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Virginia Standards

Kindergarten English SOL

All 19 Virginia English standards for kindergarten, each explained in plain English. The official wording is in Virginia Department of Education's document, linked at the end of this page.

19 standards

Foundations for Reading

3 standards
K.FFR.1
Track print left to right and down the page, tell letters, words and sentences apart, find a book's cover and title, and say what authors and illustrators do.
K.FFR.2
Split spoken sentences into words and words into syllables, blend m plus op into mop, and hear and pull apart each sound in short words like sun or ship.
K.FFR.3
Name every capital and lowercase letter and its sound, tell short vowels from long, and read and spell short-vowel words like cat and ship plus common sight words.

Developing Skilled Readers and Building Reading Stamina

1 standard
K.DSR.1
Read simple decodable sentences again and again, back up answers with details from read-alouds with help, and hear several books on one topic to learn facts and words.

Reading and Vocabulary

1 standard
K.RV.1
Talk about and ask about new words, pick up words from read-alouds and other subjects, know what a picture dictionary is for, and use new words when talking.

Reading Literary Text

2 standards
K.RL.1
With help, connect stories to what they already know, name the characters, setting and big events, retell a familiar story in order, and predict what happens next.
K.RL.3
With help, tell which moment of a story a picture shows, compare characters, events or settings in two familiar stories, and notice when they lose track while listening.

Reading Informational Text

3 standards
K.RI.1
With help, ask and answer who, what, where, why and how questions about a nonfiction read-aloud, and name what it is mostly about and its key details.
K.RI.2
With help, tell what a table of contents, headings, bold words and pictures are for in a nonfiction book, like finding the page about frogs.
K.RI.3
With help, find what is alike and different in two nonfiction books on the same topic, and explain how two people, events or facts in one book are linked.

Foundations for Writing

2 standards
K.FFW.1
Hold a pencil correctly and print all capital and lowercase letters, writing left to right with spaces between words, plus their first and last name with capitals.
K.FFW.2
Spell short-vowel words like mat and chop by their sounds, make a sensible try at unknown words, and with help spell common kindergarten sight words.

Writing

2 standards
K.W.1
Draw, dictate and write to tell a story with a beginning, middle and end, describe a topic with at least one detail, and respond to books read aloud.
K.W.2
With guidance, plan writing by drawing and sharing ideas with classmates, decide who it is for and why, and write or dictate simple sentences like Sam can hop.

Language Usage

2 standards
K.LU.1
Build and stretch complete sentences together, using nouns for people, places and things, pronouns like he and they, describing words like big or red, and action verbs.
K.LU.2
With guidance, capitalize sentence starts and the word I, end telling sentences with a period and questions with a question mark, and spell new words by sound.

Communication and Multimodal Literacies

2 standards
K.C.1
Join partner, group and class talks by listening, waiting their turn, staying on topic, adding to classmates' ideas, asking questions and speaking in full sentences.
K.C.2
Share their own experiences in full sentences, speak up clearly, chant rhymes and songs together, and retell or act out stories in order with props or pictures.

Research

1 standard
K.R.1
With help, pick a topic and a question, find facts in pictures, books or by asking people, record them by drawing, writing or dictating, and share them in a group.

The official Virginia documents

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