CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.K.1

ELAKindergartenKey Ideas and Details

The Standard

With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text.

Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts · Reading Standards for Informational Text

Teacher's field guide

What Students Need to Do: Students listen to or read a short nonfiction text and notice important facts. They ask relevant questions and answer using details from the words or pictures.
What Mastery Looks Like: A student asks a relevant question before, during, or after reading. The student answers simple questions and points to the words or picture that support the answer.
Common Misconceptions: Students may ask questions unrelated to the topic or answer from personal experience instead of the text. They may rely only on pictures and miss details stated in words.
How to Assess It: Read a short animal fact page aloud. Ask each student to pose one question, then answer a classmate’s question using a word or picture detail.

Lesson moves

Read a photo book page, then have students place sticky notes beside pictures or words that answer prepared question cards.
Ask, “What do you still wonder about this animal?” Record questions, then reread to find which ones the text answers.
Play Question Match by pairing cards labeled who, what, where, and how with matching detail cards from a shared text.
Examine a classroom recycling poster and ask students to answer, “What belongs in the recycling bin?” using poster details.

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Learning progression

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