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Louisiana Standards

Louisiana Kindergarten ELA Standards

All 41 Louisiana English language arts standards for kindergarten, each explained in plain English. The official wording is in Louisiana Department of Education's document, linked at the end of this page.

41 standards

Reading Standards for Literature

9 standards
RL.K.1
With help, ask and answer questions about the important parts of a story, like who is in it and what happens.
Common Core RL.K.1
RL.K.2
With help, retell a familiar story, like The Three Little Pigs, keeping the important parts in.
Common Core RL.K.2
RL.K.3
With help, say who is in a story, where it takes place and the big things that happen in it.
Common Core RL.K.3
RL.K.4
Notice a new word in a story and ask what it means, or answer when someone asks about one.
Common Core RL.K.4
RL.K.5
Tell a storybook from a poem and name other common kinds of books and texts.
Common Core RL.K.5
RL.K.6
With prompting and support, explain how the author tells a story with words and the illustrator tells it with pictures.
RL.K.7
With prompting and support, connect a story's pictures to its words, like finding the part of the story a picture shows.
RL.K.9
With help, tell how what happens to the characters in two familiar stories is alike and how it is different.
Common Core RL.K.9
RL.K.10
Join in when the class reads a story together, listening, answering and following along.
Common Core RL.K.10

Reading Standards for Informational Text

10 standards
RI.K.1
With help, ask and answer questions about the important parts of a story, like who is in it and what happens.
Common Core RL.K.1
RI.K.2
With help, say what an informational book is mostly about and retell some of the facts it gives.
Common Core RI.K.2
RI.K.3
With help, tell how two people, events or facts in an informational book go together, like a seed and the plant it becomes.
Common Core RI.K.3
RI.K.4
With help, ask what an unfamiliar word in an informational book means and answer questions about words in it.
Common Core RI.K.4
RI.K.5
Show where the front of a book is, where the back is, and find the page inside that gives the title.
Common Core RI.K.5
RI.K.6
With prompting and support, explain how the author's words and the illustrator's pictures each help share the facts and ideas in a nonfiction book.
RI.K.7
With prompting and support, connect the pictures in a nonfiction book to its words, like matching a photo of a frog to the sentence about it.
RI.K.8
With prompting and support, name the reasons an author gives to back up a point in a nonfiction text.
RI.K.9
With prompting and support, tell how two books on the same topic are alike and different, like two books about bees.
RI.K.10
Join in when the class reads a story together, listening, answering and following along.
Common Core RL.K.10

Reading Standards for Foundational Skills

4 standards
RF.K.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.
Common Core RF.K.1
RF.K.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.
Common Core RF.K.2
RF.K.3
Say the main sound of each consonant, know the long and short sounds of a, e, i, o and u, and read common sight words like the, of and you.
Common Core RF.K.3
RF.K.4
Read very simple beginner books with a purpose in mind and understand what they say.
Common Core RF.K.4

Writing Standards

7 standards
W.K.1
Use drawing, telling and some writing to name a topic or book and give an opinion about it, like My favorite book is the one about dogs.
Common Core W.K.1
W.K.2
Use drawing, telling and some writing to name a topic and share a few facts about it, like what cats eat.
Common Core W.K.2
W.K.3
Use drawing, telling and some writing to tell what happened, in the order it happened, and share a reaction to it.
Common Core W.K.3
W.K.5
With guidance and support, answer questions and ideas from adults and classmates out loud, then add details to make the writing stronger.
W.K.6
With guidance and support, try out different digital tools, like drawing or typing apps, while helping to produce and publish a piece of writing.
W.K.7
With guidance and support from adults, join shared research and writing projects, like reading several books by a favorite author and sharing opinions on them.
W.K.8
With an adult's help, answer a question by remembering something that happened or by looking in books the teacher provides.
Common Core W.K.8

Speaking and Listening Standards

6 standards
SL.K.1
Talk with classmates and adults about kindergarten topics and books, following the rules, taking turns and keeping the conversation going.
Common Core SL.K.1
SL.K.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.
Common Core SL.K.2
SL.K.3
Ask a question to get help, find something out or clear up something confusing, and answer questions from others.
Common Core SL.K.3
SL.K.4
Describe a familiar person, place, thing or event, like a pet or a birthday, and add more detail when prompted.
Common Core SL.K.4
SL.K.5
Add a drawing or other picture to a description when it helps show more detail.
Common Core SL.K.5
SL.K.6
Speak loudly enough to be heard and say thoughts, feelings and ideas so that others understand.
Common Core SL.K.6

Language Standards

5 standards
L.K.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.
Common Core L.K.1
L.K.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.
Common Core L.K.2
L.K.4
Figure out what a new word means, like duck as a bird and duck as a move, and use endings and beginnings like -ed, -s and un- as clues.
Common Core L.K.4
L.K.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.
Common Core L.K.5
L.K.6
Use new words picked up from conversations, from books and from being read to when talking and responding to stories.
Common Core L.K.6

The official Louisiana documents

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