CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.K.2
The Standard
With prompting and support, retell familiar stories, including key details.
Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts · Reading Standards for Literature
What This Standard Means
Students need to tell a familiar story again in their own words. They should name the main characters, say where the story happens, and put the big events in order. They can use pictures, sentence frames, puppets, or teacher questions to help.
Mastery looks like a child giving a simple beginning, middle, and end with details that matter. Common trouble spots are naming every tiny detail, skipping the problem, mixing up event order, or repeating memorized lines without showing they understand the story.
Ways to Teach It
- Use picture cards from The Three Little Pigs and have students place them in order, then retell the story with finger puppets.
- Ask, “What happened first, next, and last?” after rereading a familiar story, and have students answer with a partner.
- Give three story event cards and ask each student to point to the card that shows what happened in the middle.
- Connect retelling to telling what happened during recess, first, next, and last, using a simple three-box drawing.
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Related Standards
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.1.2
Retell stories, including key details, and demonstrate understanding of their central message or lesson.
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.K.4
Describe familiar people, places, things, and events and, with prompting and support, provide additional detail.
- 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.3
With prompting and support, identify characters, settings, and major events in a story.