CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.K.8
The Standard
With guidance and support from adults, recall information from experiences or gather information from provided sources to answer a question.
Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts · Writing Standards
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students answer a simple question using a remembered event or details from a teacher-provided book, picture, video, or object. They respond through drawing, labels, dictation, or early writing, with adult prompts as needed.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Given one clear question and two short sources, a student can find a useful detail and include it in an answer. The drawing or sentence stays on topic, and the student can name the source used.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may share a favorite fact that does not answer the question. They may copy words from a book without knowing what they mean, or treat a guess as information from the source.
How to Assess It
- After reading one page about penguins, ask, "How do penguins stay warm?" Have students draw and label an answer, then point to the detail that helped them.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Let students examine a pinecone, then draw and label one detail that answers, "How are the seeds protected?"
After a class walk, ask, "What signs of the season did we notice?" Record student answers in a shared chart.
Play Source Detective by showing picture cards and having students choose which card answers a spoken question.
Use the school lunch menu to answer, "What fruit is served tomorrow?" Students circle the information and draw the fruit.
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