CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.K.3

ELAKindergartenKey Ideas and Details

The Standard

With prompting and support, describe the connection between two individuals, events, ideas, or pieces of information 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 identify two people, facts, or happenings in a nonfiction read aloud. With picture cues and teacher questions, they explain how the two are related.
What Mastery Looks Like: Students clearly explain a relationship using words such as because, both, or then. They point to pictures or details from the text to support their answer.
Common Misconceptions: Students may name two details without explaining how they relate. They may retell the whole text or confuse sequence with cause and effect.
How to Assess It: Read, “Mia plants a bean seed. She waters it each day. Soon a sprout appears.” Ask, “How are the watering and the sprout connected?”

Lesson moves

After reading about a butterfly, students arrange picture cards showing the caterpillar, chrysalis, and butterfly, then explain how two pictures connect.
Ask, “How are a bird's beak and its food connected?” and record student answers using a shared sentence frame.
Play a matching game where students pair related picture cards, such as rain and puddles, then explain each match.
Read a short text about handwashing, then have students connect soap, germs, and staying healthy to their own classroom routine.

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Learning progression

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