Kentucky Reading and Writing RI.2.1

ELA2nd GradeReading Informational Text

The Standard

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.

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

Teacher's field guide

What Students Need to Do: Students ask and answer who, what, where, when, why, and how questions about informational text. They use clues in the text to explain ideas the author does not say directly.
What Mastery Looks Like: A student finds words in the text that answer a question. They can make a reasonable inference and point to a clue that supports it.
Common Misconceptions: Students may call any guess an inference without finding a clue in the text. They may answer a why question with a detail that only tells what happened.
How to Assess It: Put this on an exit ticket: 'Beavers pile branches across streams, creating deep pools around their homes.' Ask students how beavers change the stream and why a deep pool might help them, then have them underline a clue for each answer.

Lesson moves

Give pairs a short animal article and question cards; have them clip each card beside the sentence that helps answer it.
After reading a paragraph about beaver dams, ask, 'Why might beavers build near water? Which words helped you decide?'
Play clue match: teams match four questions about an animal article to sentences that support their answers.
Read a garden sign that says 'Close the gate to keep rabbits out'; ask what might happen if rabbits enter.

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