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

ELA-3K-3.13
Recognize a few letters.
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3-Year Olds 4-Year Olds 5-Year Olds
Plays with alphabet blocks and tries to
name letters.
Asks adult to write his name and identifies
one or more letters.
ELA-3K-3.14
Not expected at this level.
ELA-4K-3.13
Identify several letters and their general order in
the alphabet.
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Says names of letters when seeing his name
or friends’ names written on class lists, cubbies,
etc.
Identifies “ABC comes at the beginning” or
“XYZ comes at the end” but otherwise relies
on singing “ABC Song.”
ELA-4K-3.14
Beginning to understand that letters can represent
speech sounds.
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Shares an alphabet book with a friend and
naming the letters and animals they
recognize.
Shows the adult a capital M on the calendar
and saying that “That says May because M in
Madison is my first letter, too.”
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ELA-K -3.13
Recognize uppercase and lowercase letters
and their order in the alphabet.
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Matches uppercase and lowercase letters
tiles to the letters in their name.
Looks at the alphabet on the wall to know
where to put their page in the class ABC
book.
Matches and names uppercase and
lowercase letters when playing Alphabet
Bingo.
ELA-K -3.14
Identify beginning and ending sounds in
words.
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Contribute letters to represent beginning
and ending sounds of words as the class
writes a thank you note together.
Use beginning and ending sounds to
write a message in their journal.