Kentucky Reading and Writing L.K.1.c
The Standard
- L.K.1
- When writing or speaking, demonstrate appropriate use of:
interrogative sentences using who, what, where, when, why and how.
Kentucky Academic Standards for Reading and Writing (2025) · Conventions of General American English
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students ask questions to find out about a person, thing, place, time, reason, or way something happened. They choose a question word that fits what they want to know.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student asks, “Who brought the dog?” to find out a name and “Where is the dog?” to find out a place. They can say the questions aloud and write one with a question mark.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may ask “Where did it happen?” when they mean to ask when it happened. They may put a question mark after a statement instead of writing a question.
How to Assess It
- Show a picture of a child holding an umbrella. Ask students to say one question about the person and one about the reason for the umbrella, then write one question with a question mark.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Hide a toy dinosaur under a cup, then have children uncover it and ask a partner where it was hidden.
Show a picture of a broken kite and ask, “What question could help us find out why it broke?”
Play question-word bingo: say “Ask about a place,” then have children cover the matching word and say a full question.
During snack, have children ask the helper what is being served and where to put their cups.
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Related Standards
- RL.2.1
Ask and answer such questions as who, what, where, when, why and how, and make and support logical inferences to construct meaning from the text.
- RI.2.1
Ask and answer such questions as who, what, where, when, why, and how, and make and support logical inferences to construct meaning from the text.
- L.1.1.h
declarative, interrogative, imperative and exclamatory sentences in response to prompts.
- RL.1.6
With prompting and support, identify who is telling the story at various points in a text.
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