Kentucky Reading and Writing RI.1.1
The Standard
With prompting and support, ask and answer explicit questions about key concepts and details and make and support logical inferences to construct meaning from the text.
Kentucky Academic Standards for Reading and Writing (2025) · Key Ideas and Details
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students ask and answer questions about facts in a short informational text, with teacher help. They use text clues to figure out something the author does not say directly.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student asks, 'When do squirrels bury nuts?' and answers, 'In fall.' The student says squirrels may save nuts for winter and points to the line about winter food being hard to find.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may answer from what they already know instead of checking the text. They may make a guess without finding a clue to support it. Some think every answer must appear word for word.
How to Assess It
- Read aloud, 'Squirrels bury nuts in fall; food is hard to find in winter.' Ask when they bury nuts and why, then have each child point to a clue and ask one question.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs 'Squirrels bury nuts in fall' and 'Winter has little food' strips; match them to season pictures and explain why squirrels bury nuts.
Read a squirrel paragraph aloud, then ask partners, 'Why might a squirrel bury a nut? Which words helped you decide?'
Play Question Sort with 'When do squirrels bury nuts?' and 'Why might they?' cards; label 'on page' or 'use clues,' then answer.
Post a sample lunch menu, 'Monday: soup; Tuesday: sandwiches'; ask which lunch may need a spoon and which menu word supports that idea.
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With prompting and support, ask and answer explicit questions about key concepts and details, and make logical inferences to construct meaning from the text.
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