• Recognize that print represents spoken language and conveys meaning (e.g., his/her own name, Exit and Danger signs).
• Hold a book right side up and turn pages in the correct direction.
• Start at the top left of the printed page, track words from left to right, using return sweep, and move from the top to the bottom of the page.
• Identify different parts of a book (e.g., front cover, back cover, title page) and the information they provide.
• Distinguish between printed letters and words.
• Recognize that spoken words are represented in written language by specific sequences of letters.
• Recognize the concept of words by segmenting spoken sentences into individual words.
• Demonstrate the one-to-one correlation between a spoken word and a printed word
• Distinguish spoken rhyming words from non-rhyming words (e.g., run, sun versus run, man.).
• Orally produce rhyming words in response to spoken words (e.g., What rhymes with hat?)
• Orally produce groups of words that begin with the same initial sound (alliteration).
• Blend two or three spoken syllables to say words.
• Blend spoken simple onsets and rimes to form real words (e.g., onset /c/ and rime /at/ makes cat).
• Blend spoken phonemes to form a single syllable word (e.g., /m/…/a/…/n/…makes man).
• Identify the initial and final sounds (not the letter) of a spoken word
• Segment one-syllable words into its phonemes, using manipulatives to mark each phoneme (e.g., dog makes /d/…/o/…/g/ while the student moves a block or tile for each phoneme).
• Identify letters of the alphabet (upper and lower case).
• Recognize that a new word is created when a specific letter is changed, added, or removed.
• Say letter sounds represented by the single-lettered consonants and vowels.
• Determine what words mean from how they are used in a sentence, heard or read.
• Sort familiar words into basic categories (e.g., colors, shapes, foods).
• Describe familiar objects and events in both general and specific language.
• Make predictions based on title, cover, illustrations, and text
• Derive meaning from books that are highly predictable, use repetitive syntax, and have linguistic redundancy.
• Participate (e.g., react, speculate, join in, read along) when predictably patterned selections of fiction and poetry are read aloud
• Identify elements of a story, including characters, setting, and key events.
• Identify elements of a story, including characters, setting, and key events.
• Retell or re-enact a story, placing the events in the correct sequence.
• Determine whether a literary selection, that is heard, is realistic or fantasy.
• Identify the purpose for reading expository text.
• Restate facts from listening to expository text.
• Respond appropriately to questions based on facts in expository text, heard or read.
• Sequentially follow a two or three-step set of directions (e.g., recipes, center directions, classroom procedures, science experiments) using picture clues.
• Identify signs, symbols, labels, and captions in the environment.

www.ade.az.gov/standards/language-arts/bygradelevel/RdgGrK.pdf