PRE-K LANGUAGE ARTS STANDARDS - READING	KINDERGARTEN LANGUAGE ARTS STANDARDS - READING	FIRST GRADE LANGUAGE ARTS STANDARDS - READING	SECOND GRADE	THIRD GRADE	FOURTH GRADE
Comprehension (Listening and/or Reading)	Comprehension (Listening and/or Reading)	Comprehension (Listening and/or Reading)	Comprehension (Listening and/or Reading)	Comprehension (Listening and/or Reading)	Comprehension (Listening and/or Reading)
Identify and supply rhyming words	Identify and supply rhyming words	Identify and supply rhyming words	Identify and supply rhyming words	Identify and supply rhyming words
Identify initial and final sounds in spoken words	Identify initial, final, and medial sounds in spoken words	Identify initial, final and medial sounds in spoken words	Detect spoken syllables	Detect spoken syllables
Begin to identify the medial sounds in spoken words	Detect spoken syllables	Detect spoken syllables
	Engage in word play	Use strategies to form different words
		Engage in word play
Phonics	Phonics	Phonics	Phonics	Phonics	Phonics
Recite the alphabet	Recite the alphabet	Identify and apply letter names and sounds - consonants, short and long vowel sounds, consonant blends and vowel digraphs, y as a vowel	Begin to investigate the use of roots and affixes in contextual analysis	Use analogy - roots and affixes
Identify uppercase and lowercase letters	Identify uppercase and lowercase letters	Read plurals - 's, 'es, 'ies	Read atypical patterns - silent letters, digraphs(ph), diphthongs(ou)	Read atypical patterns
Identify letter sounds	Identify letter and sounds - consonants, short vowel sounds, blends and digraphs	Read contractions - n't, 's, 'll	Read prefix, root and suffix word parts	Read prefix, root and suffix word parts
		Use "ed" and "ing" endings		Engage in word play
		Decode words
		Read compound words
Word Recognition	Word Recognition	Word Recognition	Word Recognition	Word Recognition	Word Recognition
Recognize familiar words - first name, personal words, sight words	Identify familiar words - first and last names, personal words	Read familiar words - personal words	Demonstrate sight words automatically - personal and high frequency words	Continue to build sight words automatically - personal and high frequency words
Recognize labels	Identify high frequency sight words	Read high frequency sight words
	Recognize color words, number words,  days and months	Read and recognize labels
Vocabulary	Vocabulary	Vocabulary	Vocabulary	Vocabulary	Vocabulary
Increase knowledge of content area words related to thematic studies	Identify content area words	Read thematic, content area, direction, positional, and classification and category words	Demonstrate word awareness and interest	Demonstrate word awareness and interest	Demonstrate word awareness and interest
Expand oral vocabulary	Use and identify classroom words	Identify homonyms, antonyms, synonyms	Read thematic, content area, classification and category words	Read thematic, content area, classification and category words	Read thematic, content area, classification and category words
	Recognize positional words and opposites	Recognize multiple meaning words	Identify multiple meaning words	Identify multiple meaning words	Identify multiple meaning words
	Become familiar with classifying and categorizing words		Recognize simile, synonym, homonym, homophone	Recognize idiom, simile, metaphor, antonym, synonym, homonym, homophone	Recognize idiom, simile, metaphor, antonym, synonym, homonym, homophone
			Use reference materials - glossary, dictionary, thesaurus	Use reference materials - glossary, dictionary, thesaurus	Use reference materials - glossary, dictionary, thesaurus
				Use word analogies	Use word analogies
Fluency (through nursery rhymes, poems, songs, chants, Big Books and familiar individual books)	Fluency (through nursery rhymes, poems, songs, chants, Big Books and familiar individual books)	Fluency (through nursery rhymes, poems, songs, chants, Big Books and familiar individual books)	Fluency (through nursery rhymes, poems, songs, chants, Big Books and familiar individual books)	Fluency (through nursery rhymes, poems, songs, chants, Big Books and familiar individual books)	Fluency (through nursery rhymes, poems, songs, chants, Big Books and familiar individual books)
Increase knowledge of content area words related to thematic studies	Participate in shared reading as a group member	Participate in choral reading as a group member	Participate in choral reading as a group member	Participate in choral reading as a group member	Participate in choral reading as a group member
Expand oral vocabulary	Recognize repeated readings of familiar texts	Engage in repeated reading of familiar texts	Engage in repeated reading of familiar texts	Engage in repeated reading of familiar texts	Engage in repeated reading of familiar texts
	Recite familiar texts	Recite familiar texts	Recite familiar texts	Recite familiar texts	Recite familiar texts
		Read and respond to punctuation	Read and respond to punctuation	Read and respond to punctuation	Read and respond to punctuation
		Develop reading rate appropriate to text	Develop reading rate appropriate to text	Develop reading rate appropriate to text	Develop reading rate appropriate to text
			Understand phrasing	Understand phrasing	Understand phrasing
			Develop intonation and expression	Develop intonation and expression	Develop intonation and expression
Identification and Use of Book Parts/Concepts of Print	Identification and Use of Book Parts/Concepts of Print	Identification and Use of Book Parts/Concepts of Print	Identification and Use of Book Parts/Concepts of Print	Identification and Use of Book Parts/Concepts of Print	Identification and Use of Book Parts/Concepts of Print
Distinguish between letters, words and sentences	Demonstrate left to right tracking	Strengthen concepts of print	Recognize text conventions for non-fiction - table of contents, glossary, caption, diagram, heading/sub-heading, index		Recognize text conventions for non-fiction - table of contents, glossary, caption, diagram, heading/sub-heading, index
Realize that print carries the message	Demonstrate top to bottom directionality	Distinguish between letters, words and sentences	Locate title, author, illustrator, title page, copyright of text		Continue to develop research skills - skimming, scanning, paraphrasing, basic note taking, alphabetical order
Begin to track print from left to right and top to bottom	Distinguish between letters, words and sentences	Read word by word - 1:1 correspondence	Begin research - paraphrasing, basic note taking, alphabetical order
	Demonstrate page turning	Use alphabetical order
	Realize that print carries the message	Use table of contents
	Point word by word - 1:1 correspondence	Locate title, author, illustrator, title page, copyright of text