Kentucky Reading and Writing RI.K.10
The Standard
With prompting and support through listening comprehension, routinely and flexibly develop and apply background knowledge along with a variety of comprehension strategies to understand grade-appropriate, complex informational text.
Kentucky Academic Standards for Reading and Writing (2025) · Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Listen to informational books read aloud and connect new facts to what they already know. Use pictures, questions, and another listen to make sense of confusing parts.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A child can explain what a book taught about seed growth and point to a picture or recall words that support the answer. When confused, they ask a question or use a diagram to check their thinking.
Common Misconceptions
- Some children guess from what they know about plants and miss a new fact in the book. Others name what is in a picture but cannot explain what the book says about it.
How to Assess It
- After reading a page about roots aloud, ask each child, “What do roots do? Show me a picture detail or tell me words you heard that helped you know.”
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Let children handle dry beans and a sprouted bean, share what they notice, then read a seed growth book and revisit their predictions.
Pause at the book’s root diagram and ask, “What does a root do? What in the picture or words helped you?”
Reread two pages, then play “Picture, Words, or Both”: children point to where they found each answer about roots and stems.
Place a bean in a clear bag with a damp paper towel; each day, compare its changes with the book’s growth diagram.
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