These standards are based on the COMMON CORE STATE STANDARDS, a nationwide initiative to align state standards.

• Understand features of print: left to right, top to bottom
• ID the parts of a book
• Name and write upper and lower case letters and sounds
• Rhyming words
• Break words into syllables
• Isolate beginning, middle and ending sounds
• Substitute/add sounds in words
• Long and short vowel sounds
• Read high frequency words
• Read emergent level text for purpose and understanding
• Answer questions about and retell stories
• ID character, setting, major events in a storyID author and illustrator rolesCompare stories
• Write personal narratives, opinion pieces and informational report
• Spell simple words phonetically
• Write multiple sentences with proper spacing, capitalization, punctuation and meaningful content
• Recognize appropriate uses for nouns and verbs and use singular and plural correctly
• Use inflections and affixes correctly (-ed, -ing, un-, pre-, etc...)

• Count to 100 by ones and tens
• Count on from a given number
• Write numbers 0-20
• Represent a number of objects with a written number and count to answer how many
• Count one number and one object at a time
• Understand counting means one more
• ID if a group of objects is greater than, less than, or equal to another group
• Compare two written numbers
• Addition and subtraction word problems within 10
• Take apart numbers to 10 in more than one way
• Find the number to make 10 when given a number
• Add and subtract fluently within 5
• Put together and take apart numbers up to 19 (i.e. 18=8+10)
• Understand the concept of tens and ones
• Describe/compare/contrast measurable features of object
• Put objects into categories and sort them by count
• Name shapes no matter the orientation
• Use terms of position: below, beside etc...
• ID 2 and 3 dimensional shapes
• Describe shapes based on corners, vertices, sides…
• Create and model shapes in environment