These teacher practices correlate with the Common Core English Language ArtsLiteracy State Standards for Kindergarten and are intended to give teachers guidance as they carefully, and systematically plan for language arts literacy instruction in kindergarten. Learning to confidently communicate, speak, listen, read and write are multifaceted processes that require a wide variety of instructional approaches during a continuum of growth in language from birtht hrough eight years old. Early literacy activities in kindergarten teach children a great deal about reading and writing but not in ways that look like elementary school instruction.