CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.1.2
The Standard
Retell stories, including key details, and demonstrate understanding of their central message or lesson.
Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts · Reading Standards for Literature
What This Standard Means
Students need to retell a story in order, using the big events and important details. They also need to say what the story teaches, such as be kind, tell the truth, or keep trying.
Mastery looks like a child naming the characters, setting, problem, key events, solution, and lesson without copying every page. Students often retell every tiny detail, skip the problem, mix up the order, or give a lesson that does not match the story.
Ways to Teach It
- Use picture cards from a familiar story and have students place them in order, then orally retell the story to a partner.
- After reading, ask students to finish this sentence: The lesson in this story is ___ because ___.
- Give three event cards from the story and ask students to point to the one that shows the problem or lesson.
- Connect to recess by asking, What story lesson could help someone solve a problem with a friend today?
Plan a Lesson for CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.1.2
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Related Standards
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.2.2
Recount stories, including fables and folktales from diverse cultures, and determine their central message, lesson, or moral.
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.K.2
With prompting and support, identify the main topic and retell key details of a text.
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.K.2
With prompting and support, retell familiar stories, including key details.
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.3.2
Recount stories, including fables, folktales, and myths from diverse cultures; determine the central message, lesson, or moral and explain how it is conveyed th...