CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.K.3
The Standard
Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to narrate a single event or several loosely linked events, tell about the events in the order in which they occurred, and provide a reaction to what happened.
Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts · Writing Standards
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students create a simple story about something that happened. They use pictures, spoken words, labels, or sentences to show the order and share how they felt.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student focuses on one experience or a few connected moments. The pictures and words follow a clear sequence, and the ending includes a feeling or response.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may draw unrelated scenes or switch to an imagined event midway through. They may tell events out of order or leave out what happened between two pictures. Some name a feeling without connecting it to the event.
How to Assess It
- Give students a three-box page labeled First, Next, and Last. Ask them to draw and tell or write about something they did yesterday, including how they felt.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give students three picture cards from a familiar routine to arrange, glue, and label with what happened first, next, and last.
Invite partners to tell about losing something, using first, next, and last, then name their feeling when it was found.
Play Sequence Mix-Up by reading three event sentences out of order and having students hold up 1, 2, or 3.
After recess, students make a picture diary of one playground event and add a face showing their reaction.
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