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Colorado Standards

Colorado Kindergarten ELA Standards

All 10 Colorado English language arts standards for kindergarten, each explained in plain English. The official wording is in Colorado Department of Education's document, linked at the end of this page.

10 standards

Oral Expression and Listening

2 standards
RW.K.1.1
Take part in class conversations by taking turns and keeping a talk going, ask and answer questions about a text read aloud, and follow two-step directions.
RW.K.1.2
Tell about familiar people, places and events out loud with extra detail or a drawing, speak clearly, and grow vocabulary by sorting words and acting out verbs like walk and march.

Reading for All Purposes

3 standards
RW.K.2.1
With help, ask and answer questions about stories, retell them with key details, name the characters, setting and events, and tell what the author and illustrator each do.
RW.K.2.2
With help, find the main topic and key details of a nonfiction text, link the pictures to the words, spot the author's reasons, and point out a book's cover and title page.
RW.K.2.3
Learn how print works, name every letter, rhyme, blend and split sounds and syllables, match letters to sounds, and read sight words and short words like cat and sun.

Writing and Composition

4 standards
RW.K.3.1
Draw, dictate and write to share an opinion about a topic or book, like a favorite story, then add details after classmates ask questions, with adult help.
RW.K.3.2
Draw, dictate and write to name a topic and share some facts about it, like how a seed grows, then add details and try digital tools with adult help.
RW.K.3.3
Draw, dictate and write about one event or a few linked events in the order they happened, tell how you felt about it, and add details with adult help.
RW.K.3.4
Print many letters, speak in full sentences using plurals, question words and prepositions, capitalize I and the first word, and spell simple words by their sounds.

Research Inquiry and Design

1 standard
RW.K.4.1
Join class research by asking a clear question, gathering answers from books, pictures and experience, and checking the facts with adult help.

The official Colorado documents

The plain-English lines on this page are EMStudio's own explanations of Colorado's standards, not the official wording, which Colorado Department of Education publishes in the documents above. Codes and strand names identify each standard.