ELA Skills Checklist

Kindergarten ELA Checklist

The information included on this checklist is assessed on a continuous record of growth. This includes daily class participation, teacher observation, and oral/written activities and formal assessments.

By January, students should be able to:

• recognize all 26 capital letters in mixed order
• recognize all 26 lowercase letters in mixed order
• associate consonant sounds with correct letters
• recognize the sight words listed below
• print letters appropriately
• apply knowledge of letter sounds to written expression
• space words correctly when writing
• hear rhyming words
• produce rhyming words
• Sight words – I can the we see at am a like to and go be on

you do ran did get my are he with but is little she was out

By June, students should be able to:

• maintain and continue with above skills
• recognize all capital letters in mixed order
• -recognize all lowercase letters in mixed order
• recognize all sight words
• print all letters appropriately
• apply knowledge of all letter sounds to written expression
• associate vowel sounds with correct letters, both long and short sound
• show awareness of proper capitalization
• show awareness of ending punctuation
• write 2 or 3 sentences about a topic
• Sight words – All of the previous words plus the following:

for have they of said want here me this what say

help too play has where who good come does