Good Start, Grow Smart Early Learning Standards - SC Department ...

ELA-3K-2.5
Not expected at this level.
ELA-3K-2.6
Not expected at this level.
3-Year Olds 4-Year Olds 5-Year Olds
ELA-4K-2.5
Identify familiar environmental print.
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Reads environmental print labels while pointing
to the word. For example, the child points
to the word “Wal-Mart” while “reading” the
picture.
Identifies the stop sign on the traffic puzzle.
ELA-4K-2.6
Begin to understand graphic information which
he/she has participated in creating.
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Participates in making a graph of favorite
fruit by placing the fruit on an oversized floor
graph and counting to see which fruit was on
the graph the most.
Helps create a mural that shows the different
ways the class gets to school each day.
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ELA-K-2.5
Understand that headings and print styles
(for example, italics, bold, larger type) provide
information to the reader.
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Points to the bold words on a text and
says, “This is important”.
Looks at the headings of a lunch chart,
and tells a classmate the choice is hamburgers
or hot dogs.
ELA-K-2.6
Understand graphic features (for example,
illustrations and graphs).
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Shows a friend the graph of most popular
dogs in a book and says that most people
like Labs.
Uses a chart of symbols such as Native
American pictographs or sign language
to understand a message.