Kentucky Reading and Writing RL.1.1
The Standard
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 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
- With a teacher's help, students ask and answer questions about what happens in a story. They use words or pictures to figure out something the story does not say outright. They point to a clue that supports their idea.
What Mastery Looks Like
- After a read-aloud, a student asks who, what, or where and answers using a story detail. When a character shivers and puts on a coat, the student says the character is cold and names those clues.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may answer from their own experience instead of the story. They may repeat a detail without making an inference, or make a guess without naming a clue.
How to Assess It
- Read aloud: 'Mia put on her boots, grabbed her umbrella, and stepped around puddles.' Ask, 'What did Mia grab? What is the weather probably like? Which words helped you decide?'
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Read 'Thunder boomed; the dog hid under the bed'; give pairs dog and bed cutouts to show where it went and why.
Read 'Sam frowned at the empty cookie plate'; ask partners, 'How does Sam feel, and which words tell you?'
Play question toss after a read-aloud: whoever catches the beanbag asks a who or where question, and a partner points to the answer.
After reading 'Joey packed rain boots for recess,' show a photo of a wet playground; ask why boots would help and which clue supports it.
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