 10, into pairs in more than one way.
-I can find the missing number that will add up to 10.
-I can add and subtract up to 10.
Number and Operations in Base Ten
-I can break apart and put together numbers between 11 and 19 using ten frames.
Measurement and Data
-I can describe an object by its attributes such as length and weight.
-I can compare two objects by an attribute and see which one is more or less than the other and tell you about the differences.
-I can group objects into categories, count the objects in the group, and sort the groups by how many.
-I can show you that I understand about time.
-I know the days of the week.
-I know the time I do everyday things.
Geometry
-I can tell you about objects around me by describing what their shapes are and where they are.
-I can name shapes no matter their size or direction.
-I can tell you about flat and solid shapes
-I can compare flat and solid shapes by using my words to tell about what is the same, different, parts and other common things.
-I can build a model of a shape from the world by building it from objects and drawing it.
-I can build a large shape from smaller shapes.
Reading Literature
-With help I can ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
-With help I can retell what I read, using key details.
-With help, I can tell you about characters, settings and the main parts of the story.
-I can ask and answer questions about words I don’t know in the text.
-I can recognize different types of texts, including stories, poems, fantasy and real texts.
-With help I can name the author, illustrator and tell you what each one does to help tell the story.
-With help, I can describe the relationship between the pictures and the story.
-With help, I can compare and contrast what happens to the characters in the story.
-I can read stories in a group and use what I already know to connect to the text and use the pictures and situations to make predictions about the story.
Reading Informational Text
-With help I can ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
-With help I can retell what I read, using key details and tell you what the story is mostly about.
-With help, I can tell you about the connection between two characters, events, ideas or pieces of information in a story.
-With help, I can ask and answer questions about words I don’t know in the story.
-I know how to find the front and back cover of a book and where the title page is.
-I can tell you who wrote the story and who did the pictures and how they worked together to make the story.
-With help, I can tell you how the pictures and the story are connected.
-With help, I can tell you reasons why the writer said a certain thing in the story.
-With help, I can tell you what is different and the same in two similar stories.
-I can read stories in a group and use what I already know to connect to the text and use the pictures and situations to make predictions about the story.
Reading Foundational Skills
-I can follow words from right to left, top to bottom and page to page.
-I know that the words we say can be written with letters in a certain way.
-I know that words need to have spaces between them in a sentence.
-I know all the names of the upper and lower case letters.
-I know what a rhyming word is and can make up rhyming words.
-I can count, say, blend, and separate syllables in words that I say.
-I can blend and separate onsets and rimes of words with one syllable.
-I can blend two or three sounds into words that I know
-I can isolate and say the beginning, middle, and ending sounds in a word.
-I can change a sound in a word to make a new word.
-I can make the sound of each letter
-I know that vowels have both long and short sounds and can show you how they are spelled.
-I know all of my sight words.
-I can tell the difference between similar words by the way they are spelled.
-I can read books by myself and know what the story is about.
Writing
-I can tell you what I think about a book by writing about it, telling you about it, or drawing a picture about it.
-I can tell you what I am writing about and tell you some information about what I am writing and make a story that informs or explains something by writing about it, telling you about it, or drawing a picture about it.
-I can put a story together about one thing, or a couple of things that happened and tell you about the things in order and tell you how I felt about it by writing about it, telling you about it, or drawing a picture about it.
-With help, I can answer questions and suggestions from my friends about how to make my writing better.
-With help, I can use different tools to help me publish my writing, including working with my friends, and the computer.
-I can work with my friends to write or do research.
-With help, I can remember information about something I did, or gather information to answer a question.
Speaking and Listening
-I can talk about kindergarten things with grown-ups and other children
-I can follow the rules when I talk about things
-I can go back and continue a conversation we had earlier.
-I show that I learned something in a story or from someone by talking about it and answering questions about what I learned.
-I can follow one and two step directions.
-I can ask and answer questions to get help, learn something, or to clear something up.
-With help, I can describe people, places, things and events with some details.
-I can add drawings or other things to give more details to what I talk about.
-I can speak loud and clear and tell you what I am thinking and feeling.
Language
-I can print upper and lower case letters.
-I can use nouns and verbs when writing or speaking.
-I can make a noun into a plural noun by adding /s/ when I say it.
-I understand question words and know how to use them (5W & H)
-I can use prepositions correctly.
-I can speak and write using complex sentences.
-I know when to capitalize a word
-I know what punctuation to put at the end of a sentence.
-I can write the letter(s) for most of the sounds.
-I can sound out words and write them.
-I can tell the meaning of a word when you use it in a different way
-I can use what I know about words as a clue to figure out new words.
-With help, I can sort objects into categories.
-I can show you that I understand certain words by saying the opposite word.
-I can find real-life connections between words and what they are used for.
-I can tell the difference between action words that are talking about the same thing.
-I can use words and phrases that I learned from reading, listening to stories, and talking with others.
Mathematics Standards
Counting and Cardinality
-I can count to 100 by ones and tens.
-I can count forward from any number, not just 1.
-I can write my numbers up to 20.
-I know that numbers are connected to how many things you have.
-When I count something, I know that each number goes with one and only one amount.
-I know that the last number that I say tells me how many things I counted.
-I know that each number is 1 bigger than the number before.
-I can count items to tell you how many, up to 20 things, if they are lined up. If they are mixed up, I can tell you how many up to 10 things.
-I can tell you if a group of things is more, less, or the same as another group.
-I can compare two numbers between 1 and 10.
Operations and Algebraic Thinking
-I can add and subtract in many different ways.
-I can add and subtract word problems up to 10.
-I can break down a number, up to 10, into pairs in more than one way.
-I can find the missing number that will add up to 10.
-I can add and subtract up to 10.
Number and Operations in Base Ten
-I can break apart and put together numbers between 11 and 19 using ten frames.
Measurement and Data
-I can describe an object by its attributes such as length and weight.
-I can compare two objects by an attribute and see which one is more or less than the other and tell you about the differences.
-I can group objects into categories, count the objects in the group, and sort the groups by how many.
-I can show you that I understand about time.
-I know the days of the week.
-I know the time I do everyday things.
Geometry
-I can tell you about objects around me by describing what their shapes are and where they are.
-I can name shapes no matter their size or direction.
-I can tell you about flat and solid shapes
-I can compare flat and solid shapes by using my words to tell about what is the same, different, parts and other common things.
-I can build a model of a shape from the world by building it from objects and drawing it.
-I can build a large shape from smaller shapes.