PK 3

Other Texas Prekindergarten Guidelines sets

• I. Social and Emotional Development - PK4
• II. III. & IV. Emergent Literacy: Language and Communication, Reading, & Writing - PK4
• IX. Physical Development - PK4
• V. Mathematics - PK4
• VI. Science - PK4
• VII. Social Studies - PK4
• VIII. Fine Arts - PK4
• X. Technology - PK4

Child responds to situations in ways that demonstrate an understanding of what has been communicated.PK3.II.A.1

Child shows understanding by following two-step verbal directionsPK3.II.A.2

Child uses language to communicate basic needs and wants.PK3.II.B.1

Child begins to use appropriate language, style, and nonverbal cues during communication with familiar adults and peers.PK3.II.B.2

Child is able to communicate basic information in familiar social settings.PK3.II.B.3

Child begins to use appropriate language for different situationsPK3.II.B.4

Child's speech is understood by familiar adults and peers.PK3.II. C.1

Child begins to mimic intonation of language through songs and fingerplayPK3.II.C.2

Child understands (receptive) and uses (expressive) expected words to label and describe common objects, people, places, actions, and events. PK3.II.D.1

Child understands (receptive) the instructional language of the classroom.  PK3.II.D.2

Child shows a steady increase in understanding (receptive) and using (expressive) language learned from books, conversations, and playPK3.II.D.3 

Child typically uses simple sentences of three to four words, usually in correct word order. PK3.II.E.1

Child begins to use regular plurals and regular past tense correctly.  PK3.II.E.2

Child uses simple sentence structures with at least one idea.PK3.II.E.3

Child understands increasingly longer sentences that combine two ideas.PK3.II.E.4

Child demonstrates an interest in pictures, text, and stories read aloud.PK3.III.A.1

Child tells a story by looking at pictures or from memory. PK3.III.A.2

Child notices and connects meaning to environmental printPK3.III.A.3

Child recognizes when a word in a spoken sentence is changed. PK3.III.B.1

Child begins to distinguish differences between similar-sounding words.PK3.III.B.2

Child recognizes the individual words in a compound word. PK3.III.B.3

Child participates in oral syllabication activities.PK3.III.B.5

Child uses rhyming words through playful activities such as songs, nursery rhymes, and fingerplay. PK3.III.B.6

Child uses alliteration through playful activities such as songs and read alouds. PK3.III.B.7

Child participates in onset-rime blending activities (in English only).PK3.III.B.8

Child shows awareness of letters by singing alphabet songs and recognizing some frequently encountered letters (e.g., first letter of name or letters in environmental print).PK3.III.C.1

Child identifies the letter associated with the sound of the first letter of his name.PK3.III.C.2

Child produces the correct sound for the first letter of his name.PK3.III.C.3

Child re-enacts a story after it has been read aloud. PK3.III.D.1

Child makes personal connections to books read aloud. PK3.III.D.2

Child asks and answers age-appropriate questions about a book. PK3.III.D.3

Child attempts to make predictions by looking at the cover of a book or the pictures within a story.PK3.III.D.4

Child can distinguish between pictures and print. PK3.III.E.1

Child handles books with increasing skill and imitates reading with awareness of directionality (e.g., imitates reading text across a page).PK3.III.E.2

Child begins to notice the basic features of print (e.g., repeating words, space between words, punctuation vs. letters).PK3.III.E.3

Child engages in free-choice drawing and writing activities. PK3.IV.A.1

Child attempts to draw and write for many purposes and begins to explore different writing tools.PK3.IV.A.2

Child discusses and contributes ideas for drafts composed in whole/small group writing activities with adult prompting. •PK3.IV.B.1

Child observes and discusses ideas for revising (add, take out, change) drawings and/or written words in whole/small group writing activities. PK3.IV.B.2

Child shares written products with others. PK3.IV.B.3

Child attempts to write some letters of own name (usually beginning with the first letter). PK3.IV.C.1

Child uses drawings, scribbles, and mock letters to communicate ideas.PK3.IV.C.2

Child begins to write using letter-like forms. PK3.IV.C.3

Child begins to show understanding of directionality (e.g., attempts to write top to bottom, left to right), but may still start at random places on a page. •PK3.IV.C.4

Child rote counts from 1 to 10. PK3.V.A.1

Child counts up to 5 objects with one-to-one correspondence. PK3.V.A.2

Child counts up to 5 items and demonstrates cardinality by communicating that the last number indicates how many items are in the set. PK3.V.A.3

Child instantly recognizes the quantity of up to 3 objects without counting (subitizes). PK3.V.A.4

Child recognizes numerals 0-5. PK3.V.A.5

Child represents quantities up to 5. PK3.V.A.6

Child compares sets of objects up to 5 using comparative language (e.g., more than, less than, same number of). PK3.V.A.7

Child uses objects to demonstrate that adding one or more objects to a set will increase the number of objects in the set.  PK3.V.B.1

Child uses objects to demonstrate that taking away one or more objects from a set will decrease the number of objects in the set.PK3.V.B.2

Child names and describes common 2D shapes. PK3.V.C.1

Child attempts to create shapes using materials and/or manipulatives.PK3.V.C 2

Child begins to use language to describe position of objects. PK3.V.C.3

Child recognizes common shapes, regardless of size.PK3.V.C.4

Child understands that lengths of objects can vary and be compared. PK3.V.D.1

Child begins to recognize capacity based on how much space exists within an object.  PK3.V.D.2 

Child understands that weights of objects can vary and be compared. PK3.V.D.3

Child shows awareness of the passage of time within a day.PK3.V.D.4

Child sorts objects that are the same and different. PK3.V.E.1

Child participates in group activities of collecting data and organizing it into graphic representations.PK3.V.E.2

Child recognizes and duplicates patterns.PK3.V.E.3

Child masters basic skills of running, jumping, climbing, and pedaling.PK3.IX.A.1

Child engages in movement sequences with adult support.PK3.IX.A.2

Child experiments with a variety of fine motor tasks but may lack strength and control. PK3.IX.B.1

Child shows emerging proficiency in tasks requiring eye-hand coordination.PK3.IX.B.2