Kentucky Reading and Writing C.K.6

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The Standard

With guidance and support, collect information from real-world experiences or provided sources to answer or generate questions.

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

Teacher's field guide

What Students Need to Do: With a teacher's help, children look closely at an object, picture, or book. They use what they notice to answer a question or ask a new one.
What Mastery Looks Like: A child points to a detail and uses it to answer a question. They can ask a question about something they noticed.
Common Misconceptions: Children may guess from memory instead of checking the object, picture, or book. They may make a statement, such as 'The apple has seeds,' when asked what they wonder.
How to Assess It: Show a photo of a bird on a branch and ask, 'Where is the bird? What do you wonder about it?' Have children point to a detail, then say an answer and a question.

Lesson moves

Cut open an apple; children use magnifiers to find seeds, draw what they see, and ask one question about the inside.
Show a nest photo and ask, 'What can we tell from the picture? What would we like to know?'
Using a spotted dog photo, children sort 'has spots' and 'is hungry' cards into 'can see' and 'cannot tell' piles.
Take children outside to check the sky, then ask them to tell a partner what they saw to answer, 'What is the weather today?'

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