Kindergarten CCSS: Speaking and Listening

For Kindergarteners, this Common Core area helps students gain mastery of speaking and listening skills related to the language arts. Collaborative work, oral presentations, and the ability to integrate media, digital tools and group projects are the cornerstones of this area. Those goals can be met with support and prompting. Among the complete standards for this grade, kindergarteners will be asked to: talk with a diverse group of partners about age appropriate topics and books, listen to others and take turns when speaking, ask and answer questions in order to seek help, describe familiar people, places, things, and events, and speak audibly and express themselves clearly.