CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.K.4

ELAKindergartenPresentation of Knowledge and Ideas

The Standard

Describe familiar people, places, things, and events and, with prompting and support, provide additional detail.

Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts · Speaking and Listening Standards

Teacher's field guide

What Students Need to Do: Students talk about someone, somewhere, something, or an experience they know well. They add details about appearance, location, actions, or feelings when asked follow-up questions.
What Mastery Looks Like: A student gives a clear description with at least two relevant details. After a follow-up question, the student adds another detail that helps listeners picture it.
Common Misconceptions: Students may only name the subject, such as “my dog,” without telling anything about it. They may give unrelated facts, repeat the same detail, or answer a follow-up question with one word.
How to Assess It: Ask each student to describe a favorite place in the school. Prompt, “What do you see or do there?” and note whether the student adds one relevant detail.

Lesson moves

Place a familiar classroom object in a mystery bag, then have students feel it and describe its shape, texture, and use for classmates to guess.
Ask, “Tell us about a person who helps you,” then have partners ask one follow-up question that invites another detail.
Roll a detail die labeled looks, sounds, feels, does, where, and when, then add that kind of detail to a description.
Take a short school walk, then have students describe one location to a new student using three helpful details.

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Learning progression

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