Kentucky Reading and Writing C.1.2.a
The Standard
- C.1.2
- Compose informative and/or explanatory texts, using a combination of drawing, dictating, writing and digital resources, to establish a topic and provide information about the topic.
With guidance and support from adults, strengthen writing through peer collaboration and adding details through writing and/or pictures as needed.
Kentucky Academic Standards for Reading and Writing (2025) · Text Types and Purpose
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Children share a draft with a partner and listen to a question about what is missing. With a teacher's help, they add words or a picture that makes their meaning clearer.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A child can hear, 'Where did you go?' and add 'to the park' or draw the park. The new detail answers the question rather than just making the page longer.
Common Misconceptions
- Some children think a draft is finished once they write a sentence. Others decorate the picture without adding information the reader needs. They may tell a partner, 'I like it,' instead of asking a helpful question.
How to Assess It
- Give each child the draft 'I saw a dog.' A partner asks, 'What did it look like?' Each child adds a sentence or labeled drawing that answers.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs scene cards and sticky notes; one child writes a sentence, and the other adds a question for the writer to answer.
Write 'The puppy ran away. I found it.' on the board and ask partners, 'Where was the puppy found? What could we add?'
Play Detail Detective: partners trade one-sentence drafts and earn a point when a question leads to a helpful new detail.
Have pairs write directions to the classroom pencil bin; partners follow them, then writers add a missing clue or sketch a landmark.
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Related Standards
- C.K.2.a
The Kindergarten version of this standard.
- C.2.1.a
With guidance and support from adults, strengthen writing through peer collaboration and adding details through writing and/or pictures as needed.
- C.1.1.a
With guidance and support from adults, strengthen writing through peer collaboration and adding details through writing and/or pictures as needed.
- C.2.2.a
The 2nd Grade version of this standard.
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