Kentucky Reading and Writing RI.1.3

ELA1st GradeReading Informational Text

The Standard

With prompting and support, identify the connection between individuals, events, ideas or pieces of information over the course of a text.

Kentucky Academic Standards for Reading and Writing (2025) · Key Ideas and Details

Teacher's field guide

What Students Need to Do: Students read or listen to a short nonfiction text and find details that go together. With a question or picture cue, they tell how a person, event, or fact connects to something else in the text.
What Mastery Looks Like: After hearing a text about planting, a student points to where a child waters a seed and where a sprout appears. They explain that watering helped the seed grow.
Common Misconceptions: Students may name two facts without explaining how they connect. They may rely on what they already know instead of checking what the text says.
How to Assess It: Read aloud: “Ben planted a seed. He watered it each day. A small plant grew.” Ask, “What did Ben do that helped the plant grow? Point to the words that tell you.”

Lesson moves

Read a three-sentence seed text, then have pairs place seed, watering can, and sprout picture cards beside matching sentences and explain one link.
After reading a short text about bees, ask, “How does a bee visiting flowers connect to plants making seeds? Show me both parts.”
Give pairs sentence cards from a firefighter text and have them match the alarm, spraying water, and fire going out to explain what happened.
Read aloud, “The cook washes apples. She puts them on trays. Children eat the apples,” then ask how the cook helps children at lunch.

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