STANDARDS ALIGNMENT

ELQA Pre-K Literacy

Assessment Name

Oklahoma Academic Standards for English Language Arts

Pre-Kindergarten

Phonological Awareness

Rhyming

PK.2.PA.2 Students will recognize spoken words that rhyme (e.g., wall & fall).

Print Concepts

Print Concepts

PK.2.PC.1 Students will begin to understand that print carries a message by recognizing labels, signs, and other print in the environment.

Print Concepts

PK.2.PC.2 Students will demonstrate correct book orientation and identify the front and back covers of a book.

Print Concepts

PK.2.PC.3 Students will begin to understand that print moves from top to bottom, left to right, and front to back.

Print Concepts

PK.2.PC.4 Students will begin to recognize that written words are made up of letters and are separated by spaces.

Print Concepts

PK.2.PC.5 Students will begin to recognize ending punctuation marks in print during shared reading or other text experiences.

Phonics and Word Study 

Uppercase Letters

Lowercase Letters

PK.2.PWS.1 Students will name a majority of uppercase and lowercase letters.

Letter Sounds

PK.2.PWS.3 Students will produce some sounds represented by letters.

Critical Reading and Writing

Expressive Vocabulary

PK.3.R.2 Students will answer basic questions (E.g., who, what, where, and when) about texts, photographs, or illustrations during shared reading or other text experiences with prompting.

Vocabulary

Receptive Vocabulary

Expressive Vocabulary

PK.4.R.1 Students will begin to acquire new vocabulary and relate new words to prior knowledge.

Language

Receptive Vocabulary

PK.5.R.2 Students will hear different parts of speech through conversations, read-alouds, and interactive reading:

• concrete objects as persons, places, or things (i.e., nouns)
• words or actions (i.e., verbs)
• color adjectives
• spatial and time relationships such as up, down, before, and after

 ELQA Kindergarten

Assessment Name

Oklahoma Academic Standards for English Language Arts

Kindergarten

Phonological Awareness

Print Concepts

K.2.PA.1 Students will count one-syllable and multisyllabic spoken words in a sentence (e.g., I see an elephant).

Rhyming

K.2.PA.2 Students will distinguish rhyming and non-rhyming pairs and produce a rhyme when given.

Alliteration

K.2.PA.3 Students will isolate and pronounce initial and final sounds in spoken words.

Syllable Segmenting

K.2.PA.4 Students will count, segment, and blend syllables in spoken words.

Phoneme Blending and Segmenting

K.2.PA.6 Students will blend phonemes to form one-syllable spoken words with 2 to 4 phonemes (e.g., /f/ /l/ /a/ /t/= flat).

Phoneme Blending and Segmenting

K.2.PA.7 Students will segment phonemes in one-syllable spoken words with 2 to 4 phonemes (e.g., flat = /f/ /l/ /a/ /t/).

Print Concepts

Print Concepts

K.2.P.1 Students will demonstrate their understanding that print carries a message by recognizing labels, signs, and other print in the environment.

Print Concepts

K.2.PC.2 Students demonstrate correct book orientation and identify the title, title page, and front and back covers of a book.

Print Concepts

K.2.PC.3 Students will recognize that print moves from top to bottom, left to right, and front to back.

Print Concepts

K.2.PC.4 Students will recognize that written words are made up of letters and are separated by spaces.

Print Concepts

K.2.PC.5 Students will recognize the distinguishing features of a sentence. (e.g., capitalization of the first word, ending punctuation: period, exclamation mark, question mark) with prompting

Phonics and Word Study 

Uppercase Letters

K.2.PWS.1 Students will name all uppercase and lowercase letters.

Lowercase Letters

K.2.PWS.1 Students will name all uppercase and lowercase letters.

Letter Sounds

K.2.PWS.3 Students will produce the sounds for long and short vowels and the most common sound for consonants (e.g., a = /ă/ & /ā/, f = /f/, s = /s/,     x = /ks/).

Decoding

K.2.PWS.4 Students will blend letter sounds to decode simple Vowel/ Consonant (VC) and Consonant/Vowel/Consonant (CVC) words (e.g., VC words = at, in, up; CVC words = pat, hen, lot).

Fluency

Fluency

K.2.F.1 Students will read their first and last name in print.

Fluency

K.2.F.3 Students will begin to develop a sight word vocabulary by decoding and reading regularly- and irregularly-spelled words in isolation and context with increasing automaticity.

Reading and Writing Process

Comprehension

K.2.R.1 Students will identify the topic or main idea with a supporting detail of a text with prompting.

Comprehension

K.2.R.2 Students will discriminate between fiction and nonfiction text with prompting.

Critical Reading and Writing

Comprehension

K.3.R.2 Students will ask and answer basic questions (e.g., who, what, where, and when) about texts, photographs, or illustrations during shared reading or other text experiences with prompting.

Comprehension

K.3.R.3 Students will describe characters and setting within a story with prompting.

Vocabulary 

Comprehension

K.4.R.2 Students will begin to develop an awareness of context clues through read-alouds and other text experiences.

Expressive Vocabulary

K.4.R.1 Students will begin to acquire new vocabulary and relate new words to prior knowledge.

Oklahoma Academic Standards for Mathematics

Kindergarten

ELQA Kindergarten Numeracy

Assessment Name

Numbers & Operations

K.N.1 Understand the relationship between quantities and whole numbers.

K.N.1.1 Count aloud forward in sequence to 100 by 1’s to 10’s.

Verbal Counting

Numbers and Operations

K.N.1.2 Recognize that a number can be used to represent how many objects are in a set up to 10.

Numbers and Operations

K.N.1.3 Use ordinal numbers to represent the position of an object in a sequence up to 10.

Numbers and Operations

K.N.1.4 Recognize without counting (subitize) the quantity of a small group of objects in organized and random arrangements up to 10.

Numbers and Operations

K.N.1.5 Count forward, with and without objects, from any given number up to 10.

Numbers and Operations

K.N.1.6 Read, write, discuss, and represent whole numbers from 0 to at least 10. Representations may include numerals, pictures, real objects, and picture graphs, spoken words, and manipulatives.

Numbers and Operations

Measurement & Data

Displaying & Analyzing Data

K.N.1.7 Find a number that is 1 more or 1 less than a given number up to 10.

Numbers and Operations

K.N.1.8 Using the words more than, less than or equal to compare and order whole numbers, with and without objects, from 0 to 10.

Measurement & Data

Displaying & Analyzing Data

K.N.2 Develop conceptual fluency with addition and subtraction (up to 10) using objects and pictures.  

K.N.2.1 Compose and decompose numbers up to 10 with objects and pictures.

Numbers and Operations

Displaying & Analyzing Data

K.N.3 Understand the relationship between whole numbers and fractions through fair share. 

K.N.3.1 Distribute equally a set of objects into at least two smaller equal sets. 

Numbers and Operations

K.N.4 Identify coins by name.

K.N.4.1 Identify pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters by name.

Measurement & Data

Algebraic Reasoning & Algebra

K.A.1 Duplicate patterns in a variety of contexts. 

K.A.1.1 Sort and group up to 10 objects into a set based upon characteristics such as color, size, and shape. Explain verbally what the objects have in common.

Algebraic Thinking

K.A.1.2 Recognize, duplicate, complete, and extend repeating, shrinking, and growing patterns shape, color, size, objects, sounds, movement, and other contexts.

Algebraic Thinking

Geometry & Measurement

K.GM.1 Recognize and sort basic two- dimensional shapes and use them to represent real-world objects. 

K.GM.1.1 Recognize squares, circles, triangles, and rectangles.

Geometry

K.GM.1.2 Sort two-dimensional objects using characteristics such as shape, size, color, and thickness.

Geometry

K.GM.1.3 Identify attributes of two-dimensional shapes using informal and formal geometric language interchangeably.

Geometry

K.GM.1.6 Use basic shapes and spatial reasoning to represent objects in the real world.

Geometry

K.GM.2 Compare and order objects according to location and measurable attributes.

K.GM.2.1 Use words to compare objects according to length, size, weight, position, and location. 

Measurement and Data

K.GM.2.2  Order up to 6 objects using measurable attributes, such as length and weight.

Measurement and Data

K.GM.2.3 Sort objects into sets by more than one attribute.

Measurement and Data

K.GM.3 Tell time as it relates to daily life.

K.GM.3.1 Develop an awareness of simple time concepts using words such as yesterday, today, tomorrow, morning, afternoon, and night within his/her daily life.

Measurement and Data

Data & Probability

K.D.1 Collect and organize categorical data

K.D.1.1 Collect and sort information about objects and events in the environment.

Displaying and Analyzing Data

K.D.1.3 Draw conclusions from real-object and picture graphs.

Displaying and Analyzing Data

ELQA Pre-K Literacy

KELS Pre 4 Communication and Literacy Standards

Informational Text (Non-Fiction): CL.IT.

Key Ideas and Details

Print Concepts

CL.IT.p4.5: Identifies tde front cover, back cover, and title page of a book.

Foundational Skills: CL.F.

Print Concepts

Print Concepts

CL.F.p4.1: Demonstrates understanding of tde organization and basic features of print.

Print Concepts

CL.F.p4.1a: Follows words from left to right, top to bottom and page-by-page.

Print Concepts

CL.F.p4.1b: Recognizes tdat spoken words are represented in written language by specific sequences of letter.

Print Concepts

CL.F.p4.1c: Recognizes tdat letters are grouped to form words.

Uppercase Letters

Lowercase Letters

CL.F.p4.1d: Recognizes and names some upper: and lowercase letters in addition to tdose in first name.

Foundational Skills: CL.F.

Phonological Awareness

Rhyming

CL.F.p4.2: Demonstrates understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds (i.e., phonemes).

Rhyming

CL.F.p4.2a: Recognizes and produces rhyming words.

Foundational Skills: CL.F.

Phonics and Word Recognition

Letter Sounds

CL.F.p4.3a: Demonstrates basic knowledge of letter-sound correspondence by producing tde sound of some letters.

Speaking & Listening: CL.SL.

Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas

Expressive Vocabulary

CL.SL.p3.4: Able to describe objects and actions depicted in pictures.

Expressive Vocabulary

CL.SL.p3.5: Speaks so tdat unfamiliar listeners are usually able to understand ideas, feelings, and needs.

Language Standards: CL.LS.

Conventions of Standard English

Expressive Vocabulary

CL.LS.p4.1: Demonstrates an emerging command of conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.

Expressive Vocabulary

CL.LS.p4.1b: Uses frequently occurring nouns and verbs.

Expressive Vocabulary

CL.LS.p4.1c: Forms regular plural nouns orally by adding /s/ or /es/ (e.g., dog, dogs; wish, wishes).

Expressive Vocabulary

Receptive Vocabulary

CL.LS.p4.1d: Understands and uses most question words (i.e., interrogatives) (e.g., who, what, where, when, why, how).

Vocabulary Acquisition and Use

Expressive Vocabulary

Receptive Vocabulary

CL.LS.p4.4: Witd guidance and support, explores word relationships and nuances in word meanings.

Expressive Vocabulary

CL.SL.p4.5: Witd prompting and support, begins to use new words and phrases acquired tdrough conversations, reading, and being read to and responding to texts.

 ELQA Kindergarten Literacy

Kansas Kindergarten Standards for English Language Arts

Speaking and Listening

Comprehension and Collaboration

Comprehension

SL.K.1: Participate in collaborative conversations about Kindergarten topics and texts with peers and adults in small and large groups.

Comprehension

SL.K.2: Confirm understanding of a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media by asking and answering questions about key details and requesting clarification if something is not understood.

Comprehension

SL.K.3: Ask and answer questions in order to seek help, get information, or clarify something that is not understood.

Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas

Comprehension

SL.K.4: Use details to describe familiar people, places, things, and/or events with prompting and support.

Comprehension

SL.K.6: Speak with appropriate volume, enunciation, and rate in order to express thoughts, feelings, and ideas clearly.

Language in Speaking and Listening

Expressive Vocabulary

SL.K.7: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standards English grammar and usage when speaking.

Expressive Vocabulary

SL.K.8: Use words and phrases acquired through conversations, reading, and through being read to.

Reading: Foundational

Print Concepts

Print Concepts

RF.K.1: Demonstrate understanding of the organization and basic features of print.

Print Concepts

RF.K.1a: Follow words from left to right, top to bottom and page-by-page.

Print Concepts

RF.K.1b: Recognize that spoken words are represented in written language by specific sequences of letters.

Print Concepts

Print Concepts

RF.K.1c: Understand that words are separated by spaces in print and can point with one-to-one correspondence.

Uppercase Letters

Lowercase Letters

RF.K.1d: Recognize and name all upper- and lowercase letters of the alphabet.

Phonological Awareness

Alliteration

R F.K.2: Demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds (phonemes).

Rhyming

RF.K.2a: Recognize and produce rhyming words (if culturally appropriate).

Syllable Segmenting

RF.K.2b: Count, pronounce, blend and segment syllables in spoken words.

Phoneme Segmenting and Blending

RF.K.2d: Isolate and pronounce the initial, medial vowel and final sounds (phonemes) in three- phoneme (consonant-vowel-consonant or CVC) words. (This does not include CVC ending with /l/, /r/, or /x/.)

Phoneme Deletion and Substitution

RF.K.2e: Add or substitute individual sounds (phonemes) in simple, one-syllable words to make new words.

Phonics and Word Recognition

Decoding

RF.K.3: Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.

Letter Sounds

RF.K.3a: Demonstrate basic knowledge of one-to-one letter-sound correspondences by producing the primary or many of the most frequent sounds for each consonant.

Fluency

RF.K.3c: Read common high-frequency words by sight (e.g., the, of, to, you, she, my, is, are, do, does).

Reading: Literature

Key Ideas and Details

Comprehension

RL.K.1: With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text.

Comprehension

RL.K.2: With prompting and support, retell familiar stories, including key details.

Comprehension

RL.K.3: With prompting and support, identify characters, settings, and major events in a story.

Craft and Structure

Comprehension

RL.K.4: Ask and answer questions about unknown words in a text.

Integration of Knowledge and Ideas

Comprehension

RL.K.9 With prompting and support, compare and contrast the adventures and experiences of characters in familiar stories.

Language in Reading: Literature

Comprehension

RL.K.11: Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on Kindergarten reading and content.

Comprehension

RL.K.12: With guidance and support from adults, explore word relationships and nuances in word meanings.

Range of Reading and Text Complexity

Comprehension

RL.K.13: Listen to high quality prose and poetry of appropriate complexity for Kindergarten.

Reading: Informational

Key Ideas and Details

Comprehension

RI.K.1: With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text.

Comprehension

RI.K.2: With prompting and support, identify the main topic and retell key details of a text.

Comprehension

RI.K.3: With prompting and support, describe the connection between two individuals, events, ideas, or pieces of information in a text.

Craft and Structure

Comprehension

RI.K.4: With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about unknown words in a text.

Print Concepts

RI.K.5: Identify the front cover, back cover, and title page of a book.

Integration of Knowledge and Ideas

Expressive Vocabulary

Receptive Vocabulary

RI.K.7: With prompting and support, describe the relationship between illustrations and the text in which they appear (e.g., what person, place, thing, or idea in the text an illustration depicts).

Comprehension

RI.K.8: With prompting and support, identify the reasons an author gives to support points in a text.

Language in Reading: Informational

Comprehension

RI.K.11: Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on Kindergarten reading and content.

Comprehension

RI.K.12: With guidance and support from adults, explore word relationships and nuances in word meanings.

Oklahoma Academic Standards for Mathematics

Kindergarten

ELQA Kindergarten Numeracy

Assessment Name

Numbers & Operations

K.N.1 Understand the relationship between quantities and whole numbers.

K.N.1.1 Count aloud forward in sequence to 100 by 1’s to 10’s.

Verbal Counting

Numbers and Operations

K.N.1.2 Recognize that a number can be used to represent how many objects are in a set up to 10.

Numbers and Operations

K.N.1.3 Use ordinal numbers to represent the position of an object in a sequence up to 10.

Numbers and Operations

K.N.1.4 Recognize without counting (subitize) the quantity of a small group of objects in organized and random arrangements up to 10.

Numbers and Operations

K.N.1.5 Count forward, with and without objects, from any given number up to 10.

Numbers and Operations

K.N.1.6 Read, write, discuss, and represent whole numbers from 0 to at least 10. Representations may include numerals, pictures, real objects, and picture graphs, spoken words, and manipulatives.

Numbers and Operations

Measurement & Data

Displaying & Analyzing Data

K.N.1.7 Find a number that is 1 more or 1 less than a given number up to 10.

Numbers and Operations

K.N.1.8 Using the words more than, less than or equal to compare and order whole numbers, with and without objects, from 0 to 10.

Measurement & Data

Displaying & Analyzing Data

K.N.2 Develop conceptual fluency with addition and subtraction (up to 10) using objects and pictures.  

K.N.2.1 Compose and decompose numbers up to 10 with objects and pictures.

Numbers and Operations

Displaying & Analyzing Data

K.N.3 Understand the relationship between whole numbers and fractions through fair share. 

K.N.3.1 Distribute equally a set of objects into at least two smaller equal sets. 

Numbers and Operations

K.N.4 Identify coins by name.

K.N.4.1 Identify pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters by name.

Measurement & Data

Algebraic Reasoning & Algebra

K.A.1 Duplicate patterns in a variety of contexts. 

K.A.1.1 Sort and group up to 10 objects into a set based upon characteristics such as color, size, and shape. Explain verbally what the objects have in common.

Algebraic Thinking

K.A.1.2 Recognize, duplicate, complete, and extend repeating, shrinking, and growing patterns shape, color, size, objects, sounds, movement, and other contexts.

Algebraic Thinking

Geometry & Measurement

K.GM.1 Recognize and sort basic two- dimensional shapes and use them to represent real-world objects. 

K.GM.1.1 Recognize squares, circles, triangles, and rectangles.

Geometry

K.GM.1.2 Sort two-dimensional objects using characteristics such as shape, size, color, and thickness.

Geometry

K.GM.1.3 Identify attributes of two-dimensional shapes using informal and formal geometric language interchangeably.

Geometry

K.GM.1.6 Use basic shapes and spatial reasoning to represent objects in the real world.

Geometry

K.GM.2 Compare and order objects according to location and measurable attributes.

K.GM.2.1 Use words to compare objects according to length, size, weight, position, and location. 

Measurement and Data

K.GM.2.2  Order up to 6 objects using measurable attributes, such as length and weight.

Measurement and Data

K.GM.2.3 Sort objects into sets by more than one attribute.

Measurement and Data

K.GM.3 Tell time as it relates to daily life.

K.GM.3.1 Develop an awareness of simple time concepts using words such as yesterday, today, tomorrow, morning, afternoon, and night within his/her daily life.

Measurement and Data

Data & Probability

K.D.1 Collect and organize categorical data

K.D.1.1 Collect and sort information about objects and events in the environment.

Displaying and Analyzing Data

K.D.1.3 Draw conclusions from real-object and picture graphs.

Displaying and Analyzing Data

ELQA Pre-K Literacy

Pennsylvania Learning Standards for Early Childhood
Pre-Kindergarten Language and Literacy Development

1.1 Foundational Skills

A. Book Handling

Print Concepts

1.1 PK.A Practice appropriate book handling skills.

B. Print Concepts

Print Concepts

Uppercase Letters

Lowercase Letters

1.1 PK.B Identify basic features of print.

C. Phonological Awareness

Rhyming

1.1 PK.C Demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds (phonemes).

D. Phonics and Word Recognition

Uppercase Letters 

Lowercase Letters

Letter Sounds

1.1 PK.D Develop beginning phonics and word skills.

1.2 Reading Informational Text

E. Craft and Structure – Text Structure

Print Concepts

1.2 PK.E Identify the front cover, back cover, and title page of a book.

J. Vocabulary Acquisition and Use

Receptive Vocabulary

Expressive Vocabulary

1.2 PK.J Use new vocabulary and phrases acquired in conversations and being read to.

K. Vocabulary Acquisition and Use

Receptive Vocabulary
Expressive Vocabulary

1.2 PK.K With prompting and support, clarify unknown words or phrases read aloud.

1.3 Reading Literature

J. Vocabulary Acquisition and Use - Strategies

Receptive Vocabulary
Expressive Vocabulary

1.3 PK.J Use new vocabulary and phrases acquired in conversations and being read to.

ELQA Pre-K Numeracy Assessment Name

Pennsylvania Learning Standards for Early Childhood
Pre-Kindergarten Mathematical Thinking and Expression

2.1 Numbers and Operations

1. Cardinality

Number Recognition 0-10
Number Recognition 11-20
Numbers and Operations

2.1 PK.A.1 Know number names and the count sequence.

2. Counting 

Numbers and Operations

2.1 PK.A.2 Count and tell the number of objects.

3. Comparing 

Displaying & Analyzing Data
Numbers and Operations 

2.1 PK.A.3 Compare numbers. 

MP. Mathematical Processes 

Algebraic Thinking
Numbers and Operations 

2.1 PK.MP Use mathematical processes when quantifying, comparing, representing, and modeling numbers. 

2.2 Algebraic Concepts

1. Operations and Algebraic Thinking 

Algebraic Thinking
Numbers and Operations

2.2 PK.A.1 Understand addition as putting together and adding to, and understand subtraction as taking apart and taking from. 

MP. Mathematical Processes 

Algebraic Thinking
Numbers and Operations

2.2 PK.MP Use mathematical processes when representing relationships

2.3 Geometry 

1. Identification 

Geometry

2.3 PK.A.1 Identify and describe shapes. 

2. Application

Algebraic Thinking
 Geometry 

2.3 PK.A.2 Analyze, compare, create, and compose shapes