1A: Demonstrate understanding through age-appropriate responses.
1B: Communicate effectively using language appropriate to the situation and audience.
1C: Use language to convey information and ideas.
1D: Speak using conventions of Standard English.
1E: Use increasingly complex phrases, sentences and vocabulary.
10A: Generate questions and processes for answering them.
10B: Organize and describe data and information.
10C: Determine, describe and apply the probabilities of events.
11A: Develop beginning skills in the use of science and engineering practices, such as observing, asking questions, solving problems and drawing conclusions.
12A: Understand that living things grow and change.
12B: Understand that living things rely on the environment and/or others to live and grow.
12C: Explore the physical properties of objects.
12D: Explore concepts of force and motion.
12E: Explore concepts and information related to the Earth, including ways to take care of our planet.
12F: Explore changes related to the weather and seasons.
13A: Understand rules to follow when investigating and exploring.
13B: Use tools and technology to assist with science and engineering investigations.
14A: Understand what it means to be a member of a group and community.
14B: Understand the structures and functions of the political systems of Illinois, the United States and other nations.
14C: Understand ways groups make choices and decisions.
14D: Understand the role that individuals can play in a group or community.
14E: Understand United States foreign policy as it relates to other nations and international issues.
14F: Understand the development of United States’ political ideas and traditions.
15A: Explore roles in the economic system and workforce.
15B: Explore issues of limited resources in the early childhood environment and world.
15C: Understand that scarcity necessitates choices by producers
15D: Explore concepts about trade as an exchange of goods or services.
15E: Understand the impact of government policies and decisions on production and consumption in the economy.
16A: Explore his or her self and personal history.
16B: Understand the development of significant political events.
16C: Understand the development of economic systems.
16D: Understand Illinois, United States and world social history.
16E: Understand Illinois, United States and world environmental history.
18A: Explore people, their similarities and their differences.
18B: Develop an awareness of self within the context of family.
18C: Understand how social systems form and develop over time.
2A: Demonstrate interest in stories and books.
2B: Recognize key ideas and details in stories.
2C: Recognize concepts of books.
2D: Establish personal connections with books.
21A: Demonstrate individual responsibility during group physical activities.
21B: Demonstrate cooperative skills during structured group physical activity.
22A: Explain the basic principles of health promotion, illness prevention, treatment and safety.
22B: Describe and explain the factors that influence health among individuals, groups and communities.
22C: Explain how the environment can affect health.
24A: Demonstrate procedures for communicating in positive ways, resolving differences and preventing conflict.
24B: Apply decision-making skills related to the protection and promotion of individual health.
24C: Demonstrate skills essential to enhancing health and avoiding dangerous situations.
26A: Understand processes, traditional tools and modern technologies used in the arts.
26B: Understand ways to express meaning through the arts.
27A: Analyze how the arts function in history, society and everyday life.
27B: Understand how the arts shape and reflect history, society and everyday life.
29A: Use the home language to attain benchmarks across all the learning areas and to build upon and develop transferable language and literacy skills.
3A: Recognize key ideas and details in nonfiction text.
3B: Recognize features of nonfiction books.
30A: Identify and manage one’s emotions and behavior.
30B: Recognize own uniqueness and personal qualities.
30C: Demonstrate skills related to successful personal and school outcomes.
31A: Develop positive relationships with peers and adults.
31B: Use communication and social skills to interact effectively with others.
31C: Demonstrate an ability to prevent, manage and resolve interpersonal conflicts in constructive ways.
32A: Begin to consider ethical, safety and societal factors in making decisions.
32B: Apply decision‐making skills to deal responsibly with daily academic and social situations.
32C: Contribute to the well‐being of one’s school and community.
4A: Demonstrate understanding of the organization and basic features of print.
4B: Demonstrate an emerging knowledge and understanding of the alphabet.
4C: Demonstrate an emerging understanding of spoken words, syllables and sounds (phonemes).
4D: Demonstrate emergent phonics and word-analysis skills.
5A: Demonstrate growing interest and abilities in writing.
5B: Use writing to represent ideas and information.
5C: Use writing to research and share knowledge.
7A: Measure objects and quantities using direct comparison methods and nonstandard units.
7B: Begin to make estimates of measurements.
7C: Explore tools used for measurement.
8A: Explore objects and patterns.
8B: Describe and document patterns using symbols.
9A: Recognize, name and match common shapes.
9B: Demonstrate an understanding of location and ordinal position, using appropriate vocabulary.