REPK Standards
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Colorado Alignment Alignment of the Colorado Building Blocks With The Goals and Objectives of The Creative Curriculum® Developmental Continuum for Ages 3–5
Brush Developmental Preschool Reading Rubric
Reading Rubric - District Aligned Essential Skill with Creative Curriculum
Building Blocks to Colorado's Content Standards: Reading Level PK
Standard 1: Young children need language experiences that relate to their world and their relationships. Learning to use comprehension skills begins with understanding that symbols and print convey meaning and with using oral language during broad experiences in the everyday environment. Making connections between reading and what children already know begins with experiences with a variety of books. Gaining word recognition skills begins with exposure to pictures, sounds and symbols.
Standard/Benchmark/Building Block
- 1-A: Preschool learners hold books, turn pages and look at pictures, words and symbols.ES
- 1-B: Preschool learners use play, pictures and illustrations, to tell and retell a story.ES
- 1-C: Preschool learners develop vocabulary to effectively express feelings and thoughts, describe experiences, interact with others and communicate their needs.ES
- 1-D: Preschool learners use picture clues to infer and predict what happens next in a story.ES
- 1-E: Preschool learners gain information through listening experiences with adults or peers who speak and/or read.ES
- 1-F: Preschool learners know that pictures in print convey meaning, beginning with recognition of symbols, the written form of their own name, and familiar letters or words found in their environment. ES
- 1-G: Preschool learners begin to become phonemically aware - the ability to hear separate sounds. They are learning that speech is composed of individual sounds, that words are composed of syllables and sounds, that some words rhyme, and that sounds can be manipulated.ES
Standard 3 Students write and speak using conventional grammar, usage, sentence structure, punctuation, capitalization, and spelling.
Standard/Benchmark/Building Block
Standard 4: Young children need exposure to good children's literature. They need opportunities to discuss and solve problems from stories and in real life. Children need opportunities to use their imagination to create their own stories through play. Learning to make predictions, analyze, draw conclusions, and discriminate between fact and opinion begins with active play experiences.
Standard/Benchmark/Building Block
- 4-A: Preschool learners begin to compare, predict actions, and draw conclusions through everyday experiences and play.ES
- 4-B: Preschool learners, through exposure to high quality children's literature, predict logical next steps in a story, ask questions about stories and dramatize stories.ES
- 4-C: Preschool learners interpret and convey meaning through nonverbal communication.
- 4-D: Preschool learners recognize that different words and different languages have meaning and value.
- 4-E: Preschool learners ask relevant questions and make thoughtful comments.
Standard 5: In building a foundation for reading to locate, select, and make use of relevant information, young children need experiences with books that provide information such as number or alphabet books and stories that stimulate thinking and concept development. Children need opportunities to use books when trying to find answers to questions.
Standard/Benchmark/Building Block
- 5-A: Preschool learners select books, tapes, and music related to things they are interested in or are learning about.
- 5-B: Preschool learners use a variety of media to experience stories.
- 5-C: Preschool learners use a library to locate materials they need or ones that are of particular interest to them.
- 5-D: Preschool learners begin to create stories and records of events in an organized way.
- 5-E: Preschool learners begin to recognize books by their cover and to identify the beginning, middle, and end of stories and books.ES
Standard 6: Young children need exposure to stories that reflect experiences that are similar to, and that are different from their own. Children need to hear stories that help them understand their own feelings and their relationships with others. Children need to use a wide variety of books and other media.
Standard/Benchmark/Building Block
- 6-A: Preschool learners begin to identify the role of the "author" and the "illustrator" of books that are read to them or that they create.ES
- 6-B: Preschool learners listen, respond to, and discuss a variety of literature including fairy tales, folk tales, legends and myths, rhymes and poems, fiction and non fiction.ES
- 6-C: Preschool learners begin to use new vocabulary from literature in another context.
- 6-D: Preschool learners begin to understand a variety of cultures, traditions, and histories, through listening to stories and participating in activities.
- 6-E: Preschool learners begin to make connections between books or stories and their own experiences and classroom learning.
- 6-F: Preschool learners relate their own experiences and feelings with those of a character in a book.
