Kentucky Reading and Writing RL.1.5

ELA1st GradeReading Literature

The Standard

Identify differences between the structures of stories, poems and dramas.

Kentucky Academic Standards for Reading and Writing (2025) · Craft and Structure

Teacher's field guide

What Students Need to Do: Students tell stories, poems, and plays apart by looking at how each is set up. They point to events in a story, lines in a poem, or speaker names in a play to explain their choice.
What Mastery Looks Like: Given three short texts, a student names each type and points to a clue on the page. They can explain why a script with speaker names is a play, not a story with dialogue.
Common Misconceptions: Students may think every poem rhymes, or call any rhyming story a poem. They may mistake quoted speech in a story for a play, missing the speaker names before each part.
How to Assess It: Give students three slips: a short story about a lost hat, a poem printed in short lines, and a script with lines labeled 'Mia:' and 'Sam:'. Ask them to label each slip and circle one clue that helped.

Lesson moves

Give pairs a story card, poem card, and play card; have them sort the cards and circle a page clue on each.
Read a short poem and a two-person script aloud; ask, 'Which page tells us who speaks, and how can you tell?'
Play clue match with cards marked 'events,' 'poem lines,' and 'speaker names'; students pair each clue with a printed text.
Bring a picture book, a poetry book, and a school play script; students mark one page clue in each with a sticky note.

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