Kentucky Reading and Writing RL.1.6

ELA1st GradeReading Literature

The Standard

With prompting and support, identify who is telling the story at various points in a text.

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

Teacher's field guide

What Students Need to Do: Students listen to or read a story and identify whose voice they hear in different lines. They use clues like quotation marks and words such as “said” to separate a character’s speech from the narrator’s words.
What Mastery Looks Like: A student can point to a line told by the narrator and a line spoken by a character. They name the character and show what helped them decide.
Common Misconceptions: Students may think the character in the picture tells every sentence. They may also mistake a character saying “I” for the narrator telling the story.
How to Assess It: Read: “Mia opened the box. ‘I found a frog!’ she said. Ben laughed.” Ask, “Who tells us Mia opened the box? Who says ‘I found a frog’? Who tells us Ben laughed?”

Lesson moves

Give pairs three paper strips with narration and character speech; have them sort the strips under cards labeled Narrator and Character.
Read “Sam shut the gate. ‘Wait for me!’ called Lee.” Ask, “Who tells us Sam shut the gate, and who calls out?”
Play Narrator or Character: read short lines aloud and have students hold up an N or C card for each one.
Show a school news blurb with a student quote; ask who reports what happened and who speaks in the quote.

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