curriculum Kindergarten ELD Learning Targets
Kindergarten ELD Learning Targets For the given level of English language proficiency and with visual, graphic, or interactive support through Level 4, English learners can process or produce language needed to: Level 1: Entering Level 2: Emerging Level 3: Developing Level 4: Expanding Level 5: Bridging Match words to things Listen and point to pictures Respond to simple commands Listen to names and find people and places Sort or match things according to directions Follow one-step directions Listen to stories and make gestures Follow two-step directions Draw a picture according to instructions Listen and respond yes or no to a question Act out songs or stories using gestures Listen to descriptions and find matching pictures Listen to stories and tell what comes first and what comes next Listen to stories and act out a part Put pictures in order Identify objects according to descriptions Make patterns according to directions Identify people or things in stories Answer yes or no questions about personal information Name 10 things in the classroom, house, and outside Tell something that happened in a story Describe pictures, things, and people Answer questions with one or two words Finish a rhyme or song Retell short stories with pictures Repeat sentences from rhymes and pattern stories Answer questions about stories Retell stories with detailed pictures Sing songs and chants Compare objects by size, shape, and color Tell where things are Tell original stories Explain feelings and offer opinions Express likes and dislikes and tell why Match symbols to pictures Identify name in print Find words and pictures that match Find labeled classroom objects Show how to read a book Match picture cards to pictures in book Use pictures to figure out words Sort objects into groups by attribute Find sight words in a story Put labeled pictures in order to tell a story Match pictures and words Tell the difference between letters, words, and sentences Put words together to make short sentences Find parts of words and sentences that are the same Draw pictures to tell a story Circle or underline pictures, symbols, and numbers Trace pictures and letters Copy letters, symbols, numbers, and words from a story Copy signs Draw objects and label them with letters Write using pictures and words Say words out loud, then write them Write words from labeled pictures Draw pictures and use words to tell a story Label people and things Write familiar words from signs or books Tell about a subject using pictures and words Write about myself and my life using phrases and short sentences *Adapted from WIDA Can Do Descriptors