Kentucky Reading and Writing C.1.5

ELA1st GradeComposition

The Standard

With guidance and support, participate in shared research and writing projects.

Kentucky Academic Standards for Reading and Writing (2025) · Research to Build and Present Knowledge

Teacher's field guide

What Students Need to Do: Students help a group answer a question using a book, picture, observation, or short interview. With teacher help, they choose facts and write a shared poster or short report.
What Mastery Looks Like: A student offers a fact that answers the group’s question and shows where they found it. They help turn the fact into a sentence for the group’s writing.
Common Misconceptions: Students may treat a guess, such as “all trees grow apples,” as a fact. They may copy words from a book without checking whether those words answer the group’s question.
How to Assess It: After reading one page of a tree book together, ask pairs to write one fact for a class poster. Have them point to the picture or words that support it.

Lesson moves

Give pairs leaves and magnifiers, then have them describe shapes and colors for a class tree observation chart.
Read a page about tree roots and ask, “What should our class poster say about roots, and where did you find that fact?”
Play Fact or Guess with cards about trees, checking each claim against pictures and words in a nonfiction book.
Post the class’s researched tree facts beside a schoolyard tree for other classes to read.

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