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Kindergarten

Florida - Benchmarks for Excellent Student Thinking: ELA.K.V.1.2

Ask and answer questions about unfamiliar words in grade-level content.

Arkansas Academic Standards: K.V.2

Use sentence-level clues to identify the meaning of a word or phrase during read-aloud instruction.

Arkansas Academic Standards: K.V.4

Distinguish shades of meaning among verbs (e.g., march, run, jog, strut, prance).

Arkansas Academic Standards: K.V.5

Use most common prefixes (e.g., un-, re-) and suffixes (e.g., -ed, -s) as clues to meaning.

Georgia Standards: K.L.V.3.a

With adult support, determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases. (I)

Common Core State Standards: L.K.4.a

Mississippi College- and Career-Readiness Standards: L.K.4a

Identify new meanings for familiar words and apply them accurately (e.g., knowing duck is a bird and learning the verb to duck).

Alabama Course of Study Standards: 17

With guidance and support, orally utilize new academic, content-specific, grade-level vocabulary and relate new words to prior knowledge.

Arizona's K-12 Academic Standards: K.RL.4

Georgia Standards: ELAGSEKRL4

With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about unknown words in a text.

California Common Core State Standards: RL.K.4

Ask and answer questions about unknown words in a text. (See grade K Language standards 4–6 for additional expectations.)

Common Core State Standards: RL.K.4

Ask and answer questions about unknown words in a text.

Massachusetts Curriculum Frameworks: RL.K.4

Ask and answer questions about unknown words in a text. (See kindergarten Language Standards 4–6 on applying knowledge of vocabulary to reading.)

North Carolina - Standard Course of Study: RL.K.4

With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about words in a text that suggest feelings or appeal to the senses.

New York State Next Generation Learning Standards: KR4

Identify specific words that express feelings and senses. (RI&RL)

Tennessee Academic Standards: K.RL.CS.4

With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about unknown words in text.

North Carolina - Standard Course of Study: K.CD.4.1

Determine or clarify the meaning of grade-appropriate general academic and domain-specific words and phrases in texts.

North Carolina - Standard Course of Study: K.CD.F.4.2

Confirm or self-correct word recognition and understanding, as necessary.

North Carolina - Standard Course of Study: K.CD.4

Apply knowledge of kindergarten language and its conventions when writing, speaking, reading, and listening.

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