Kentucky Reading and Writing RI.2.3
The Standard
Describe the connection between individuals, historical events, scientific ideas or concepts or steps in technical procedures over the course 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 track how people, events, ideas, or steps connect as they read a nonfiction text. They explain whether one part comes after another, causes a change, or depends on an earlier step.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Given a short text about a seed, a student explains how water helps it sprout and what happens next. They use details from the text, not just the pictures.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may list events in order without explaining how they connect. They may also assume that one event caused another just because it happened first.
How to Assess It
- Give students this passage: "Mia put a dry bean in a wet paper towel. The bean soaked up water. Its coat split open. A root grew out." Ask, "How did the water help the root grow? Use two details from the passage."
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs four picture cards and a short bean-growth passage; have them order the cards and label each arrow with what changed.
Read a short passage about the Wright brothers' glider tests; ask, "How did testing change what they built next?"
Play Connection Match with water-cycle cards and a short passage; partners pair evaporation with condensation and explain the link.
Read a handwashing poster, then have students explain why wetting hands comes before soap and what step follows rinsing.
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