Kentucky Reading and Writing C.K.5

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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: Children investigate a class question using a picture book, photos, or observations. With teacher help, they share what they found and add to a group chart, page, or poster.
What Mastery Looks Like: A child shares a fact and points to the picture or observation that supports it. They help add a matching drawing, label, or dictated sentence to the group's work.
Common Misconceptions: Children may offer a guess as though it came from the book. Some think they must write a whole page alone, or copy words they do not understand.
How to Assess It: Read one page about butterflies aloud. Ask each child to tell a partner one fact from the page, then add a drawing or dictated label to a class chart.

Lesson moves

Let children inspect bean seedlings, draw one detail they notice, and help label a class observation chart.
Read two pages about snails and ask, 'How do snails move?' Write the children's answer on a class poster.
Show picture cards from a book about frogs and have teams choose which facts belong on a shared frog page.
Watch playground birds for five minutes, then help children dictate a class report about where the birds landed.

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