Kentucky Reading and Writing C.2.2.a
The Standard
- C.2.2
- Compose informative and/or explanatory texts, using 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
- Students share a draft with a classmate and listen to a question or suggestion. With teacher help, they add a detail in words or a picture that helps a reader understand it.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can tell a partner what they want to know more about. They can use a partner's question to add a specific detail to their own draft.
Common Misconceptions
- Some students think revising means only fixing spelling or making the writing longer. Others add a picture that does not match the words or use every suggestion, even when it does not fit.
How to Assess It
- Give each child yesterday's short draft and a partner. Say, 'Ask your partner what they still wonder, then add one detail in words or a picture that answers them.'
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Have students draw a playground, ask a partner what is missing, then add that detail with a colored pencil and a label.
Read 'I saw a dog' to a partner and ask which detail would help them picture the dog.
Play Detail Detective with vague sentence cards: one partner asks a question, and the other adds an answer in words or a sketch.
After recess, partners write notes to an absent classmate about a game they played, then add details to make the notes clear.
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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.1.2.a
The 1st Grade version of this standard.
- 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.
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