Kentucky Reading and Writing RI.K.1
The Standard
With prompting and support, ask and answer explicit questions about key concepts and details, and make 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 This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Children listen to a short nonfiction text and look at its pictures with the teacher. They ask and answer questions about what it says. They use a word or picture clue to make a sensible guess.
What Mastery Looks Like
- With a prompt, a child asks a question about the text and answers another using a detail from it. The child makes a simple guess and points to a clue that supports it.
Common Misconceptions
- Some children answer from what they already know instead of checking the page. Others give a guess as if the text stated it, or point to a picture without explaining how it helps.
How to Assess It
- Read aloud: “A polar bear has thick fur. It walks on snow and ice.” Ask each child to pose one question about the bear, name what it has, and explain why its fur may help there.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs a short polar bear fact card and photos of fur and ice; have them match photos to words and ask each other a question.
Read “A penguin keeps its egg on its feet in the cold,” then ask, “Why might it hold the egg there?”
Play question swap with two-sentence animal cards: partners ask a fact question, answer it, then make a guess using a picture clue.
Read a weather report that says “Rain today”; ask what weather it predicts and why someone might take an umbrella.
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