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From this browse and search tool, you will find the New York State (NYS) Learning Standards statements for all seven standard areas across grades Pre K - 12. The NYS Learning Standards provides the foundation for the NYS Assessments and the local core curriculum.

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Standard Area - ELA: NYS Next Generation English Language Arts

Grade Band - PK-2: Prekindergarten-Second Grades

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Strand - PK-2L: Language Standards

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Cluster - Conventions of Academic English/Language for Learning: Grade Band PK-2 Ongoing Skills

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Standard - PK-2LAS1:
Demonstrate command of the conventions of academic English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.While building proficiency in English, ELLs/MLLs, in English as a New Language and Bilingual Education programs may demonstrate skills bilingually or transfer linguistic knowledge across languages.

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Component - PK-2LAS1a:
Print upper- and lowercase letters in their name → Print many upper- and lowercase letters → Print all upper- and lowercase letters.

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Component - PK-2LAS1b:
Use frequently occurring nouns and verbs (orally) → Use frequently occurring nouns and verbs.

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Component - PK-2LAS1c:
Use common, proper, and possessive nouns.

Component - PK-2LAS1d:
Use collective nouns (e.g., group).

Component - PK-2LAS1e:
Form and use regular plural nouns (e.g., dog, dogs; wish, wishes).

Component - PK-2LAS1f:
Form and use frequently occurring irregular plural nouns (e.g., feet, children, mice, fish).

Component - PK-2LAS1g:
Use singular and plural nouns with matching verbs in basic sentences (e.g., The boy jumps; The boys jump).

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Component - PK-2LAS1h:
Understand and use interrogatives (question words—e.g., who, what, where, when, why, how).

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Component - PK-2LAS1i:
Use frequently occurring prepositions (e.g., to, from, in, out, on, off, for, of, by, with).

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Component - PK-2LAS1j:
Produce and expand complete sentences in shared language activities.

Component - PK-2LAS1k:
Use personal, possessive, and indefinite pronouns (e.g., I, me, my; they, them, their, anyone, everything). → Use reflexive pronouns (e.g., myself, ourselves).

Component - PK-2LAS1l:
Use verbs →Use verbs to convey a sense of past, present, and future (e.g., Yesterday I walked home; Today I walk home; Tomorrow I will walk home). → Form and use the past tense of frequently occurring irregular verbs (e.g., sat, hid, told).

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Component - PK-2LAS1m:
Use frequently occurring adjectives. → Use adjectives or adverbs appropriately.

Component - PK-2LAS1n:
Use frequently occurring conjunctions (e.g., and, but, or, so because). → Use frequently occurring transition words (e.g., first, then, therefore, finally)

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Component - PK-2LAS1o:
Produce and expand complete sentences → Understand and use simple and compound sentences in speech or writing (e.g., The child read the book; The child read the book, but she did not watch the movie).