Kentucky Reading and Writing RI.1.2
The Standard
With prompting and support, recognize key details from an informational text to demonstrate understanding of the central idea of a 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 listen to or read a short nonfiction text and tell what it is mostly about. With a question or picture cue, they point to details that support that idea.
What Mastery Looks Like
- After hearing a page about frogs, a student says, 'Frogs change as they grow.' With a prompt, they point to the egg and tadpole details that helped them figure it out.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may name only the topic, such as 'frogs,' instead of telling what the text teaches about frogs. They may pick a favorite fact that does not support the main idea.
How to Assess It
- Read aloud: 'Bees visit flowers. Pollen sticks to their bodies. They carry pollen to other flowers.' Ask, 'What is this mostly telling us about bees, and which sentence helps you know?'
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Read a frog life cycle page, then have pairs order egg, tadpole, and adult frog cards and point to matching text details.
After reading a page about bird nests, ask, 'What does the page teach about nests? Which detail shows that?'
Play Detail Match: read 'Plants need water. Rain wets roots. Rain makes puddles.' Pairs choose the sentence that shows rain helps plants.
Show a bean seed packet with planting steps; ask what it mostly teaches and which step helps students tell.
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Related Standards
- RI.K.3
With prompting and support, identify the individuals, events, ideas, or pieces of information presented over the course of a text.
- RL.1.2
With prompting and support, recognize key details from a literary text to demonstrate understanding of the author’s message, lesson learned and/or moral.
- RL.K.2
With prompting and support, orally recognize key details from a literary text to demonstrate understanding of the lesson in the story.
- RI.K.2
With prompting and support, orally recognize key details from an informational text to demonstrate understanding of the central idea of a text.
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