TK Common Core District Standards
2014 – 2015
Reading Literature
Key Ideas & Details
TK.1With prompting and support, answer questions about
details in a text
TK.2 With prompting and support, retell familiar stories, including
key details
TK.3 With prompting and support, identify characters, settings,
and major events in a story
Craft & Structure
TK.4 Ask and answer questions about unknown words in a text
TK.5 Recognize common types of texts (e.g. storybooks, poems,
fantasy, realistic text)
TK.6 With prompting and support, name the author and
illustrator of a story and define the role of each in telling the
story
Range of Reading & Level of Text Complexity
TK.10 Activity engage in group activities with purpose and
understanding
a. Activate prior knowledge related to the information and
events in texts
b. Use illustrations and context to make predictions about
text
Reading Informational
Key Ideas & Details
TK.1 With prompting and support, answer questions about key
details in a text
Craft & Structure
TK.4 With prompting and support, ask and answer questions
about unknown words in a text
TK.5 Identify the front cover, back cover, and title page of a
book
TK.6 Name the author and illustrator of a text and define the
role of each in presenting the ideas or information in a text
Range of Reading & Level of Text Complexity
TK.10 Activity engage in group activities with purpose and
understanding
a. Activate prior knowledge related to the information and
events in texts
b. Use illustrations and context to make predictions about
text
Reading Foundational Skills
Print Concepts
TK.1 Demonstrate understanding of the organization and basic
features of print
a. Follow words from left to right, top to bottom, and page
by page
b. Recognize that spoken words are represented in written
language by specific sequences of letters
c. Understand that words are separated by spaces in print
d. Recognize and name all upper- and lowercase letters of
the alphabet
Phonological Awareness
TK.2 Demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables,
and sounds (phonemes)
a. Recognize rhyming words
b. Pronounce and segment syllables in spoken words
c. (not applicable to TK)
d. (not applicable to TK)
e. Isolate and pronounce the initial sounds in words
Phonics & Word Recognition
TK.3 Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis
skills in decoding words
a. Demonstrate basic knowledge of one-to-one lettersound correspondences by producing the primary sound
b. (not applicable to TK)
c. Read common high-frequency words by sight (I, see, to,
the, a, is, like, at, my, it)
Writing
Text Types & Purposes
TK.1 Use a combination of drawing and dictating to compose
opinion pieces
Research to Build & Present Knowledge
TK.8 With guidance and support from adults, recall information
from experiences or sources to answer a question
Speaking & Listening
Comprehension & Collaboration
TK.1 Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse
partners about TK topics and texts with peers and adults in small
and larger groups
a. Follow agreed-upon rules for discussions (e.g. listening to
others and taking turns speaking about the topics and
texts under discussions)
b. Continue a conversation through multiple exchanges
TK.2 Confirm understanding of a text read aloud or information
presented orally or through other media by answering
questions about key details and requesting clarification if
something is not understood
a. Understand and follow one step oral directions
TK.3 Ask and answer questions in order to seek help, get
information, or clarify something that is not understood
Presentation of Knowledge & Ideas
TK.4 Describe familiar people, places, things, and events with
prompting and support
TK.5 Add drawings and other visual displays to descriptions as
desired to provide additional detail
TK.6 Speak audibly and express thoughts, feelings, and ideas
clearly
Language
Conventions of Standard English
TK.1 Demonstrate command of the conventions of Standard
English grammar and usage when writing or speaking
a. Print many upper- and lowercase letters
b. Use frequently occurring nouns and verbs orally
c. (not applicable to TK)
d. Understand and use questions words (interrogatives)
(e.g. who, what, where, when, why, how)
e. (not applicable to TK)
f. Produce complete sentences in shared language
activities
TK.2 Demonstrate command of the conventions of Standard
English punctuation
a. (not applicable to TK)
b. Recognize and name end punctuation
c. Write a letter or letters for most consonant and shortvowel sounds (phonemes)
Vocabulary Acquisition & Use
TK.5 With guidance and support from adults, explore word
relationships and nuances in word meanings
a. Sort common objects into categories (e.g. shapes,
foods) to gain a sense of the concepts the categories
represent
TK.6 Use words and phrases acquired through conversations
and being read to, to respond to texts
Social Studies
Social Studies
1. Understands similarities and differences among people
and places
2. Understands characteristics of good social behavior
through the pillars of character (e.g., Character Counts:
Citizenship, Trustworthiness, Respect, Fairness,
Responsibility, Caring)
Science
Science
1. Understands and Identifies the 5 senses
2. Understand and describe similarities and differences in
appearance, behavior, and major structures of zoo
animals
3. Understand and describe the similarities and differences
between types of transportation (e.g. plane, car, bus, train,
boat)
Social Development
Interaction with children and adults
1. Parallel play
2. Share toys, belongings and play space
3. Interacts with peers in teacher directed tasks
4. Solves problems cooperatively with others
5. Maintains positive relationships with peers
6. Follows most rules independently
Learning Skills
1. Sustain attention to an activity appropriate to age
2. Completing an activity before selecting another activity
3. Sustain attention during teacher directed lesson
4. Understands and follows routine
5. Contributes verbal responses that are appropriate or
related to the topic or situation
Mathematics
Counting and Cardinality
1. Identify numbers 0-10
2. Count to 50 by ones and tens
3. Count forward beginning from a given number within the
known sequence (instead of having to begin at 1)
4. Write numbers from 0 – 10. Represent a number of objects
with a written numeral 0 – 10 (with 0 representing a count
of no objects)
5. Uses one to one correspondence to 15
6. Understands the number of objects remain the same
when they are counted and then re-arranged spatially
7. Count to answer questions about “How many?” objects
are in an arranged group up to 10
8. Identify greater than, less than, and equal to in sets up to
5
Operations and Algebraic Thinking
Addition and Subtraction
1. Represent addition and subtraction with objects, fingers,
mental images, drawings, sounds (e.g. claps), acting out
situations, verbal explanations, or expressions
2. Solve addition and subtraction word problems using the
appropriate vocabulary (such as: join, separate, putting
together, adding to, taking apart, and taking from)
3. Decompose numbers less than or equal to 5 in pairs in
more than one way by using objects or drawings
Sorting
1. Sort objects by one attribute (size, shape, color)
2. Describe and explain how groups are sorted
Patterns
1. Recognize simple patterns
2. Create simple patterns
3. Describe and explain simple patterns
Measurement and Data
1. Identify, compare, and describe measureable attributes
of objects (e.g. longer, shorter, taller, shorter, heavier,
lighter)
2. Order objects by measureable attribute
3. Uses a calendar to demonstrate an understanding of
months of the year, days of the week, and times of the
day
Geometry
1. Identify and name plane shapes (circle, square, triangle,
rectangle)
2. Describe plane shapes using positional words
3. Describe and compare plane shapes
English Language Development
English Language Development
1. Speaks in primary language (Beginning)
2. Listens and responds to second language (Beginning)
3. Follows directions in second language (Beginning)
4. Imitates sounds of second language (Beginning)
5. Produces some words and phrases in second language
(Beginning)
6. Produces phrases and some sentences in second
language (Early Intermediate)
7. Speaks with expanded sentences (Intermediate)
8. Demonstrates oral fluency in second language
(Advanced)