Kindergarten
ELAKR6 The student
gains meaning from orally
presented text. The
student
a. Listens to and reads a
variety of literary (e.g., short
stories, poems) and
informational texts and
materials to gain knowledge
and for pleasure.
b. Makes predictions from
pictures and titles.
c. Asks and answers
questions about essential
narrative elements (e.g.,
beginning-middle-end,
setting, characters,
problems, events,
resolution) of a read-aloud
text.
d. Begins to distinguish fact
from fiction in a read-aloud
text.
Georgia Performance Standards
Reading – Comprehension
First
Second
ELA1R6 The student uses ELA2R4 The student uses
a variety of strategies to
a variety of strategies to
understand and gain
gain meaning from grademeaning from grade-level
level text. The student
text. The student
a. Reads and listens to a
a. Reads a variety of texts
variety of texts for
for information and pleasure.
information and pleasure.
Third
ELA3R3 The student uses
a variety of strategies to
gain meaning from gradelevel text. The student
a. Reads a variety of texts
for information and pleasure.
b. Makes predictions using
prior knowledge.
c. Asks and answers
questions about essential
narrative elements (e.g.,
beginning-middle-end,
setting, characters,
problems, events,
resolution) of a read-aloud
or independently read text.
e. Distinguishes fact from
fiction in a text.
b. Makes predictions from
text content.
c. Generates questions
before, during, and after
reading.
b. Makes predictions from
text content.
c. Generates questions to
improve comprehension.
f. Distinguishes fact from
fiction in a text.
d. Distinguishes fact from
opinion.
l. Recognizes plot, setting,
and character within texts,
and compares and contrasts
these elements among texts.
l. Recognizes plot, setting,
and character within text,
and compares and contrasts
these elements among texts.
e. Recognizes plot, setting,
and character within text,
and compares and contrasts
these elements between
texts.
Kindergarten
First
Second
e. Retells familiar events
and stories to include
beginning, middle, and end.
f. Uses prior knowledge,
graphic features
(illustrations), and graphic
organizers to understand
text.
g. Connects life experiences
to read-aloud text.
d. Retells stories read
independently or with a
partner.
m. Recognizes and uses
graphic features and graphic
organizers to understand
text.
e. Summarizes text content.
Third
f. Makes judgments and
inferences about setting,
characters, and events and
supports them with evidence
from the text.
g. Summarizes text content.
g. Interprets information
from illustrations, diagrams,
charts, graphs, and graphic
organizers.
h. Interprets information
from illustrations, diagrams,
charts, graphs, and graphic
organizers.
f. Makes connections
between texts and/or
personal experiences.
g. Identifies the main idea
and supporting details of
informational text read or
heard.
h. Self-monitors
comprehension and rereads
when necessary.
i. Recognizes cause-andeffect relationships in text.
h. Makes connections
between texts and/or
personal experiences.
i. Identifies and infers main
idea and supporting details.
i. Makes connections
between texts and/or
personal experiences.
j. Identifies and infers main
idea and supporting details.
j. Self-monitors
comprehension and
attempts to clarify meaning.
k. Identifies and infers
cause-and-effect
relationships.
d. Recalls explicit facts and
infers implicit facts.
k. Self-monitors
comprehension to clarify
meaning.
l. Identifies and infers causeand-effect relationships and
draws conclusions.
m. Recalls explicit facts and
infers implicit facts.
h. Retells important facts in
the student’s own words.
Kindergarten
First
k. Begins to use dictionary
and glossary skills to
determine word meanings.
j. Identifies word parts to
determine meanings.
Second
m. Recognizes the basic
elements of a variety of
genres (e.g., poetry, fables,
folktales).
n. Uses titles, tables of
contents, and chapter
headings to locate
information quickly and
accurately and to preview
texts.
o. Recognizes the author’s
purpose.
q. Uses dictionary,
thesaurus, and glossary
skills to determine word
meanings.
p. Uses word parts to
determine meanings.
Third
n. Identifies the basic
elements of a variety of
genres (fiction, non-fiction,
drama, and poetry).
o. Uses titles, tables of
contents, and chapter
headings to locate
information quickly and
accurately and to preview
texts.
p. Recognizes the author’s
purpose.
q. Formulates and defends
an opinion about a text.
r. Applies dictionary,
thesaurus, and glossary
skills to determine word
meanings.