Kentucky Reading and Writing RL.1.7

ELA1st GradeReading Literature

The Standard

Use a story’s illustrations and details to describe its characters, setting and events.

Kentucky Academic Standards for Reading and Writing (2025) · Integration of Knowledge and Ideas

Teacher's field guide

What Students Need to Do: Students use the words and pictures in a story to tell who is there, where they are, and what happens. They point to details that support their answers.
What Mastery Looks Like: A student can name a character, setting, and event from a story. They use a detail from the words and a detail from a picture to explain what they say.
Common Misconceptions: Students may describe only the picture and miss what the words say happened. They may name a place as an event or guess how a character feels without a clue.
How to Assess It: Reread a page from The Snowy Day that shows Peter making footprints. Ask, “Who is here, where is he, and what is he doing? Show me a clue in the words and a clue in the picture.”

Lesson moves

Lay a clear sleeve over a page of The Snowy Day; students use sticky notes to mark one word clue and one picture clue.
After reading The Snowy Day, ask, “How do the words and picture show where Peter is and what he does?”
Give pairs cards reading “Peter,” “snowy street,” and “Peter makes footprints”; have them sort and explain character, setting, or event.
Show a playground photo with the caption “The child ran to the swings”; students use both to name the person, place, and action.

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