ELA Pre-K
Foundational Skills

Read and tell the meaning of familiar signs and symbols in or from the environment (e.g., stop sign, exit sign)

Hold a book upright and understand that words are read from left to right and top to bottom

Distinguish between the shapes of different letters (e.g., pick the letter that is different in S, S, C; pick the letter that is different in E, f, f)

Name some of the letters of the alphabet and recognize their lower- and uppercase forms

Distinguish letters from words (e.g., identify which is a word, not a letter, from choices c, t, cat; identify which is a letter, not a word, from choices this, b, fox)

Distinguish letters from numbers (e.g., select J from choices J, 8, 7)

Clap and count the number of words in a given sentence

With support, recognize rhyme and sound repetition