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

ELA-3K-3.5
Not expected at this level.
Fluency
3-Year Olds 4-Year Olds 5-Year Olds
ELA-3K-3.6
Begin joining in familiar nursery rhymes and
songs.
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Joins in when adult sings “Twinkle,
Twinkle, Little Star.”
Says, “Jack and Jill went up the hill”
along with peers.
ELA-4K-3.5
Not expected at this level.
ELA-4K-3.6
Participate in choral speaking of poems, songs,
and stories with repeated patterns.
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Echoes teacher’s reading of Brown Bear, as
she shows the pages in the book.
Repeats, “But he was still hungry” when
teacher pauses after each page of The Very
Hungry Caterpillar.
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ELA-K -3.5
Understand that multiple small words can
make compound words.
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Notices the labels under the pictures of
workers in the community and comments
that “fireman”, “mailman”, and “policeman”
all have the same word at the end.
Comments that there are lots of compound
words with fire and names several:
“firetruck”, “firefly”, “firehouse”, etc.
ELA-K -3.6
Use oral rhymes, poems, and songs to build
fluency.
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Sings days of week song while doing calendar
activities.
Recites verse to Chicka Chicka Boom
Boom.