Kentucky Reading and Writing RI.K.6
The Standard
With prompting and support, identify the author and illustrator of a text and define the role of each in presenting the ideas or information in a text.
Kentucky Academic Standards for Reading and Writing (2025) · Craft and Structure
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- With help, students find the author and illustrator of an information book. They tell which person wrote the words and which person made the pictures.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student points to the names on the cover and says who wrote the words and who made the pictures. They can show how a sentence and a picture each teach something about the topic.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may think the author is the person reading the book aloud. They may think the illustrator writes the words, or that the pictures are only decoration.
How to Assess It
- Show a page that says 'A frog starts as an egg,' with a drawing of frog eggs and the credits 'Words by Mia. Pictures by Leo.' Read the credits aloud, then ask, 'What did Mia make? What did Leo make?'
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs a frog fact page labeled 'Words by Mia' and 'Pictures by Leo'; have them point to each person's work.
Show a frog fact page and ask, 'What do the words tell us, and what does the picture show us?'
Play 'Who made it?' by showing frog sentences and drawings; children hold up an 'author' or 'illustrator' card.
Read the credits in an illustrated library book about animals, then find a sentence and a picture made by the named people.
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