Kentucky Reading and Writing RI.K.2
The Standard
With prompting and support, orally recognize key details from an informational text to demonstrate understanding of the central idea of a text.
Kentucky Academic Standards for Reading and Writing (2025) · Key Ideas and Details
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What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Children listen to a short nonfiction book and say what it mainly teaches. With questions and pictures for help, they name facts that fit that main point.
What Mastery Looks Like
- After a book about plant needs, a child says plants need water and sunlight to grow. They point to the roots taking in water and the sun shining on leaves as clues.
Common Misconceptions
- Children may call the book 'about flowers' when it explains what plants need to grow. They may name a flower's color as a key detail, even though it does not explain what plants need.
How to Assess It
- Show a drawing of roots, leaves, and the sun. Read aloud, 'Roots take in water. Leaves get sunlight. Water and sunlight help plants grow,' then ask, 'What is this mostly about? What detail tells you?'
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Read a page on plant needs, then have children water a potted plant and point to the picture that shows its need for water.
Ask, 'What is this plant book mostly about, and which two pictures help you know?'
Lay out water, sun, toy, and shoe cards; children pick two that match the book and explain each choice aloud.
At a classroom window, ask children to spot sunlight on a plant and name one other need they heard in the book.
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Related Standards
- RI.1.2
With prompting and support, recognize key details from an informational text to demonstrate understanding of the central idea of a text.
- RL.1.2
With prompting and support, recognize key details from a literary text to demonstrate understanding of the author’s message, lesson learned and/or moral.
- RL.1.1
With prompting and support, ask and answer explicit questions about key ideas and details, and make and support logical inferences to construct meaning from the...
- RL.K.2
With prompting and support, orally recognize key details from a literary text to demonstrate understanding of the lesson in the story.
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