Kentucky Reading and Writing RI.6.9
The Standard
Compare and contrast how two or more authors present similar events.
Kentucky Academic Standards for Reading and Writing (2025) · Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students read two accounts of the same event and find what both writers say happened. They compare the details and words each writer uses, then explain what each writer focuses on.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can name a similarity and a difference between the accounts. They can point to a phrase in each text and explain how it shows each writer's focus.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may compare only what happened, not how the writers tell it. They may assume different details mean one writer is wrong, or describe a writer's tone without citing any words.
How to Assess It
- Exit ticket: A principal writes, 'Rain made travel unsafe, so we canceled the museum trip'; a student writes, 'We missed the exhibits we had waited weeks to see.' Ask students what each writer focuses on and which words show it.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs two short accounts of a canceled field trip; have them highlight shared facts in yellow and each writer's unique details in blue.
Ask: 'Why might the principal focus on safety while a student focuses on missed exhibits?' Require one phrase from each account.
Play Detail Detective: read paired sentences about the trip, and have teams match each sentence to its writer using word choice.
Compare a school district weather closure notice with a local news report of the same closure; list what each includes and leaves out.
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