Kahua Standards and Benchmarks
PK-12 essential standards and benchmarks for Hawaiian-focused education.
Pre-K - English / LA
In addition to HFCS ‘Āina-based Learning Competencies (click to view), the PK-12 English Language Arts (E/LA) kahua is grounded in the belief that the purpose of reading and writing is constructing meaning. Reading allows the reader to construct meaning based on the writing by an author and writing allows the writer to construct meaning to convey to a reader.
- ELA.PK.1Learn about my various moʻokūʻauhau (i.e. my ʻohana, my school, my home/school ʻāina).
- ELA.PK.2Use ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi words to kilo, identify, name, and read environmental indicators (i.e. senses, intuition, prior knowledge) in order to make inferences and predictions.
- ELA.PK.3Demonstrate loina when participating in cultural protocol (i.e. school-wide piko, oli mahalo, puka kula, kamaʻāina/malihini).
- ELA.PK.4Frequently interact with my ʻāina at various times of day and year to develop a relationship with ʻāina.
- ELA.PK.5Celebrate the accomplishments of historical and contemporary Hawaiian community leaders and emulate their actions (i.e. aliʻi, ʻōpūaliʻi/kapu aloha, kiaʻi).
- ELA.PK.6Engage in conversations with peers, teachers, family members, and others.
- ELA.PK.7Explore and use literacy materials (books, paper, writing and drawing implements, technology) independently for own purposes.
- ELA.PK.8Engage in conversation and literacy activities appropriate to classroom discussion with prompting and support.
- ELA.PK.9Recall and use high frequency and common words, phrases, and sentences relevant to both cultural and instructional settings with fluency.
- ELA.PK.10Speak and share information about an object, idea, and/or feeling with an audience.
- I.Reading And Writing
- ELA.PK.11Actively listen to text (stories, songs, mele, poetry) being read aloud and participate in discussion of text and illustrations.
- ELA.PK.12Make connections between text ideas and own life experiences and with support, ask and answer questions about a text.
- ELA.PK.13Experiment with literacy materials and equipment with emergent forms of writing, drawing, and reading.
- ELA.PK.14Draw and talk about own learning and experiences using the writing process
- ELA.PK.15Use and attribute sources of information (ʻike kupuna, interviewees, and text) in oral presentations (“My aunty told me about the honu.”)
- II.Language And Vocabulary
- ELA.PK.16Notice patterns in text and the natural world, including rhyme and interesting and repeated vocabulary, and seasonal phenomena.
- ELA.PK.17Notice that letters are associated with sounds.
- ELA.PK.18Notice that groups of letters form words, such as names and labels.
- ELA.PK.19Recognize 5-10 letters.
- ELA.PK.20Recognize some sound-symbol relationships between letters.
- ELA.PK.21Recognize own first name and say letters in name with accuracy.