Kentucky Reading and Writing RI.2.5
The Standard
Identify and describe informational text structures, including sequence/chronological and descriptive structures, and describe the logical connection between particular sentences and paragraphs in a text and how they contribute to the overall structure.
Kentucky Academic Standards for Reading and Writing (2025) · Craft and Structure
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What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students recognize when nonfiction tells events in time order or describes a topic by its features. They explain how sentences connect and how paragraphs work together to organize the text.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Students can tell why a seed-growth passage uses time order and a tree passage groups facts by features. They can explain how a sentence adds to its paragraph and how the next paragraph continues the description or moves to the next event.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may mistake a list of features for a sequence just because the facts appear in order. They may treat a new paragraph as a new topic, even when it adds another feature or continues the next step.
How to Assess It
- Exit ticket: Give students this passage: “First, a seed grows roots. Next, a stem rises. Then, leaves open. Finally, a flower blooms.” Ask them to name the structure and explain how “Then, leaves open” connects the two paragraphs.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Cut apart sentences about a plant’s growth and features; have pairs sort them, then tape each set into two paragraphs.
Project the seed passage and ask, “Why does the second paragraph begin with ‘Then, leaves open’?”
Give pairs cards describing a sandwich and steps for making one; have them sort the cards and explain how two sentences connect.
Compare a seed catalog’s plant description with its planting steps; have students circle features, number steps, and explain each section’s organization.
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Related Standards
- RI.7.5
Analyze the structure an author uses to organize a text, including how the different sections contribute to the whole and to the development of the ideas.
- C.2.2.e
Use grade-appropriate transitions to develop text structure in sentences and paragraphs.
- RI.3.5
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