The current educational climate demands that teachers correlate their lesson content and classroom activities with specific learning standards. To assist teachers in meeting these demands, we have created the following list of specific standards addressed by each of our books. While we are referring to California standards, those of other states can be quite similar. We have also listed the California Learning Standards to which we refer in the hope that teachers everywhere may correlate our materials with the standards in effect in their states.
We hope this helps.
- Kaye Espinosa
CALIFORNIA LEARNING STANDARDS READING
R1.0 Word Analysis, Fluency, Systematic Vocabulary Development
R1.1 Identify the front cover, back cover and title page of a book.
R1.2 Follow words from left to right and from top to bottom on the printed page.
R1.3 Understand that printed materials provide information.
R1.4 Recognize that sentences in print are made up of separate words.
R1.5 Distinguish letters from words.
R1.6 Recognize and name all uppercase and lowercase letters of the alphabet.
R2.0 Reading Comprehension
R2.3 Connect to life experiences the information and events in texts.
R2.4 Retell familiar stories.
R3.0 Literary Response and Analysis
R3.1 Distinguish fantasy from realistic text.
R3.3 Identify characters, settings and important events.
LISTENING AND SPEAKING
LSS1.0 Listening and Speaking Strategies
LSS1.1 Understand and follow one and two-step oral directions.
MATHEMATICS - MEASUREMENT AND GEOMETRY
NS1.2 Count, recognize, represent, name and order numbers (up to 30).
NS1.2 Know that the larger numbers describe sets with more objects in them than the smaller numbers have.
MMG1.3 Name the days of the week, hour of everyday events.
MMG2.0 Identify objects in the environment and describe the geometric features.
MMG2.1 Identify and describe common geometric objects (EX: circle, square, triangle, rectangle, cube, sphere, cone).
MMG2.2 Compare familiar plane and solid objects by common attributes (EX: position, shape, size, roundness, number of corners).
SCIENCE
S2.0 Life Sciences: Different types of plants and animals inhabit the Earth.
S2.a Observe and describe similarities and differences in the appearance and behavior of plants and animals (EX: seed-bearing plants, birds, fish, insects).
S3.0 Earth Sciences: The Earth is composed of land, air and water.
S3.b Changes in weather occur from day to day and across seasons affecting Earth and its inhabitants.
HISTORY/SOCIAL SCIENCE
HSS2.0 Students recognize national and state symbols and icons such as the
national and state flags, the bald eagle, and the Statue of Liberty.
HSS3.0 Students match simple descriptions of work that people do and names of related jobs at the school, in the local community, and from historical accounts.
HSS6.0 Students understand that history relates to events, people and places
of other times.
HSS6.1 Identify the purposes of, and the people and events honored in commemorative holidays, including the human struggles that were behind the events (EX: Thanksgiving, Independence Day, Washington’s and Lincoln’s Birthdays, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Memorial Day, Labor Day, Columbus Day and Veterans Day).
THEME BOOKS
BEGINNING LESSONS: LS1.1 - MMG2.1 - MMG2.2 - S2.a -HSS6.0 HSS6.1
PRE-KINDERGARTEN LESSONS: LS1.1 - MMG2.1 - MMG2.2 - S2.a -HSS6.0 - HSS6.1
NURSERY RHYMES: R3.1 - LS1.1 - LS2.2 - MMG2.1 - MMG2.2
MORE RHYMES: R3.1 - LS1.1 - LS2.2 - MMG2.1 - MMG2.2
THE FARM: LS1.1 - MMG2.1 - MMG2.2 - S2.a
FALL: LS1.1 - MMG2.1 - MMG2.2 - HSS6.0 -HSS6.1
WINTER: LS1.1 - MMG2.1 - MMG2.2 - HSS6.0 -HSS6.1
SPRING: L1.1 - MMG2.1 - MMG2.2 - HSS6.0 -HSS6.1
ANIMALS: LS1.1 - MMG2.1 - MMG2.2 - S2.a
PEOPLE: LS1.1 - MMG2.1 - MMG2.2 - HSS3.0 -HSS6.0 - HSS6.1
ABC ANIMALS: R1.1 - R1.2 - R1.3 - R1.4 - R1.5 - R1.6 -R2.3 - R3.1 - LS1.1 - MMG2.1 - MMG2.2 -S2.a
THE QUILT BOOK: LS1.1 - MMG2.1 - MMG2.2
MAKE-A-BOOKS
COLORS: R1.1 - R1.2 - R1.3 - R1.4 - R2.3 - LS1.1 - MMG2.1 - MMG2.2
COUNTING SHAPES 1, 2, 3: R1.1 - R1.2 - R1.3 - R1.4 - R2.2 - R2.3 - RLS1.1 - NS1.2 - MMG2.1 - MMG2.2
WHO WILL I BE TODAY?: R1.1 - R1.2 - R1.3 - R1.4 - R2.2 - R2.3 - RLS1.1 - NS1.2 - MMG2.1 - MMG2.2 - HSS3.0
THE APPLE TREE: R1.1 - R1.2 - R1.3 - R1.4 - R2.3 - R3.1 -LS1.1 - MMG2.1 - MMG2.2 - S2.a - S3.b
WEATHER: R1.1 - R1.2 - R1.3 - R1.4 - R2.3 - LS1.1 - S3.b
THE MAGIC VINE: R1.1 - R1.2 - R1.3 - R1.4 - R2.3 - R3.1 -LS1.1 - MMG2.1 - MMG2.2 - S2.a - S3.b
NOCTURNAL ANIMALS: R1.1 - R1.2 - R1.3 - R1.4 - R2.3 - R3.1 - LS1.1 - MMG2.1 - MMG2.2 - S2.a - S3.b
THE THANKSGIVING STORY: R1.1 - R1.2 - R1.3 - R1.4 - R2.3 - R3.1 -LS1.1 - MMG2.1 - MMG2.2 - HSS6.0 -HSS6.1
SIGNS OF CHRISTMAS: R1.1 - R1.2 - R1.3 - R1.4 - R2.3 - LS1.1 - MMG2.1 - MMG2.2
THE SNOWMAN: R1.1 - R1.2 - R1.3 - R1.4 - R2.3 - R3.1 - LS1.1 - MMG2.1 - MMG2.2 - S3.b
ANIMALS IN WINTER: R1.1 - R1.2 - R1.3 - R1.4 - R2.3 - R3.1 - LS1.1 - MMG2.1 - MMG2.2 - S2.a - S3.b
THE MITTEN: R1.1 - R1.2 - R1.3 - R1.4 - R2.4 - R3.1 - R3.3 - LS1.1 - MMG2.1 - MMG2.2
AMERICA: R1.1 - R1.2 - R1.3 - R1.4 - R2.3 - R3.1 - LS1.1 - MMG2.1 - MMG2.2 - HSS2.0 - HSS6.0 - HSS6.1
EARTH, SUN, STARS, & MOON: R1.1 - R1.2 - R1.3 - R1.4 - R2.3 - R3.1 - LS1.1 - MMG2.1 - MMG2.2 - S2.a - S3.b
EGGS, EGGS, WHO LAYS EGGS?: R1.1 - R1.2 - R1.3 - R1.4 - R2.3 - R3.1 - LS1.1 - MMG2.1 - MMG2.2 - S2.a - S3.b
THE CATERPILLAR SONG: R1.1 - R1.2 - R1.3 - R1.4 - R2.3 - R3.1 - LS1.1 - MMG2.1 - MMG2.2 - S2.a - S3.b
INSECTS: R1.1 - R1.2 - R1.3 - R1.4 - R2.3 - R3.1 -LS1.1 - MMG2.1 - MMG2.2 - S2.a - S3.b
THINGS THAT GO: R1.1 - R1.2 - R1.3 - R1.4 - R2.3 - LS1.1 - MMG2.1 - MMG2.2
ON THE FARM: R1.1 - R1.2 - R1.3 - R1.4 - R2.3 - R3.1 - LS1.1 - MMG2.1 - MMG2.2 - S2.a - S3.b
THE SUNFLOWER: R1.1 - R1.2 - R1.3 - R1.4 - R2.3 - R3.1 -LS1.1 - MMG2.1 - MMG2.2 - S2.a - S3.b
THE RAIN FOREST: R1.1 - R1.2 - R1.3 - R1.4 - R2.3 - R3.1 - LS1.1 - MMG2.1 - MMG2.2 - S2.a - S3.b
ZOO ANIMALS: R1.1 - R1.2 - R1.3 - R1.4 - R2.3 - R3.1 - LS1.1 - MMG2.1 - MMG2.2 - S2.a - S3.b
THE OCEAN BLUE: R1.1 - R1.2 - R1.3 - R1.4 - R2.3 - R3.1 - LS1.1 - MMG2.1 - MMG2.2 - S2.a - S3.b
THE GINGERBREAD MAN: R1.1 - R1.2 - R1.3 - R1.4 - R2.4 - R3.1 - R3.3 - LS1.1 - MMG2.1 - MMG2.2
LITTLE RED HEN: R1.1 - R1.2 - R1.3 - R1.4 - R2.4 - R3.1 - R3.3 - LS1.1 - MMG2.1 - MMG2.2
