Common Core · English Language Arts
L.K.4a
Kindergarten · Language
Identify new meanings for familiar words and apply them accurately (e.g., knowing duck is a bird and learning the verb to duck).
- Official code
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.K.4a
- Short code
- L.K.4a
- Subject
- English Language Arts
- Grade
- Kindergarten
- Domain
- Language
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