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Lower Elementary Program
At the kindergarten level, Louisiana standards foreground holistic readiness, integrating early learning domains with emerging academic content.
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Print Concepts & Letter Recognition: Students hold books correctly, follow text directionality, and recognize and name all upper- and lowercase letters.
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Phonological Awareness: Children recognize and produce rhymes, count and segment syllables in spoken words, and blend onsets and rimes in single-syllable words.
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Phonics & Phonetic Spelling: Learners write letters to represent consonant and vowel sounds, and spell simple words phonetically to demonstrate grapheme–phoneme.
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Comprehension & Expression: With prompting, students ask and answer questions about key details, retell familiar narratives, and link illustrations to text.
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Emergent Writing: Drawing, dictating, and writing letters or letter clusters allow children to express ideas in writing.
Early Literacy
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Counting & Cardinality: Kindergarteners count to 100 by ones and tens, write numerals to 20, and answer “how many?” questions by counting sets.
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Operations & Equations: They engage in joining and separating object sets and represent simple addition/subtraction situations with objects or drawings.
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Measurement & Geometry: Students describe measurable attributes (e.g., length), compare object sizes, and identify basic shapes in their environment.
Early Numeracy
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Scientific Inquiry: Young learners observe the natural world, ask questions, and describe phenomena in age-appropriate terms.
Science Foundations
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Social Understanding: Students begin to recognize their roles within family and community contexts, fostering early social studies awareness.
Social Studies Foundations
First grade standards in Louisiana amplify kindergarten foundations, prompting students to apply skills strategically and develop conceptual clarity.
Literacy
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Reading Literature: Ask and answer questions about key details in text, retell stories including central messages, and describe characters, settings, and major events using key details.
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Foundational Skills: Decode one-syllable words with long and short vowel patterns, recognize and read irregularly spelled high-frequency words, and begin reading grade-appropriate texts with fluency.
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Writing: Compose opinion and narrative pieces with supportive details, using grade-appropriate conventions.
Numeracy
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Addition & Subtraction: Develop understanding of addition and subtraction within 20, using strategies such as counting on or making ten.
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Place Value: Grasp whole-number relationships and place value in tens and ones.
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Measurement & Data: Compare lengths indirectly, organize and interpret data with up to three categories, and pose and answer questions about data sets.
Science
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Structures & Processes: Use tools and materials to design a human problem solution by mimicking how plants and animals use external parts to survive and grow.
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Heredity: Make observations to compare similarities and differences in external features between young organisms and their parents.
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Behavioral Adaptations: Read texts and use media to identify patterns in behavior between parents and offspring that aid survival.
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Patterns in the Sky: Use observations of the sun, moon, and stars to describe their predictable patterns of movement.
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Seasonal Daylight: Make observations across seasons to compare daylight amounts and relate changes to Earth’s tilt and orbit.
Social Studies
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Historical Thinking: Create chronological event sequences with appropriate vocabulary and differentiate between primary and secondary sources.
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Evidence-Based Claims: Select and use relevant evidence from sources to construct and express supported claims.
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Past vs. Present: Compare life in Louisiana’s past and present and describe how historical events affect the current community.
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Civic Awareness: Describe Louisiana’s state government purpose and structure, identify its branches, and explain civic virtues such as fairness, responsibility, and respect.
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Economic Concepts: Differentiate producers and consumers, explain scarcity, and identify goods, services, and natural resources in Louisiana.
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Geographic Skills: Create and interpret maps and models using cardinal directions, keys, and scale; identify parishes, regions, and landforms in Louisiana.
By the end of second grade, Louisiana learners consolidate literacy and numeracy skills while engaging with more complex texts and mathematical concepts.
Literacy
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Reading Literature: Ask and answer who, what, where, when, why, and how questions to demonstrate understanding of key details.
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Recount & Lesson: Recount stories—including fables and folktales—and determine their central message, lesson, or moral.
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Fluency & Foundational Skills: Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension, decode two-syllable words, and recognize punctuation to guide phrasing.
Numeracy
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Base-Ten Notation: Extend understanding to three-digit numbers, recognizing that digits represent hundreds, tens, and ones.
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Addition & Subtraction Fluency: Build fluency within 100 through strategies grounded in place value and properties of operations.
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Measurement & Data: Use standard units (centimeters, inches), tell and write time to the nearest five minutes, solve word problems involving money, and represent data graphically.
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Geometry: Describe and analyze two- and three-dimensional shapes based on their attributes
Science
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Biodiversity: Observe and compare plant and animal diversity across land and water habitats.
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Rapid vs. Gradual Change: Use evidence from multiple sources to explain that some Earth events occur quickly (e.g., floods) while others happen slowly.
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Erosion Solutions: Compare design solutions to slow or prevent wind and water from reshaping land, using models and data.
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Landform Modeling: Develop models to represent the shapes and types of landforms and bodies of water in a given area.
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Water Distribution: Obtain and communicate information to identify where water is found on Earth and in what states.
Social Studies
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Historical Sequencing & Revolution: Create chronological sequences, differentiate sources, support claims, compare past and present U.S. life, describe the American Revolution’s significance, and identify founding figures and national symbols.
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Civic Structure & Principles: Describe the three branches of the U.S. government, basic democratic principles from the Declaration of Independence and Constitution, and civic virtues like voting and volunteering.
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Economic Foundations: Explain free enterprise, producers and consumers, costs and benefits, specialization, and how resources are used to produce goods and services.
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Geographic Literacy: Create and use maps and models with keys, scale, and compass; describe U.S. and world geographic features, hemispheres, and relative locations.
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Human–Environment Interaction: Identify major natural disasters and their impacts; explain how and why people, goods, and ideas move, including patterns of immigration.
