Kentucky Reading and Writing C.K.3.a

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The Standard

C.K.3: Compose narratives, using a combination of drawing, dictating, writing and digital resources, to develop real or imagined experiences or multiple events or ideas, using effective technique, descriptive details and clear sequences.

With guidance and support from adults, produce writing in which the development and organization are appropriate to task and purpose.

Kentucky Academic Standards for Reading and Writing (2025) · Text Types and Purpose

Teacher's field guide

What Students Need to Do: With a teacher's help, children decide what they are making and who will use it. They draw, dictate, or write details that fit the purpose and put ideas in an order a reader can follow.
What Mastery Looks Like: With a prompt from the teacher, a child adds a detail that helps the reader. Their pictures, dictated words, or written words stay on topic, with steps or events in a sensible order.
Common Misconceptions: Some children add details they like but that do not help the reader, such as a dinosaur on a handwashing sign. Others put steps in the order they think of them, rather than the order they happen.
How to Assess It: Ask children to draw, label, or dictate two steps for washing hands on a sign for the classroom sink. Ask, 'What should a classmate do first?'

Lesson moves

Give pairs three picture cards showing how to plant a seed; have them order the cards, then draw and label each step.
Ask, 'What would a new student need to know about our classroom?' Have children draw and label one helpful detail.
Show a birthday invitation and a pet description; have children sort picture details by which piece they would help.
Have children draw and label a sign for the classroom recycling bin showing what belongs in it.

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