Arizona Standards
Arizona Kindergarten ELA Standards
All 44 Arizona English language arts standards for kindergarten, each explained in plain English. The official wording is in Arizona Department of Education's document, linked at the end of this page.
44 standards
Reading Standards for Literature
9 standardsK.RL.1
With help, ask and answer questions about the important parts of a story, like who is in it and what happens.
K.RL.2
With help, retell a familiar story, like The Three Little Pigs, keeping the important parts in.
K.RL.3
With help, say who is in a story, where it takes place and the big things that happen in it.
K.RL.4
With help, ask what an unfamiliar word in an informational book means and answer questions about words in it.
K.RL.5
Tell kinds of texts apart, like a storybook versus a poem, and point to a book's front cover, back cover and title.
K.RL.6
With help, name who wrote a story and who drew its pictures, and tell what each one does to help tell the story.
K.RL.7
With help, look at a picture in a storybook and say which moment of the story it shows.
K.RL.9
With help, tell how what happens to the characters in two familiar stories is alike and how it is different.
K.RL.10
Take part in group story reading with help from an adult, listening for a reason and showing they follow along.
Reading Standards for Informational Text
10 standardsK.RI.1
With help, ask and answer questions about the important parts of a story, like who is in it and what happens.
K.RI.2
With help, say what an informational book is mostly about and retell some of the facts it gives.
K.RI.3
With help, tell how two people, events or facts in an informational book go together, like a seed and the plant it becomes.
K.RI.4
With help, ask what an unfamiliar word in an informational book means and answer questions about words in it.
K.RI.5
Recognize common kinds of nonfiction, like a book of animal facts, and find a book's front cover, back cover and title page.
K.RI.6
With help, name a book's author and illustrator and tell how the words and the pictures each share its information.
K.RI.7
With help, say which person, place, thing or idea from an informational book a picture or photo shows.
K.RI.8
With help, find the reasons an author gives for a point, like why a book says dogs make good pets.
K.RI.9
With help, tell what is alike and what is different in two books about the same topic, like two books about bears.
K.RI.10
Join in group reading of nonfiction books with adult help, taking part with a purpose and showing they understand.
Reading Standards: Foundational Skills
4 standardsK.RF.1
Follow print left to right and top to bottom, know that letters in order make a word with spaces between words, and name every upper and lowercase letter.
K.RF.2
Hear and make rhymes, clap syllables, say the first, middle and last sounds in a short word like cat, and swap a sound to make a new word, like cat to hat.
K.RF.3
Give each consonant and vowel its main sound, sound out short closed-syllable words like hat, read 50 sight words, and tell apart look-alike words like cat and cap.
K.RF.4
Read very simple beginner books with a purpose in mind and understand what they say.
Writing Standards
8 standardsK.W.1
With adult help, use drawings, dictation and writing to name a topic or book and give an opinion about it, such as a favorite book.
K.W.2
With adult help, use drawings, dictation and writing to name a topic and share a few facts about it, like what frogs eat.
K.W.3
With adult help, use drawings, dictation and writing to tell about one or a few events in order and say how they felt about it.
K.W.4
With an adult’s help, organize a piece of writing so it fits the job, like a thank-you note versus a report on bats.
K.W.5
With an adult's help, listen to classmates' questions and ideas about a piece of writing and add details to make it better.
K.W.6
With an adult's help, try tools like a tablet or computer to make and share writing, sometimes together with classmates.
K.W.7
With adult help, join class research and writing projects, like reading several books by one favorite author and sharing views on them.
K.W.8
With an adult's help, answer a question by remembering something that happened or by looking in books the teacher provides.
Writing Standards: Foundational Skills
3 standardsK.WF.1
Match and write capital and lowercase print letters by copying a model, and write from left to right with spaces between words.
K.WF.2
Break any one-syllable spoken word into its separate sounds, like c-a-t, and learn that every syllable is built around a vowel sound.
K.WF.3
Use letter sounds to spell short-vowel words like at and mud, add a missing first or last consonant, write grade-level list words, and try spelling new words by sound.
Speaking and Listening Standards
6 standardsK.SL.1
Talk with classmates and adults about kindergarten topics and books, following the rules, taking turns and keeping the conversation going.
K.SL.2
Show understanding of a read-aloud, a talk or a video by asking and answering questions about it and asking when something is confusing.
K.SL.3
Ask a question to get help, find something out or clear up something confusing, and answer questions from others.
K.SL.4
Describe a familiar person, place, thing or event, like a pet or a birthday, and add more detail when prompted.
K.SL.5
Add a drawing or other picture to a description when it helps show more detail.
K.SL.6
Speak loudly enough to be heard and say thoughts, feelings and ideas so that others understand.
Language Standards
4 standardsK.L.1
Print many letters, use everyday nouns, verbs and little words like in and on, make plurals like dogs and wishes, ask with who and where, and speak in full sentences.
K.L.2
Capitalize the first word of a sentence and the word I, name the period and question mark, and spell simple words the way they sound, like kat for cat.
K.L.5
With an adult's help, sort objects into groups, pair words with their opposites, link words to real life, and act out the difference between walk, march and strut.
K.L.6
Use new words picked up from conversations, from books and from being read to when talking and responding to stories.
The official Arizona documents
- Arizona English Language Arts Standards: Kindergarten · adopted December 2016 · since 2018-19
The plain-English lines on this page are EMStudio's own explanations of Arizona's standards, not the official wording, which Arizona Department of Education publishes in the documents above. Codes and strand names identify each standard.