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
What This Standard Means
Kindergartners need to tell a simple true or made-up story using pictures, oral words, labels, letters, or sentences. They should show what happened first, next, and last, even if the events are only loosely connected. They also need to say how they felt or what they thought about what happened.
Mastery looks like a child drawing a clear event sequence, dictating or writing matching words, and adding a reaction like “I was happy” or “It was scary.” Students often get stuck listing details with no order, leaving out the ending, or forgetting to include their feeling or response.
Ways to Teach It
- Have students fold paper into three boxes labeled first, next, last, then draw and label a playground story in order.
- Ask, “Tell about something that happened at recess, what happened first, next, and how did you feel?”
- Show three student picture cards mixed up, and ask the child to put them in order and tell the story aloud.
- Read a simple photo sequence from a class event, then have students draw their favorite part and dictate a reaction.
What This Unlocks
Mastery here sets students up for these next.
Related Standards
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.4.3
Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences.
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.2.3
Write narratives in which they recount a well-elaborated event or short sequence of events, include details to describe actions, thoughts, and feelings, use tem...
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.K.2
Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to compose informative/explanatory texts in which they name what they are writing about and supply some inf...
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