CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.K.5
The Standard
Add drawings or other visual displays to descriptions as desired to provide additional detail.
Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts · Speaking and Listening Standards
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students describe a person, place, object, or event aloud. They add a drawing or another visual that gives the listener more information.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Students give a clear description and add a matching drawing, photo, object, or chart. They explain how a detail in the visual connects to what they said.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may add a picture that does not match what they say. They may think the picture replaces speaking, or forget to point out useful details.
How to Assess It
- Ask each student to describe a favorite animal and draw one detail that helps listeners understand the description.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give students a mystery object to observe, draw, and describe, including one detail shown clearly in the drawing.
Ask partners, “How does your picture help us understand your favorite place?” Then have each student explain one visual detail.
Play Visual Match by reading short descriptions and having students choose the picture that shows the most helpful details.
Have students give a classroom weather report using a sun, cloud, rain, or snow symbol they created.
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Printable SL.K.5 Worksheet
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Where This Standard Sits
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Related Standards
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.1.7
Use illustrations and details in a story to describe its characters, setting, or events.
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.1.7
Use the illustrations and details in a text to describe its key ideas.
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.4.5
Add audio recordings and visual displays to presentations when appropriate to enhance the development of main ideas or themes.
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