Kentucky Reading and Writing RL.2.2
The Standard
Identify implicit and explicit information from a literary text to determine the author’s message, lesson learned and/or moral, including but not limited to fables and folktales from diverse cultures.
Kentucky Academic Standards for Reading and Writing (2025) · Key Ideas and Details
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What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students find details a story states and clues they must work out. They use those details to name the author's message or lesson. They read fables and folktales from different cultures.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can spot a lesson stated at the end of a fable or explain one the author leaves unstated. They support it with two story events and explain why a different lesson does not fit.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may retell what happened instead of naming a lesson. They may call a guess about a character a stated fact, or choose a lesson that fits only one event.
How to Assess It
- After reading The Lion and the Mouse, ask students to write one lesson the story teaches and two events that support it. Have them mark whether the lesson is stated or inferred.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs event and lesson cards from The Lion and the Mouse; have them sort what the text states from what readers infer.
After reading Anansi and the Pot of Wisdom, ask, 'What does Anansi's son's advice suggest about who can be wise?'
Play Evidence Match: pairs match lesson cards to events from The Lion and the Mouse, then reject one lesson the events do not support.
Describe a younger child finding an older child's lost lunchbox; ask how that help connects to the mouse's actions.
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Related Standards
- RI.2.2
Identify implicit and explicit information from an informational text to determine the central idea of a text.
- RL.3.2
Identify implicit and cite explicit information from a literary text to determine the theme, lesson learned and/or moral, including but not limited to fables, f...
- RL.1.2
With prompting and support, recognize key details from a literary text to demonstrate understanding of the author’s message, lesson learned and/or moral.
- RI.3.2
Identify implicit and cite explicit information from an informational text to determine the central idea of a text.
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