Pennsylvania State Standards Alignments Kindergarten through Grade Eleven

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Pennsylvania State Standards Alignments
Kindergarten through Grade Eleven

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Pennsylvania State Standards Alignments

Standards List with Aligned Product Skills

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Note to Educator .....................................................iii
Kindergarten ..................................................... 1
Grade 3 ....................................................35
Grade 4 ....................................................40
Grade 5 ....................................................45
Grade 6 ....................................................51
Grade 7 ....................................................57
Grade 8 ....................................................63
Grade 11 ....................................................69

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STAR Reading Kindergarten
Standards List with Aligned Product Skills
Agency Tag Set Name Product Name
Pennsylvania, ELA, 2006, STAR Reading
Kindergarten, Early Learning
Standards, State Department of
Education
Standard Skill Area Description Skill Description
PA 1.1 - Learning to Read
Independently
PA 1.1.1 - Content for Kindergarten
PA 1.1.1.A - Develop book/print
knowledge and conventions (e.g.,
turn pages from left to right when
reading, read words and sentences
from left to right, read from top to
bottom, return sweep, parts of a book
[cover, title, author, illustrator, title
page], print represents language)
PA 1.1.1.1 - Examples
PA 1.1.1.1.a - Hold a book correctly.
PA 1.1.1.1.b - Recognize the front
and back of a book.
PA 1.1.1.1.c - Distinguish print from
picture.
PA 1.1.1.1.d - Use illustrations and
print to gain meaning.
PA 1.1.1.1.e - Demonstrate left to
right page sequence
PA 1.1.1.1.f - Point to where.. to start,
go next, write labels, signs, point to
letters/words
PA 1.1.1.1.g - Demonstrate top to
bottom page orientation.
PA 1.1.1.1.h - Identify the title, title
page, author, and illustrator.
PA 1.1.1.1.i - Identify and preview the
cover of a book.
PA 1.1.1.1.j - Recognize and identify
common signs, logos, labels, and
classroom print.
PA 1.1.1.1.k - Demonstrate that text
is read from left to right and top to
bottom.
PA 1.1.1.1.l - Demonstrate return
sweep.
PA 1.1.1.1.m - Demonstrate one-to-
one correspondence.
PA 1.1.1.1.n - Distinguish a letter
from a word.
PA 1.1.1.1.o - Differentiate words
and spaces.
PA 1.1.1.1.p - Discriminate
uppercase from lowercase letters.
PA 1.1.1.1.q - Differentiate first and
last letter in a word and first and last
word in a sentence.
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STAR Reading Kindergarten
Standards List with Aligned Product Skills
Agency Tag Set Name Product Name
Pennsylvania, ELA, 2006, STAR Reading
Kindergarten, Early Learning
Standards, State Department of
Education
Standard Skill Area Description Skill Description
PA 1.1.1.1.r - Locate punctuation
including periods, question marks,
exclamation points, commas, and
quotation marks.
PA 1.1.1.1.s - Participate in learning
centers with alphabet cards, words to
learn, and alphabet, word math
activity, directional activity with 3
steps outlined from top to bottom
PA 1.1.1.1.t - Help the teacher
develop charts, write labels, sentence
strip signs
PA 1.1.1.2 - Supportive Practices
PA 1.1.1.2.a - Model, using the
appropriate language/vocabulary,
concepts of print using big books,
messages, charts, letters, notes, and
signs.
PA 1.1.1.2.b - Provide daily
opportunities for learners to look at
and read books, daily message,
charts, posters and magazines-
vocab dev ,word walls, letter
recognition
PA 1.1.1.2.c - Provide a variety of
opportunities for learners to
demonstrate their knowledge of how
print works.
PA 1.1.1.2.d - Read quality literature
daily.
PA 1.1.1.2.e - Reread
familiar/favorite books attending to
concepts of print.
PA 1.1.1.2.f - Assist learners read
classroom labels, signs and other
environmental and classroom print.
PA 1.1.1.2.g - Develop charts with
learners labeling the parts of a book
and record directions for book use.
PA 1.1.1.2.h - Provide a learning
center and classroom library where
learners can independently practice
using print conventions.
PA 1.1.1.2.i - Organize author/genre
studies to encourage learners to
become familiar with different
authors, illustrators, and a variety of
genres.
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STAR Reading Kindergarten
Standards List with Aligned Product Skills
Agency Tag Set Name Product Name
Pennsylvania, ELA, 2006, STAR Reading
Kindergarten, Early Learning
Standards, State Department of
Education
Standard Skill Area Description Skill Description
PA 1.1.1.2.j - Model, using the
appropriate language/vocabulary, the
uses of punctuation during shared
reading, when reading aloud, and
during shared and interactive writing.
PA 1.1.1.2.k - Engage learners in
playing games (finding first/last
letters, punctuation marks, title,) with
learners' names or classroom print.
PA 1.1.1.2.l - Provide opportunities
for learners to explore and apply
understanding of books and print
knowledge throughout the school
day.
PA 1.1.2 - Content for Kindergarten
PA 1.1.2.B - Develop sentence
awareness/word awareness
PA 1.1.2.1 - Examples
PA 1.1.2.1.a - Discriminate words in Skill Area 1 - Overall Product Skill 2 - OP02 Recognizing words
a sentence. (OP)
PA 1.1.2.1.b - Clap words in a
sentence.
PA 1.1.2.1.c - Clap syllables in a
word.
PA 1.1.2.1.d - Count and track parts
in a word (syllables) and words in a
sentence.
PA 1.1.2.1.e - Assist teacher in
placing environmental print in
classroom, participate in "Read the
Room"
PA 1.1.2.1.f - Use magazines,
catalogs, circulars, mail, books to
locate words and/or sentences
PA 1.1.2.1.g - Point out punctuation
and tell purpose
PA 1.1.2.2 - Supportive Practices
PA 1.1.2.2.a - Model, using the
appropriate language/vocabulary,
clapping and counting syllables in
learners' names, words, and
sentences.
PA 1.1.2.2.b - Provide opportunities
for learners to clap out syllables in
meaningful words (e.g., words
connected to a unit of study).
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STAR Reading Kindergarten
Standards List with Aligned Product Skills
Agency Tag Set Name Product Name
Pennsylvania, ELA, 2006, STAR Reading
Kindergarten, Early Learning
Standards, State Department of
Education
Standard Skill Area Description Skill Description
PA 1.1.2.2.c - Provide opportunities
for learners to use manipulatives to
count words in spoken sentences.
PA 1.1.2.2.d - Provide opportunities
for learners to explore and apply
understanding of sentence and word
awareness throughout the school
day.
PA 1.1.2.2.e - Read in an
exaggerated way to model the
purpose of punctuation
PA 1.1.2.2.f - Can nod, snap, tap,
jump, hop, bow syllables in learners'
names, words and sentences
PA 1.1.2.2.g - Use words from
vocabulary, calendar, lunch menu,
students' names
PA 1.1.2.2.h - Use buttons, counters,
blocks (non-connecting
manipulatives)
PA 1.1.2.2.i - Model using morning
message, chart paper poems and
chants, Big Books, charts, posters
PA 1.1.3 - Content for Kindergarten
PA 1.1.3.C - Discriminate words and
sounds
PA 1.1.3.1 - Examples
PA 1.1.3.1.a - Tell whether
environmental sounds are the same
or different.
PA 1.1.3.1.b - Tell whether speech
sounds are the same or different.
PA 1.1.3.1.c - Identify and produce
initial sounds in words.
PA 1.1.3.1.d - Sort and classify words
by initial sound.
PA 1.1.3.1.e - Identify initial, final and
medial sounds in words.
PA 1.1.3.1.f - Listen to environmental
sounds (inside and outside), CD or
tape of environmental sounds
PA 1.1.3.1.g - Bring in objects to sort
by sound
PA 1.1.3.1.h - Use rubber bands or
elastic to demonstrate stretching of
words
PA 1.1.3.2 - Supportive Practices
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STAR Reading Kindergarten
Standards List with Aligned Product Skills
Agency Tag Set Name Product Name
Pennsylvania, ELA, 2006, STAR Reading
Kindergarten, Early Learning
Standards, State Department of
Education
Standard Skill Area Description Skill Description
PA 1.1.3.2.a - Model, using the
appropriate language/vocabulary,
discriminating words and sounds.
PA 1.1.3.2.b - Provide opportunities
for learners to listen to sounds in
order to give a "thumbs up or down"
when sounds are the same or
different.
PA 1.1.3.2.c - Provide opportunities
for learners to sort pictures and/or
objects by beginning sounds.
PA 1.1.3.2.d - Model, using the
appropriate language/vocabulary,
"stretching" through words to hear
each sound.
PA 1.1.3.2.e - Provide opportunities
for learners to "stretch" through
words to emphasize and identify
initial, medial and final sounds in
words.
PA 1.1.3.2.f - Hint- when using
consonant sounds isolation for
discrimination make sure to use very
dissimilar sounds in the beginning
and work your way to very similar
sounds
PA 1.1.3.2.g - Bring in subjects for
learners to sort by beginning sounds;
PA 1.1.3.2.h - Have children stretch
rubber bands or elastic if you
determine learners are able to use
these and stretch your voice sounds
simultaneously
PA 1.1.4 - Content for Kindergarten
PA 1.1.4.D - Discriminate, identify,
and produce rhyming words and
alliteration
PA 1.1.4.1 - Examples
PA 1.1.4.1.a - Recognize and identify
rhyming words.
PA 1.1.4.1.b - Identify and produce
rhyming words.
PA 1.1.4.1.c - Identify and produce
sentences with rhyming.
PA 1.1.4.1.d - Identify and produce
words that begin with the same
sound.
PA 1.1.4.1.e - Identify and produce
sentences with alliteration.
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STAR Reading Kindergarten
Standards List with Aligned Product Skills
Agency Tag Set Name Product Name
Pennsylvania, ELA, 2006, STAR Reading
Kindergarten, Early Learning
Standards, State Department of
Education
Standard Skill Area Description Skill Description
PA 1.1.4.1.f - Repeat and recite
fingerplays, rhymes and songs daily
PA 1.1.4.1.g - Listen for rhyming
words in stories, poems, individual
word pairs
PA 1.1.4.2 - Supportive Practices
PA 1.1.4.2.a - Model, using the
appropriate language/vocabulary,
discriminating, identifying, and
producing rhyming words and
alliteration.
PA 1.1.4.2.b - Engage learners in
producing and mimicking rhymes,
songs and finger plays.
PA 1.1.4.2.c - Read books with
examples of alliterative and rhyming
language and identify rhyming words
and words with similar sounds.
PA 1.1.4.2.d - Provide opportunities
for learners to identify rhyming pairs
by giving a "thumbs up."
PA 1.1.4.2.e - Use the cloze
procedure to engage learners in
completing a rhyme when reading a
familiar poem/song or predictable
book.
PA 1.1.4.2.f - Highlight the rhyme
found in nursery rhymes, poems, and
finger plays.
PA 1.1.4.2.g - Provide opportunities
for learners as they "stretch" through
words to emphasize and identify
initial, medial and final sounds in
words.
PA 1.1.4.2.h - Provide opportunities
for learners to explore and apply
understanding of rhyming and
alliteration throughout the school day.
PA 1.1.5 - Content for Kindergarten
PA 1.1.5.E - Segment phonemes to
form words.
PA 1.1.5.1 - Examples
PA 1.1.5.1.a - Isolate initial
consonant sounds in single-syllable
words.
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