CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.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 Literature

Teacher's field guide

What Students Need to Do: Students listen to or look through a story and notice important details. With teacher help, they ask and answer questions about characters, settings, and events.
What Mastery Looks Like: Students ask a relevant question about a character, setting, problem, or event. With a prompt or picture cue, they answer questions using accurate story details.
Common Misconceptions: Students may answer from their own experience instead of the story. They may name a minor detail, confuse characters, or ask a question unrelated to the events.
How to Assess It: After a read-aloud, ask, "Who had the problem, and what happened?" Have each student answer using words or pictures from the story.

Lesson moves

Read a picture book, then let students place character, setting, and event picture cards on a story mat.
Pause during a read-aloud and ask, "What question could we ask to learn more about what just happened?"
Play Question Toss by passing a beanbag, asking a story question, and having the catcher answer before passing it on.
After a class event, students ask a partner who, what, and where questions, then compare those answers with questions about a story.

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Learning progression

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