Common Core Standards
Speaking & Listening, Kindergarten
Speaking and Listening SL.K.6
Speak audibly and express thoughts, feelings, and ideas clearly.
Kindergartners are still fumbling their way through learning language (aren't we all?) but they don't have to be word maestros to be clearly understood and heard when they're speaking. This standard asks them to drop the mumbling and ditch the tangential, meandering storytelling so they can make a point and make it clearly.