Kentucky Reading and Writing RI.1.9

ELA1st GradeReading Informational Text

The Standard

Identify information from two or more texts on similar themes or topics.

Kentucky Academic Standards for Reading and Writing (2025) · Integration of Knowledge and Ideas

Teacher's field guide

What Students Need to Do: Read or listen to two short nonfiction texts about the same topic. Tell one fact from each text and say where each fact came from.
What Mastery Looks Like: A student can name a fact from each text and point to words or a picture that supports it. They keep track of which text gave each fact.
Common Misconceptions: Students may give two facts from one text and forget the other. They may add something they already know instead of finding a fact in either text.
How to Assess It: Hand out two cards, A: 'Penguins swim. They catch fish.' and B: 'Penguins huddle. Huddling keeps them warm.' Ask students to write one fact from each card and label it A or B.

Lesson moves

Give pairs two short penguin books and two paper mats labeled by title; have them draw one fact from each book on its mat.
Read two penguin pages, then ask, 'What did you learn from each page? Point to where you found it.'
Play Fact Match with two penguin passages and fact cards; students place each card beside the passage that supports it.
Use two short zoo signs about penguins; students make a visitor card with one fact from each sign.

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