New Mexico State Standards for Language Arts: Kindergarten

NM.I: Reading and listening for comprehension. Students will apply strategies and skills to comprehend information that is read, heard and viewed.

1-A: Listen to, read, react to and retell information:

1-A:1. Retell, reenact, or dramatize stories or parts of stories, including personal events.

1-A:2. Demonstrate sense of story (e.g., beginning, middle, end, characters, details).

1-A:3. Demonstrate familiarity with a variety of types of books and selections (e.g., picture books, caption books, short informational texts, nursery rhymes, word/finger/puppet plays, reenactments of familiar stories).

1-A:4. Role-play and act out stories (e.g., fairy tales, songs, rhymes).

1-A:5. Follow simple oral instructions.

I-B: Locate and use a variety of resources to acquire information across the curriculum.

I-B:1. Demonstrate familiarity with a variety of types of resources (e.g., picture books, caption books, short informational texts, nursery rhymes, word/finger/puppet plays, reenactment of familiar stories, electronic resources).

I-B:2. Generate questions of interest about a topic.

I-C: Demonstrate critical thinking skills to comprehend written, spoken, and visual information.

I-C:1. Understand oral and graphic instructions.

I-C:2. Create mental pictures to predict possible events in text before and during reading.

I-C:3. Compare different versions of the same story.

I-C:4. Relate experiences and observations.

I-C:5. Formulate questions before beginning to read or listen (e.g., What will happen in this story? Where do you think this happens? Who might this be?).

I-C:6. Sequence a story to describe the beginning, middle and end.

I-C:7. Differentiate between non-fiction and fiction stories.

I-D: Acquire reading strategies which include phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary and comprehension.

I-D:1. Demonstrate phonemic awareness and knowledge of alphabetic principles by:

I-D:1.a. demonstrating understanding that spoken language is a sequence of identifiable speech sounds,

I-D:1.b. demonstrating understanding that the sequence of letters in the written word represents the sequence of sounds in the spoken word, and

I-D:1.c. demonstrating understanding the sounds of letters and the understanding that words contain similar sounds by recognizing and producing initial sounds and by verbally producing individual phonemes from a series of three and four phoneme words.

I-D:2. Demonstrate decoding and word recognition strategies and skills by:

I-D:2.a. recognizing and name upper and lower case letters of the alphabet,

I-D:2.b. recognizing common words and signs by sight,

I-D:2.c. recognizing beginning consonant letter-sound associations in one-syllable words,

I-D:2.d. identifying upper and lower case letters from a random arrangement, and

I-D:2.e. producing verbally the individual letter sound when presented with v-c and c-v-c combinations.

I-D:3. Read or attempt to read one's own dictated story.

I-D:4. Attempt to read simple patterned text and predict texts using letter-sound knowledge and pictures to construct meaning.

I-D:5. Use appropriate nouns to name objects.

NM.II: Writing and speaking for expression. Students will communicate effectively through speaking and writing.

II-A: Demonstrate competence in speaking to convey information.

II-A:1. Retell, reenact or dramatize stories or parts of stories, including personal events.

II-A:2. Use correct words to name objects or tell actions.

II-A:3. Use speaking skills to connect experiences by:

II-A:3.a. listening to and retelling stories,

II-A:3.b. discussing and dramatizing stories,

II-A:3.c. discovering relationships,

II-A:3.d. taking turns,

II-A:3.e. expressing ideas, and

II-A:3.f. asking questions.

II-A:4. Use a variety of sentence patterns.

II-A:5. Ask questions to resolve confusion about a topic.

II-A:6. Clarify and sort words by general categories.

II-B: Apply grammatical and language conventions to communicate.

II-B:1. Locate the title, table of contents, names of author and illustrator of a text.

II-B:2. Use pictures and context to make predictions about story content.

II-B:3. Connect information and events in a text to make predictions.

II-B:4. Ask and answer questions about essential elements in a text.

II-B:5. Recognize and make complete, coherent sentences when speaking.

II-B:6. Share information and ideas using complete sentences.

II-B:7. Develop spelling strategies and skills by:

II-B:7.a. representing spoken language with emergent or conventional spelling,

II-B:7.b. writing most letters of the alphabet,

II-B:7.c. analyzing sounds in a word, and

II-B:7.d. writing dominant consonant letters.

II-B:8. Identify and use capital letters to write the word ''I'' and the first letter in one's own name.

II-C: Demonstrate competence in the skills and strategies of the writing process.

II-C:1. Develop writing strategies and skills by:

II-C:1.a. representing spoken language with temporary or conventional spelling,

II-C:1.b. writing most letters of the alphabet when they are dictated,

II-C:1.c. analyzing sounds in a word and writing dominant consonant letters, and

II-C:1.d. using phonemic awareness and letter recognition to spell independently (using standard or emergent spelling).

II-C:2. Dictate a story based on one's own experience with a beginning, middle and an end.

II-C:3. Write to express one's own meaning.

II-C:4. Write one's own name and names of others.

NM.III: Literature and Media. Students will use literature and media to develop an understanding of people, societies and the self.

III-A: Use language, literature and media to gain and demonstrate awareness of cultures around the world.

III-A:1. Listen and respond to stories based on familiar themes and plots.

III-A:2. Relate characters and events to their own life experiences.

III-A:3. Demonstrate familiarity with stories and activities related to various ethnic groups and countries.

III-B: Identify and use the types of literature according to their purpose and function.

III-B:1. Demonstrate familiarity with the types of books and selections (e.g., picture books, caption books, short informational texts, nursery rhymes, re-enactment of familiar stories).

III-B:2. Demonstrate understanding of plots of different types of stories (e.g., songs, rhymes and fairy tales).

III-B:3. Identify characters, setting and important events.