Current — Florida B.E.S.T. Standards✓ Verified Florida Standard
Florida B.E.S.T. Standard
ELA.K.C.1.1 ↗Print many upper- and lowercase letters.
- Grade:
- K
- Subject:
- English Language Arts (B.E.S.T.)
Supports Florida B.E.S.T. handwriting expectations. Every benchmark below was checked against CPALMS — code, grade, subject, description, current/archived status and destination link. Benchmarks we could not verify are not shown.
Statutory basis: SB 182 (2023) · F.S. §1003.42 — Required instruction — cursive & print handwriting.
Print many upper- and lowercase letters.
Print all upper- and lowercase letters.
Demonstrate legible printing skills.
Write in cursive all upper- and lowercase letters.
Demonstrate legible cursive writing skills.
Demonstrate fluent and legible cursive writing skills.
Given a group of up to 20 objects, count the number of objects in that group and represent the number of objects with a written numeral. State the number of objects in a rearrangement of that group without recounting.
Florida's current B.E.S.T. structure has a single handwriting benchmark per grade. There is no benchmark for an individual letter, word list, or numeral formation, so activities are described as supporting development toward a benchmark rather than meeting it.
Print many upper- and lowercase letters.
Supports development toward Single-letter print formation practice toward printing many upper- and lowercase letters.
View on CPALMS ↗Print all upper- and lowercase letters.
Supports development toward Repeated practice across the full alphabet builds toward printing all upper- and lowercase letters.
View on CPALMS ↗Given a group of up to 20 objects, count the number of objects in that group and represent the number of objects with a written numeral. State the number of objects in a rearrangement of that group without recounting.
Supports development toward Numeral formation practice. The benchmark is about counting and representing quantities with a written numeral — it is not a handwriting benchmark, so this activity supports development toward it rather than meeting it.
View on CPALMS ↗Demonstrate legible printing skills.
Supports development toward Writing whole words in print with spacing builds toward legible printing skills in Grade 2.
View on CPALMS ↗Write in cursive all upper- and lowercase letters.
Supports development toward Individual cursive letter formation builds toward writing all upper- and lowercase letters in cursive.
View on CPALMS ↗Demonstrate legible cursive writing skills.
Supports development toward Joining letters into words builds toward legible cursive writing.
View on CPALMS ↗Demonstrate fluent and legible cursive writing skills.
Supports development toward Timed, connected word practice builds toward fluent and legible cursive writing.
View on CPALMS ↗An earlier version of this app referenced ELA.3.F.1.1 as a cursive handwriting standard. That benchmark does not exist in the Florida B.E.S.T. Standards — handwriting lives in the Communication strand (ELA.<grade>.C.1.1), not the Foundational Skills strand. It has been removed and replaced with verified benchmarks.