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Utah Standards

Utah Kindergarten ELA Standards

All 16 Utah English language arts standards for kindergarten, each explained in plain English. The official wording is in Utah State Board of Education's document, linked at the end of this page.

16 standards

Speaking and Listening

3 standards
K.SL.1
Join conversations with classmates and adults about topics and books, following group rules like taking turns, keeping a talk going, and sharing their own ideas.
K.SL.2
Speak loudly and clearly enough to be understood when sharing thoughts, feelings, and ideas.
K.SL.3
Talk or present to others with fitting words, grammar, volume, and pronunciation, adding a picture or display when it helps explain.

Reading

8 standards
K.R.2
Work with sounds in spoken words by clapping syllables, naming first, middle, and last sounds, changing parts of compound words, and blending sounds like c-a-t.
K.R.3
Match every consonant and the short and long vowels to their sounds, blend and split sounds to read words like cat and up, and read and spell common tricky words.
K.R.4
Read kindergarten-level books accurately and smoothly enough to understand them.
K.R.5
With help from an adult, ask and answer questions about important details in a story or informational book.
K.R.6
Retell a familiar story and share the important details from an informational book.
K.R.7
Name the characters, setting, and main events in a story, or the key facts in an informational book.
K.R.8
Ask and answer questions about words they do not know in a story or informational book.
K.R.9
Figure out which meaning a word with more than one meaning has in a sentence, like bat the animal or bat for baseball.

Writing

5 standards
K.W.1
Draw and write to tell what they think about a topic, building full sentences that start with a capital letter and end with a punctuation mark.
K.W.2
Draw and write to share facts about a topic, building complete sentences with capital letters and end marks.
K.W.3
Draw and write about an event in the order it happened, telling details and how they felt, in complete sentences with capitals and end marks.
K.W.4
Work with others on class writing projects, recalling things they did or learned and helping at each step of the writing process.
K.W.5
Write every capital and lowercase print letter so others can read it.

The official Utah documents

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